HPS100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Agnosticism, Cenozoic, Teleology
4 Dec 2016
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A worldview is characterized by its metaphysical components. Hylomorphism, pluralism, teleology, plenism, heterogeneity, finite universe, monotheism are some of the core metaphysical beliefs implicit in the aristotelian-medieval worldview. Mechanicism, dualism, action by contact, dualistic determinism, plenism, homogeneity, Dynamism, dualism, action at a distance, dualistic determinism, vacuism, homogeneity, Infinite universe, monotheism are some of the core metaphysical beliefs implicit in the. Wave-particle duality, materialism, probabilistic determinism, agnosticism are some of the contemporary metaphysical assumptions. A transition from one worldview to the next normally involves changes in our core metaphysical beliefs. There is (cid:374)o u(cid:374)i(cid:448)ersal defi(cid:374)itio(cid:374) for (cid:373)etaph(cid:455)si(cid:272)s. the follo(cid:449)i(cid:374)g is a (cid:449)orki(cid:374)g defi(cid:374)itio(cid:374) . Metaphysics: a set of views about the world taken as a whole. The above are just some of the problems that metaphysics is concerned with. Every worldview provides some kind of answer, at least to some of such questions. You do(cid:374)"t really need to have clear-cut answers to all of those questions to have a worldview.
