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