Communication Chapter 3

Autonomous and Theocentric

2 basic types of worldview

Socialization, Physical Constitution, and Spiritual Constitution

3 factors that contribute to the development of one's worldview

worldview

A __________ is the belief system that you practice in daily life, not just the set of belief statements that you offer when asked to do so.

Worldview

A person's answers to questions about communication's significance will be powerfully influenced by his or her ____________

Utilitarian truth standards

Hold that a belief, feeling, or behavior is acceptable if it promotes the greatest good not for the individual, but for humanity as a whole.

pragmatic truth standards

Hold that a belief, feeling, or behavior is acceptable if it simply "works" for the person who holds it, regardless of whether it logically consists with anyone else's experiences and standards.

Rationalistic and empirical truth standards

Hold that a belief, feeling, or behavior is unacceptable if it is illogical or if it is at odds with what common human observations tell us is true

hypocritical, delusional, or ignorant

If the beliefs a person professes contradict the one he/she actually practices, he/she is _______, _______, or ________

Physical determinism

Sees the universe as a self-created, self-sustaining machine, consisting of material process and particles and nothing more than these, that invariably follow the course that physics has blindly programmed it to follow.

origin, nature, purpose, destiny

Your worldview is a composite of your beliefs about human ___________ (where we came from), human __________ (what makes us human), human ___________ (why we are here), and human _______________ (where we are going)

delusional

a __________ person is someone who does not know that such an inconsistency exists because he or she chooses to disbelieve in its existence, even though this person has reason for believing that it does exist.

Worldview

a _____________- is an individual's most basic assumptions about the way things truly are

Physical determinism

according to this view, the beliefs that God or spiritual beings exist and that life has an overarching spiritual purpose are little more than biochemically conditioned illusions that the human brain creates to enable people to cope with the harsh realities of a hostile world

ignorant

an ___________ person is someone who does not know that such an inconsistency exists because he or she has no reason to know it exists

Autonomous worldview

are systems of belief that people develop on their own, primarily in response to what human standards have taught them to deem believable or acceptable

Physical Determinists

believe an individual instinctively communicates with other individuals to establish connections that boost his or her likelihood for survival

Existentialist

believe that although we come to see the world as we do by the people who influence us through socialization, this neither has to be nor should be so

human-centered

in their quests to determine what is believable, acceptable, or true, autonomists test beliefs through the use of several types of ________-_______ proof standards

Johannes Kepler

many early trailblazers in this movement were outstanding Christians who aimed, through their direct investigations of the material world, in words commonly attributed to astronomer _____________________ as being simply to "think God's thoughts after him"

Theocentric worldview

recognizes that God, the timeless, changeless source and sustainer of the universe and the source of all knowledge, discloses otherwise indiscernible foundational truths through Scripture, and that these otherwise hidden disclosures rightly frame and give direction to human questions to make sense of anything, including communication

hypocrite

someone who is aware of and content to live with an inconsistency between the belief system he or she professes and the one he or she practices

Physical Constitution

the bodily dynamics that help to shape someone's personality and, by extension, his or her openness to certain types of ideas, feelings, and behaviors

Socialization

the person's history of interactions with people whose input helps to shape the way he or she sees and acts toward the world

Spiritual Constitution

the state of spiritual brokenness into which people are born and which conditions them to seek things that are God-like rather than God himself

ridding yourself of external influences

to the existentialist communication tends to be negative. Only by _______________________ can you live your life authentically and freely, they say