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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.
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The Medieval worldview looked like God's greatness and man's nothingness. Religion was a very big must. Mystical, witches, wizards, etc.
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The people in the Renaissance answer the big questions
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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.
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The world looks like Adventure, emotion, decision, revolution, less formal, mystical, spiritual, but not religious, through the glasses of the Romantic worldview.
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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.
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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.
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Postmodern: Nobody has answers, no universal laws or truth, respect for other worldviews.
Post-Postmodern: Technology may have the answers, technology is trusted.
