"Construction of Worldviews"
p2p "worldview" as "integrating worldviews" ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_view#Construction_of_worldviews <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_view#Construction_of_worldviews>According to Apostel, a worldview is an ontology<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology>, or a descriptive model <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_model> of the world. It should comprise these six elements: 1. An explanation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explanation> of the world 2. A futurology <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurology>, answering the question "where are we heading?" 3. Values, answers to ethical <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical> questions: "What should we do?" 4. A praxeology <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxeology>, or methodology<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodology>, or theory of action <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_(philosophy)>.: "How should we attain our goals?" 5. An epistemology <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology>, or theory of knowledge <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge>. "What is true<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth> and false?" 6. An etiology <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiology>. A constructed world-view should contain an account of its own "building blocks," its origins and construction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_Leo_Apostel_for_Interdisciplinary_Studie... The *Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies* (CLEA) is an interdisciplinary research centre founded at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrije_Universiteit_Brussel> in 1995 with the aim to construct *integrating worldviews<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_view> *.
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Dante-Gabryell Monson