The History of The Development and Changes in Forms of Worldview

The definition of worldview is the person's overall perspective and assumption of the world in a philosophical way, representing his most essential belief and the comments on ethics and politics, for example, a person matters on LGBT, abortion, presidential campaign… Worldview is unique, like a person heart which differs from one and others, like an engine that driving people making decision and what they believe, like the air that fundamentally important but we never aware we necessary use it in daily life. 

Too start off, what is prime reality, does God really exist in the world? David Hume who is a famous philosopher in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. “Is [God] willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil?” Some Christians refuted that if we assume God exists, it gave intelligence to every human so it is our responsibility on this matters, even the natural disaster that we cannot control, it’s the consequences of our irresponsible behavior, or maybe just a highly meaningful task to hone our spirit. In my opinion, there is no evidence prove does God exist or not, if we have the ability to prove God is truly existing, it will be ‘know’ not ‘belief ‘the exist of God. However, many philosophers argue that believing God is totally irrational, Ludwig Feuerbach’s published a book named The Essence of Christianity in 1841 which complains that God is nothing more than a fantasy object that human mistakenly reflect their own personal feeling and experience to create the illusion of ‘omnipotent’. It cannot deny that the miracles in bible, like the virgin birth of Jesus, Jonah and the big fish… violate the foundation of science. However, even God really doesn’t exist, it is undeniable that it has important contribution to constraint human’s behavior to maintain the peacefulness, guiding people to behave good, giving the meaning of life and providing security and support for human.

Human being is so complicated that we couldn’t judge a person based on a single event, it often involves personal preference. Human nature is even more complicated, that naturally include behaviors, emotion, thinking and ethic, mentioned that Ethically, human beings are either wholly evil or wholly good by virtue of whether or not an agent has adopted the moral law as the governing maxim for all of his or her maxims. In contrary, Mengzi who is a Chinese philosopher mentioned that human are born with benevolent urges that can develop into systematic thoughtful benevolence, if there is a person see a baby accidentally fall into a well, that person must naturally feel compassion which proves that human nature is good. 

Only ‘love’ can explain why some people are willing to sacrifice themselves, no matter the benevolent from Confucianism, philanthropic from Christianity or clement from Buddhism all are the different description of love. The motivation of ethic based on love, love is inborn human nature. However, the judge between good and evil still need to study related knowledge so that they can define justice. It is acquired to make foundation rules so the society will know the difference between good and evil.’ Yet, it is possible that ethic can change throughout the change in technology level, knowledge culture, social and norm. ‘It’s obvious to me that ethics change with the times as science does. Ethics have changed because of the theories of Darwin.’ from Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières. Take enhance the animals right as an example, the public awareness of animals right has been increasing compare to the old days, according to The Conversation, Ringling Bros circus which has been running over a century has closed down, it proves that public compassion attitude toward animals right is developing that people no longer paying the tickets to view animals perform ticks because they think it’s immoral. Nevertheless, why they didn’t consider ‘immoral’ before and start concerning animals rights now? It’s because social influents our standard of value, we become more concern to the things surrounded by us, for example the environment, human rights and animals rights.

In conclusion, a person’s behavior and thought are mostly determinate by worldview, it is a central operator that control every human being. According to law of attractive, it is usual that two people who have the alike type of basic worldview might easily have attracted by each other, but it is impossible that two people have exactly the same worldview. Therefore, there is no universal value of good and evil because values change over the time and environment so we cannot evaluate human nature whether it is good or evil.