eurocentric worldviews

Question 1

worldview

Answer 1

way of being, doing and knowing
- epistemic and ontological

Question 2

place-thought

Answer 2

no difference between epistemiology and ontology
- land is alive and thinking

Question 3

eurocentric worldview

Answer 3

• considers its worldview as objective and universal
• linear, anthropocentric, coercive order, world is means to our end

Question 4

what does a linear worldview mean?

Answer 4

direction of reality is towards an end goal
-> time, societies, progression, knowledge

Question 5

indigenous worldview

Answer 5

circular, constant state of flux, understanding world from where we are situated (important connection to land), world order (everything is dependent on each other to subsist), community importance

Question 6

implicate order/Great Mystery

Answer 6

indivisible world, everything has an element of sacred in them -> nature has a purpose

Question 7

7 generations

Answer 7

everything should be done with the effects on the 7 next generations in mind

Question 8

consequences of the indigenous worldview

Answer 8

• tolerance and non-interference (each part of circle has its own understanding)
• social order favors voluntary compliance over coercion
• authority depends on qualities
• decision making by consensus
• society should be centered around women

Question 9

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