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Write an 800-1,000 word essay on your personal worldview. Briefly discuss the various possible meanings of the term "spirituality," and your understanding of the concepts of pluralism, scientism, and postmodernism. Primarily, address the following seven basic worldview questions:
- What is prime reality?
- What is the nature of the world around you?
- What is a human being?
- What happens to a person at death?
- Why is it possible to know anything at all?
- How do people know what is right or wrong?
- What is the meaning of human history?
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Running Head: PERSONAL WORLDVIEW INVENTORY
Personal Worldview Inventory
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In essence, people give distinct meanings to various concepts or aspects of life. For
instance, the term spirituality is defined by various experts in different ways. Christina Puchalski
is an expert that gives a different meaning of spirituality from others. She defines spirituality as
the aspect of humanity that enables people to seek and express the meaning of how they
experience their connection with others, the self, and a sacred being. However, Mario
Beauregard and Denyse O’Leary define spirituality as an experience that an individual has where
he or she believes to be brought into contact with the divine. Some other people claim that
spirituality is a dimension in which individuals try to be in harmony with nature.
Additionally, postmodernism is also another aspect of humanity. It is a philosophical
movement that is mostly against the philosophical assumptions made about the modern period
(Beville, 2009). Postmodernism is against any assumptions made regarding the Western history
narrat...