I am taking an Intro to Philosophy class later this month and have found this book by Sire excellently written and a useful introduction to worldviews. I hope to summarize the chapters/worldviews, following largely his points, for easier access in the future. I also plan to post these summaries as I go. Here is 'where he is going' in the book as he asks these seven 'basic' questions of the major worldviews considered. The worldviews are considered in historical/logical/progressive order by Sire.
Seven Basic Questions:
(1) What is prime reality--the really real?
(2) What is the nature of external reality, that is, the world around us?
(3) What is a human being?
(4) What happens to a person at death?
(5) Why is it possible to know anything at all?
(6) How do we know what is right and wrong?
(7) What is the meaning of human reality?
--James W. Sire, The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog (Fourth Ed.), 20.
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