The Nemesis Book June 2018
CHAPTER 7
WHAT IS A WORLD VIEW?
“To explain the use of a word, it may well be that the use of the word worldview is merely a shortcut to a concept that contains many elements. Similarly, someone may ask a person whether he or she has any wheels?
What kind of a question is that?
They could ask the question in another way, e.g., do you have a drive train, a differential, axle, bearings, hub, rim, inner tube and a tire? That would be the extended version of the question, “do you have any wheels”?
It cuts to the chase. The meaning of the question is, do you have a car, a bike, or a skateboard to travel with?
Similarly, to ask a person what their worldview is? Is a simple question, of a concept. For the argument made here, referring to a reality-based worldview. ”A reality-based worldview defenced here is logical and rational:
1. Reality. Truth based, factual knowledge about human nature and life on earth.
2. Beliefs. What is True?
3. Values. What is Right?
4. Behavior & habits. What is right behavior?
Why is the right choice is an intelligent choice? Because, it is giving space to the priori wisdom of the Creator of life, and it is giving priority to the right outcome. The right outcome is objectively verifiable. The right outcome is always competed for by many distractions, temptations, and compromise.”
“There need to have absolutes for intelligent decision outcomes, for problem-solving. Artificial intelligence also requires absolute values and absolute definitions. So does mathematics and geometry. 2+2 = 4. A square is a square and circle is a circle.”
“Nobody complains that there are absolutes in mathematics, or absolutes in scientific engineering, especially when purchasing a thing or a machine, or flying overseas at 10,000 meters altitude in a crowded passenger jet. Who cares about the absolutes of engineering? The controlled flight maintained by the precision engineering of aviation technology and human knowledge.
The most common controversial area where people complain about absolutes are the moral ones. They protest to the idea that there are absolute values in human morality.”
Are there such absolutes?
Yes, there are.
Where do they come from?
It comes from the Intelligent mind of the Creator God.
Also from human beings made in the image of God. With an Intellect, consciousness, imagination, will, memory and emotions.
This is how John Locke describes them.
“The law of nature constrains what we can do, even when we are free in the state of nature.”
We are not free to do whatever we feel or desire to do. There have to be constraints in a multi-people society.
What are the constraints?
”The only constraint in the state of nature is, that the rights that we have, we cannot give them up, nor can we take them from someone body else. Under the law of nature, I am not free to take them from someone else”.
(Locke, THIS LAND IS MY LAND, 2009)
Life, liberty or property. Nor am I free to take my own life, liberty or property.
Where does the law of nature constraints come from?
John Locke gives two answers.
“For we, being all the workmanship of one omnipotent, and infinitely wise maker, they are his property, whose workmanship they are, made to last during his, not one another’s pleasure.”
(Locke, THIS LAND IS MY LAND, 2009)
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