GOVT 200 - EXAM 1 VAN ALLEN
Be able to identify the five significant worldviews which have impacted the western tradition of
intellectual thought. - correct answer ✔✔1. Post- moderatism - truth is relative
2. Rationalism
3. Christianity - seen and non-seen world
4. Romanticism - I feel that..
5. Process philosophy
What are the main components of a worldview as to the primary questions and the four philosophical
dilemmas, as well as the basic definitions of each? - correct answer ✔✔Anthropological - what's the
origin nature of man
Cosmological - study of the cosmos, why do we exists
Ontology - origin, where did we come from
Epistemology - knowledge
Teleology - what's our purpose
Axiology - value
What is the relationship between the primary questions of a worldview, and the four philosophical
dilemmas? - correct answer ✔✔You need to answer the four philosophical dilemmas to answer the
primary questions.
What is meant by the phrase "Ideas have consequences?" With this, how does this phrase capture the
relationship between the internal and the external realms of reality? - correct answer ✔✔The internal
produces the external - you can't separate your internal thoughts with your external actions
What is meant by the phrase "institutional structure and procedure of life?" How does it come into
existence or how is it actualized? Be able to identify the seven areas or frameworks of life. - correct
answer ✔✔The way in which we structure our lives around, the interact with each other by all being
affected by the worldview
How we live out a worldview- what our external looks like
1. Civil social
2. Education
3. Arts
4. Law
5. Economic
6. Ethisastical
7. International relations
In its essence, the Biblical Christian Worldview incorporates what sort of understanding of liberty? What
form of civil government? What type of economic system? - correct answer ✔✔Liberty - ordered liberty
- liberty ordered under God
Civil- government - Limited civil government - flowing out of the sovereignty of God
Economic system - free market (independent free market) - (capitalism)
Be able to identify the proper definition of 'jurisdiction.' - correct answer ✔✔Lawful use of lawful
authority
The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution represents its interpretive key. Be able to identify the six great
objects of the Preamble. - correct answer ✔✔1. Form a more perfect union
2. Establishing justice
3. Tranquility
4. Providing for the common defense
5. Prompting the general welfare
6. Securing the blessings for liberty
1. I will be duplicating our discussion of specific statements claiming constitutionality, and from which
you will be required to identify the correct options and why, as well as their implications. In this regard,
you will want to rehearse your understanding of Article 1, Section 1, clause 1, and, Article 1, section 8,
clauses 1-18, of the U.S. Constitution. With this, what is the relationship between Article 1, Section 8,
clause 1, and the subsequent clauses, 2-18? ( the planfet) - correct answer ✔✔Clause 1 - what congress
needs to do, what it should be.
2-18 - specific ways congress can do that
Review Ravi Zacharias' "What is a Worldview?" linked for you in your first power point presentation, and
be able to answer questions relative to testing the viability of a worldview. In this regard, what does Ravi
recommend we consider? - correct answer ✔✔Be logically consistent
Be empirically adequate (Facts need to match reality)
Experientially relevant
answers cohere together
What are the four characteristics of worldviews? - correct answer ✔✔1. Lasting
2. Livable
3. Factual
4. Explainable
Be able to identify the levels of application of a worldview. - correct answer ✔✔1. Abstraction Think
through things
2. Application - construct reality
3. Eclectic
4. Conglomerate - acceptic the worldview
What is the difference between 'rationality' and 'rationalism'? With this, what is the relationship
between reason/rationality, and revelation? - correct answer ✔✔Rationality - use of reason -
rationalism- reason absolutized
What famous work did Aurelius Augustine (354-430 A.D.) write which dominated European Christendom
for close to 800 years? - correct answer ✔✔City of God
Consider the institutional structure and procedure of Biblical Christianity and be able to identify what it
is. Is it a holy commonwealth approach, a democratic approach, or a social approach to man and life? -
correct answer ✔✔Democratic - the law of the majority - the majority wants law, it becomes majority
approach to man in life
the social approach - socialism - nothing is private
Holy commonwealth - all phereses of life are oriented towards God
Deism - correct answer ✔✔believing in god as the creator
presupposition - correct answer ✔✔you atomically think its true
dichotomy - correct answer ✔✔division into two
Antithesis - correct answer ✔✔two things in contrast w/ each other
Theocentrism - correct answer ✔✔center of God
To make absolute - correct answer ✔✔absolutize
1. How is the Biblical Christian Worldview basically defined? With this, what is its distilled down version
relative to the basic philosophical dilemmas? - correct answer ✔✔Ontology - God created all
Epistemology - God revealed truth to us through scriptures
Axiology - God is where we derive our value
Teleogy - God is in control
What is the life-orientation of the Biblical Christian worldview in contrast to a rationalistic life-
orientation? - correct answer ✔✔Center of biblical is God and Rationalistic is mans reason
Why are there transitions between intellectual traditions? In other words, why do these shifts occur?
This is another way of asking "why do worldviews slowly fade in their attraction and staying power, and
eventually replaced by other worldviews?" - correct answer ✔✔They don't last, don't answer the
questions, unpopular, people start second guessing
Be able to associate Francis Schaeffer's 'humpbacked bridge metaphor' with shifts in worldviews.
(the bridge is the worldview) - correct answer ✔✔As times goes on will your worldview be able to hold
the weight of moderatism
When the pressures of life come to strong the foundation will crumble
The idea that there is an intimate, in fact, inextricable connection between the socio-moral condition of
a people and its ultimate fate is one of the main pillars upon which stands the entire biblical
interpretation of history - correct answer ✔✔Actions of consequences
A culture or an individual with a weak base can stand only when the pressure on it is not too great. As an
illustration, let us think of a Roman bridge. The Romans built little humpbacked bridges over many of the
streams of Europe. People and wagons went over these structures safely for centuries, for two millennia.
But if people today drove heavily loaded trucks over these bridges, they would break. It is this way with
the lives and value systems of individuals and cultures when they have nothing stronger to build on than
their own limitedness, their own finiteness. They can stand when pressures are not too great, but when
pressures mount, if then they do not have a sufficient base, they crash - just as a Roman bridge would
cave in under the weight of a modern six-wheeled truck. Culture and freedoms of people are fragile.
Without a sufficient base, when such pressures come only time is needed — and often not a great -
correct answer ✔✔Bridge
Moreover, excluding transcendent values places societies beyond the constraint of moral limits. Society
is not subject to the moral law; it makes the moral law. If there are no absolutes, the society can
presumably construct any values that it pleases and is itself subject to none. All such issues are only
matters of power. Without moral absolutes, power becomes arbitrary. Since there is no basis for moral
persuasion or rational argument, the side with the most power will win. Government becomes nothing
more than the sheer exercise of unlimited power, restrained neither by law nor by reason. ...
To be sure, most postmodernists today do not explicitly advocate totalitarianism. On the contrary, they
intend their positions to be liberating, freeing oppressed groups from the "one truth" proclaimed by
oppressive cultural forces. And yet it is difficult to see how their premises could in any way support a free
society. Cle - correct answer ✔✔We need Moral absolutes. It's impossible not it
the options of Ontology - correct answer ✔✔supernaturalism and naturalism
The options of Epistemology - correct answer ✔✔reason, revelation, intuition
The options of Axiology - correct answer ✔✔Materialism, humansim, Theism
The options of Teleology - correct answer ✔✔Kingdom of god vs kingdom of earth/man
3 basic presuppositions - correct answer ✔✔1. the kingdom of God is spiritual
2. Man in prophet, priest and king under sovereign God
3. There is no interposition between God and Man
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