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A Christian Worldviewand the

Worldview of August Comte


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Scriptural Foundation

Romans 12:2Do not conform any longer

to the pattern of this world, but be

transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Then you will be able to test and approve

what od!s will is"" his good, pleasing andperfect will.


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Worldview Definition

1.A world view is a set of presuppositions #orassumptions$ which we hold #consciously orsubconsciously$ about the basic ma%eup of our world.

&.'veryone has a world view, whether he or she cane(plain it or not.

). *t can be li%ened to a pair of glasses through which oneviews the world.

+. *t is important to have the right prescription, or realitywill be distorted.

.-umanity in the modem age are faced with asupermar%et of world views all of them claim to

represent reality.


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Why Is A Worldview

Important?

1.The answer is, /*t sets the boundaries within

which people live their lives.0&.ur worldview draws a line around our lives

and we live within those boundaries.

).We recogni2e that there are places outside ofthe boundaries, and that some people dooperate there. 3ut that space is understoodto be out of bounds and anyone operatingthere is believed to be living illegitimately.


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Importance of a Road ap

*mportance of a Worldview


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!eed Road ap for "ife

1.Worldview4ife5s 6oad 7ap

&.ur worldview determines our89 Decisions

9 ur life goals

9 What we thin% will ma%e us happy

9 -ow we spend our money

9 -ow we treat others


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What is y Worldview?#veryone already has $Worldview%

:ic%ed up from;9 :arents

9 eighbors

9 ?chool

9 T@, 7ovies, 7usic,3oo%s = 7aga2ines


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&idden Worldviews

All around us8

9 'anon8 /Image is everything.0

*mage is more important than substance

9 Sprite8 /Thirst is everything. Obey your thirst0


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!eed to 'onsider

All Worldviews are noteual

Bust li%e there are goodbad road maps;

;there are8

9 ood Worldview vs. 3ad Worldview

9Accurate Worldview vs. *naccurateWorldview


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+uestions of "ife


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Worldview atters,

/* am absolutely convincedthat the gas chambers of

Auschwit2, Treblin%a, and7aidane% were ultimatelyprepared not in some ministryor other in 3erlin, but rather atthedes)s and in lecturehalls of nihilistic scientistsand philosophers.0

F6avi Gacharias, Can Man Live without God?,p.&H

*deasConseuences

@i%tor


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!ihilistic Worldview

!ihilism8 A worldview that denies any obLective

ground of truth and especially of moral truths

-itler5s boast8 /I reed Germany rom the stupid anddegrading a!!a"ies o "ons"ien"e and mora!ity #.

$e wi!! train young peop!e beore whom the wor!dwi!! tremb!e. I want young peop!e "apab!e o vio!en"e

% imperious &dominant', re!ent!ess and "rue!.0

F6avi Gacharias, Can Man Live without God?,p.&)H


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any Worldviews

Atheism

'(istentialism

-edonism

-umanism

7aterialism >ihilism

:antheism

:olytheism

:ostmodernism

:ragmatism

?ocialism Theism


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#-amples of Worldviews

!aturalism" /The Cosmos is a!! that is or ever wasor ever wi!! be.0 #Carl ?agan, astronomer$

#-istentialism./it is meaning!ess that we are born(it is meaning!ess that we die.0 9 #Bean :aul ?artre,author$

&edonism./$hoever dies with the most toys wins0"Anonymous

Contradi"ting wor!dviews cannota!! be "orre"t)


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"aw of /hree 0hases

3ased on his discussions with -enri de ?aint"?imon, Comte developed his theory of auniversal law, which was at wor% in allsocieties and sciences, and through whichprogress is inevitable.

-e called this the 4aw of Three :hases.


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"aw of /hree 0hases

The Theological

9 The pre"'nlightenment phase in which

humanity5s place in society was referenced

to od or nature, in which the divine will

subsumed human rights, and humanity

blindly believed in whatever they were

taught by their ancestors.


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"aw of /hree 0hases

The Metaphysical9 The post"'nlightenment humanist phase,

referenced to e(planations by impersonal

abstract thought, and where the universal

rights of humanity are most important.


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"aw of /hree 0hases

The Positive

9 The final scientific stage in which the search

for absolute %nowledge is abandoned,

scientific e(planation is based on

observation, e(periment and comparison.


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Ronald & !ash

Worldviews

Deity

7etaphyics

'pistemology

'thics Anthropology


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Deity " 3eliefs About od

What does your worldview say aboutodE

Does od e(istE *s there one odE 7any godsE What is od5s natureE :ersonal and

lovingE An impersonal forceE >T'8 Whatever your belief about the

concept we call od, it will shape yourtotal worldview.


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7etaphyics " 3eliefs

Concerning Mltimate 6eality

*s the universe eternal or did it have abeginningE

Was it created by an almighty, transcendentod who continues to sustain it, or was it aproduct of mere chanceE

*s the natural world all there isE

*s there design and purpose in the universe,or is it a product of chaos and chanceE Are supernatural events possibleE Do spirit beings e(istE


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'pistemology "

3eliefs About Nnowledge

*s %nowledge about the world possibleE *s sense e(perience reliableE

What is the place of reason in discovering%nowledgeE Can we %now odE *s truth absolute or relativeE Can faith and reason coe(istE >T'8 Oour views about how one gains

%nowledge are crucial to your development

of a coherent worldview.


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'thics "

3eliefs About 6ight = Wrong

What is the basis upon which one determines

whether a certain act is morally right or wrongE

*s morality a cultural factor or a universal valueE

Are moral values obLective or subLectiveE

Are we accountable for our actionsE

>T'8 -ow you answer these uestions will

reveal your ethical beliefs and inform your

worldview.


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Anthropology "

3eliefs About -uman >ature

Are humans merely physical beings and theproduct of evolutionary processes, or arethey comple(, created beings possessingbody, soul, and spiritE

Are they determined or freeE *s this life all there isE

Do humans survive after deathE Will they spend eternity in heaven or hellE What is the human nature li%eE

What is the PvalueP of human lifeE


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Comte and Deity

At the age of fourteen he declared he had/naturally ceased believing in od0 and hadalready /gone through all the essential stagesof the revolutionary spirit.0

-is reLection of both the Catholicism and

royalism of his parents resulted in a difficultrelationship with his family throughout his life.


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Comte and Deity

-owever, when one loo%s at the ideas ofthe mature Comte it is clear that he wasmore influenced by his upbringing than hewould have cared to admit 9 his aim toimpose order through his -igh Church ofscience #with him at the head$ has e(plicitlin%s to both his Catholic bac%ground andhis father5s character and is a far cry fromthe hatred he e(pressed for the dictatorialnew 'mperor >apoleon in his youth.


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Comte and Deity

Comte5s :ositivism can be considered as ahumanist philosophy in that it placed humanityat the centre of its concerns, and of coursehad no place for od.

-owever, it could have been further from'nlightenment humanism, even though that

had been his start point. -e reLecteddemocracy and freedom of the individual infavour of a powerful elite who would rule withan iron hand.


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Comte and Deity

nly the enlightened few would have any sayin his new society. -is 6eligion of -umanity,with himself in role of pope, would tell people

what to thin% and how to act. -is proposedstructure for spiritual leadership was so muchli%e that of the Catholic church, that T.-. -u(leydescribed his later ideas as QCatholicism minus

Christianity.5 :ositivism ceased to be a philosophy and was

transformed into a secular religion, in which theworship of humanity supplanted that of the

Christian od.


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Comte and 7etaphyics

-e saw the scientific method as replacing

7etaphysics and theology in the history ofthought, and believed that 7etaphysics

should be replaced by a hierarchy of

sciences, from mathematics at the base tosociology at the top.


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Comte and 'pistemology

Comte!s main legacy is his theory of :ositivism,the idea that the only authentic %nowledge isscientific %nowledge, and that such %nowledge

can only come from positive affirmation oftheories through strict scientific method.

Throughout the later wor%s, Comte continued tomaintain that the scientific method was the besttool in the search for answers about all areas of%nowledge, but increasingly emphasi2ed thatmorality should be humanity5s central concern incontinuing to progress.


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Comte and 'thics


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Comte and 'thics

-e was one of the better %nown proponents of

Altruism, a term he coined #or at least

populari2ed$ himself, and he believed thatindividuals had a moral obligation of to serve

others and place their interests above one!s

own. -e opposed the idea of individual rights, on

the grounds that they were not consistent with

this ethical obligation.


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Comte and Anthropology

Throughout his wor%ing life there was a sole primary

concern, and a single overarching principle, which

governed his life and thought, that is, the concern with

resolving the social, political and moral problems

brought on by the


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Comte and Anthropology

Control over ideas would be an essentialelement of the state. Thus education wouldbe a %ey tool, helping to lin% theory andpractice, and teaching people to %now theirplace in the social order.

-e came to believe that the ultimate goal ofhumanity was to learn to worship itself. Tothat end he established the universal religionof humanity and declared himself its highpriest.


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'ompte4s Worldview

Saint Au*ustine

9 -is use of the philosophy of :lato.

/homas A5uinas9 -is use of the philosophy of Aristotle.

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