Presupposition

In this paper I will attempt to discuss and articulate the characteristics and consistency of a biblical worldview. In addition, I will also attempt to contrast the characteristics and consistency of 3 other worldviews that we have been previously examined in this course. Now before one can even begin discussing the characteristics of a worldview, we must first attempt to define what a world view is and whether or not a worldview is applicable to all. The Free Dictionary defines worldview as…

SID: 25647359 Time Travel and Backwards Causation This is a paper about time travel; namely, time travel to the past. On the surface, the concept seems saturated in contradictions and inevitable paradoxes, including backwards causation, the grandfather paradox, or time moving in two ways inconsistent with each other. Much of the confusion and contradictions regarding time travel have led many to conclude that time travel is impossible. I’m going to argue that some of these arguments claiming…

The Exclusive Exclusion of Chinese Bi jade As cultural artifacts, bodily adornments manifest expansive historical narratives. When they are worn en masse, they are able to effect the convergence of common cultural identities. Due to their naturally conspicuous and distinctive properties, such items powerfully signify cultural difference to outsiders who do not partake in such traditions. This understanding and perception of cultural difference is governed by prior cultural associations. However,…

has learned that without exception, his earlier grad school teachers all had the same thoughts when considering the validity of the Gospels. He now begins to see “how often their interpretations [are] saturated by unquestioned philosophical presuppositions” (pg. 18). What he means by this is that anytime Jesus’ death is mentioned, they assume that it is an added text and therefore cannot be true, without even attempting to question the validity of what the Gospel…

If archeologists discovered my room after its thousand-year abandonment, they would come to many conclusions about my life and culture. They could assume that I was a religious, educated student who lived in a fortunate family based off of my Christian books, textbooks, and jewelry. The archeologists may conclude that I lived in a culture with the freedom of religion and concern for the earth’s resources based on my Bibles and numerous global warming books. Furthermore, my baby teeth, carved…

Death Swallowed Up In Victory Everyone is familiar with the theme of death. “According to experience, death is the stopping of a behavior, the stopping of expressive movements and of physiological movements and processes…It is a departure, a decease, a negativity to the unknown…a departure without a return”(Levinas). Regardless of belief, death is the one equalizer common to man. There are countless stories attempting to illustrate or explain both the feeling and the nature of death…

The well-known Thai movie that is a good example of portraying women’s oppression and feminism is Jan Dara. The movie is based on a famous Thai erotic novel. The film portrays the story of Jan, a boy who grows up in a house lorded over by Vissanan-decha, his own sadistic and debauched father. Described the story in 1930s and depicted growing pains of Jan, his mother, who is strongly detested by Luang Vissanan-decha, died while giving birth to him. So, Jan lives with his aunt, and he struggles to…

Madeline Neubert Philosophy and Society 11/5/17 A Perfect Society, an Association, and a State: Discussing Aquinas, Kant, and Marx A political system, depending on its’ influences, can shape into a different role for its’ individual members. In the lenses of Thomas Aquinas, Immanuel Kant, and Karl Marx, the different societies in question are founded on different bases of beliefs, needs, and perceptions of the individual. The perfect society, association, or state, for its’ members, differs…

“A worldview is the particular bias in our presuppositions that influences how you look at the world and what we see or expect to see” (Drury). This is a quote from Keith Drury, who explains what a worldview is and how it is formed. I will be explaining my personal worldview as a Christian and how I began to see the world as I do now. I will then be explaining a different worldview from a very popular movie called Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first movie in the Harry Potter series.…

In Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 bestseller, No Country for Old Men, he presents the reader with an exploration of human depravity through the lives of three main characters. While two of these integral characters, Anton Chigurh and Llewelyn Moss, clearly display what society would identify as vice, Shariff Ed Tom Bell is presented as a weathered, virtuous man, who struggles to reconcile himself to the ever-expanding presence of evil in the world. Despite McCarthy’s use of Bell as a type of moral…