The Nature and Necessity of Worldviews | Dallas Willard at UCLA 

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I read that his last words on this earth were," Thank You."

amazing talk

Mark Twain said it is not what we dont know that will hurt us. It is what we know but aint so that will hurt us.

An excellent presentation and quality Q&A on the unavoidable role of one's assumptions and so world view upon any form of inquiry. Dallas points out there is an integral & enduring relation between assumptions one holds or considers and corresponding notions one may explore actively of reality, of truth, and pursuit of knowledge, in any field of human inquiry. These fundamental underlying questions as to reality, truth, and knowledge are legitimate forms of inquiry -- or not. One's assumptions have decisive consequences for what follows in anyone's inquiry. Dallas points out how social constructions of the last century have arbitrarily given priority to CONCLUSIONS (or where one comes out from basic assumptions and so what type of evidence is selected) over LOGICAL INQUIRY that are grounded in an open-ended-evidence-based approach to inquiry. At the level of world view in any age, inquiry is framed by how one delimits what counts as parameters and the depth of human experience and existence. Correspondingly, this oft-disguised inversion of conclusion and logical inquiry is frequently used to leave the opposition speechless (or label them irrelevant). It is through the seldom articulated yet oft-pervasive inversion today that current events are typically interpreted. The consequences of this inversion is far-reaching. It is to effectively CLOSE OFF inquiry. Dallas expressly points out practical consequences that apply to everything from questions in the academy and in life that may be asked to arguments for war, fatuously made to support conclusions already formed. In no case, does the inversion problem go away for those who continue to think with their body, mind, and spirit. Elsewhere Dallas points out there is no ism able to answer the important questions for us. Each person may choose to face core questions -- that recurs at each dimension of our lives directly -- or not. In short, this INVERSION of conclusion and authentic inquiry is a principal challenge -- at every dimension of life -- to the age in which we live. Indeed, the approach actually taken, beginning at the elemental level of world view present at any time, will be up to living persons in every generation for as far as one can see into the future.

Not all world views are good. Especially in this day and age. People the world over have a world view that is based on wrong, that which is bad, and that which is immoral. You can tell by the way they live their lives, and what they say, and believe in. It is called thinking the U.N. way. It is Godless. What is necessary is to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ for a lost and dying world.

La verità è in Gesù e c’è la necessità del dono della fede! Gesù è verità e la vita!questo dono va chiesto con umiltà!!! Amen

How in the world do I get to hear Dr. Khun's talk? can anyone find that video?

What's Dr Khun's first name? I want to be able to google him....

06:54 one's tempted to say all of the laws of physics.

How can you proof that worldviews almost never manifest intelectually? Whitout that Proof the presentation falls apart.

@shedininja001 in short- everyone has a world view - no one is immune to this , but you utterly failed to address the real question here- sidesteping it with "what physics" (okay lets say phyiscs , sure - ) how about the physics of once an object is at rest it stays at rest, or the physics of decay? These pretty much point to the same thing as bioligy did - unless you BELIVE that miricals are possilbe and actual, you cant afferm that the resuration happened. Those that did belive did

@shedininja001 but that really shows the flaw- you assume due to YOUR worldview that the people (whoever they were we do not know!) who wrote the bible were - telling the truth, (and not what they THOUGHT OR BELIVED WAS TRUE) and that they are somehow not infuanced by there world view. Whats good for the goose is good for the gander. you failed on a critical level to answer this question. SHAME ON YOU.