Posted: Jan 19, 2019 9:05 pm
Hermit wrote:Looking for examples, Deepak Chopra comes to mind, as does Jordan Peterson. Both will indubitably protest that their respective worldviews are as coherent as any worldview can possibly be, but looking at the assumptions they are based on, I beg to differ.
I agree with this. It occurs to me to ask why a worldview does not just consist of its assumptions. Given the kinds of assumptions that go into founding worldviews, any person with a couple of brain cells to rub together can spin out all the important consequences of those assumptions on a warm summer afternoon sitting on the verandah with a julep.
Here's a worldview: Life is short; eat dessert first. It's maybe not the most morally-upright worldview on offer, but then, it doesn't try to be. This is its assumption: Life is short. There aren't a lot of important consequences to be drawn from that without proliferating entities beyond necessity.
Not that I expect to find out, but I have an idle curiosity how Jayjay will confront that worldview, in order to tell me how atheistic it is by not mentioning god.