Answer to Question #233023 in Philosophy for Karabo

Question

Explain the nature and characteristics of a worldview according to the text of Olthuis?

Answer 1

Olthuis defines the word worldview as a set of essential philosophies through which individuals view the world and their ability and upcoming in it. It should be noted as the informative and integrative outline by which disorder and order are settled, the routine by which sanity is followed and achieved. Olthuis saw worldview to be having the following characteristics;

One, he sees worldview as not only a worldview but a view of how the world should be.

Two, Olthuis features worldview as functions in concrete human existence consecutively as a vision of life and a vision for life.

Lastly, Olthuis sees worldview as a contemporary crisis that is people may suffer either because their inherited worldview is inadequate.