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500 BCE
Classical/Greek and Roman Worldview 500 B.C. to 500 A.D.
The world looked like a balance of reason and faith. You needed your emotions, faith, body, and reasoning. They answered the big questions using their faith and reasoning. The Greeks have such a powerful effect on the world because they pretty much started everything. Knowledge was important and powerful. It lead them to discover and invent several things. -
500
Medieval Worldview 500-1500 A.D.
The Medieval worldview looked like God's greatness and man's nothingness. Religion was a very big must. Mystical, witches, wizards, etc. -
Jan 1, 1300
Renaissance Worldview 1300 - 1700 AD
The people in the Renaissance answer the big questions
through a worldview of humanism, and the arts. -
Enlightenment Worldview 1. 1650-1800 AD
The most influential scholars during the Enlightenment were Wollestonecraft, Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant. They shaped the world through their writing, proceeding with personal views of philosophy given in different angles. -
Romantic Worldview 1780-1850 AD
The world looks like Adventure, emotion, decision, revolution, less formal, mystical, spiritual, but not religious, through the glasses of the Romantic worldview. -
Victorian Worldview 1830-1900 AD
The world looks formal, rigid moral code, reaction to romantic worldview, not idealistic, and realistic through the glasses of the Victorian worldview. Dickens = Focus on the poor, their hardships, the difficulties of life. Questioning women’s role in society, religions gains more prominence, pessimistic about life. -
Modern Worldview 1900-1970 AD
Big questions answered in the Modern worldview are viewed much as this, “Make it new”. New art, new rules for anything and everything. Secularism = Religion should not be part of public debates. Big Businesses, big government, man is seen as all powerful. Large institutions are the way to rule in everything. -
Post- and Post Postmodern Worldview 1970-2000, 2000…
Postmodern: Nobody has answers, no universal laws or truth, respect for other worldviews.
Post-Postmodern: Technology may have the answers, technology is trusted.
