Why Does Worldview Matter? The Impact of Worldview IV – Life Motivation
Worldview is the conceptual lens through which we see,
understand, and interpret the world and our place within it. Worldview develops
in and flows through the heart, the center of the human person, and necessarily
involves answers (propositional or narrative) to four questions: What is our
nature? What is our world? What is our problem? What is our end? Every person
possesses a worldview that provides an answer or set of answers to these core
worldview questions, but these individual worldviews can be compiled under
broad categories.
But why does worldview matter? How does worldview
affect us? Why bother learning about it as a concept, and one’s own worldview
specifically? What does it have to do with life? Simply put, worldview matters
because one’s worldview affects everything that one thinks and does, through confirmation
bias, experiential accommodation, the pool of live options,
and life motivation. What about that last notion, of life motivation? How does worldview
affect the way we live and move and have our being?
Worldview and Life Motivation.
Worldview impacts the way that we live. A worldview not only describes the
world for us but also directs our life in the world. It not only gives us a
perspective on how the world is (worldview’s descriptive function) but also
acts as a guide for how the world ought to be and how we ought to live in the world
(worldview’s normative function).
