Final Short Answer

Question 1

What are Sire’s 1st 4 of the 8 basic questions?

Answer 1

1) what is prime reality?
2) what is the nature of external reality?
3) what is a human being?
4) what happens to a person at death?

Question 2

What are Sire’s 2nd 4 of the 8 basic questions?

Answer 2

5) why is it possible to know anything at all?
6) How do we know what is right and wrong?
7) What is the meaning of Human history?
8) What personal, life-orienting core commitments are consistent with this worldview

Question 3

What is theism?

Answer 3

1) God the creator of everything, made humans in his image
2) God is omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, personal, and relational
3) Knowledge, truth, death, reality, ethics, and history of human beings is all focused on God

Question 4

What is deism?

Answer 4

1) Superior being who created the universe
2) Being is distant and doesn’t interfere with human life
- he created the universe and let it run
3) morality and ethics is based on reason

Question 5

What is naturalism?

Answer 5

1) The belief that nothing outside of matter or physical reality exists
2) The universe is self-made, no creator
3) prioritizes logic
4) everything can be explained by biology, physics, and chemistry

Question 6

What is nihilism?

Answer 6

1) the belief that life is meaningless
2) human beings are machines with no ability to “affect” destiny
3) pessimistic or skeptical about truth, morals, and beliefs
4) often find that this worldview liberates people from expectations or depresses them with the bleak future of humanity

Question 7

What is atheistic existentialism?

Answer 7

1) Existance precedes essence
2) Humanity needs to create value in a meaningless world
3) knowledge and morality are subjective

Question 8

What is theistic existentialism?

Answer 8

1) existance precedes essence
2) individuals must forge a relationship with God
3) Faith based on personal experiences

Question 9

What is eastern pantheistic monism?

Answer 9

1) many if not all roads lead to one
2) “God”, the universe, and everything in it are one
3) End goal of faith should be to be apart of the “one” (enlightenment)

Question 10

What is New Age philosophy?

Answer 10

1) self-discovery and personal growth through spirituality
2) believe in a spiritual realm that transcends the physical one
3) goal is to transcend into the spiritual realm for communication
- drugs, yoga, meditation (reach Nirvana)

Question 11

What is postmodernism?

Answer 11

3 parts: modernism, postmodernism, and metamodernism
- modernism: radioage, belief in metanarrative
- postmodernism: televisionage, rejects metanarrative
- metamodernism: internetage, pendulum shifting between the solid truth of modernism and the fluid truth of postmodernism

Question 12

Movie Watching Tips (6)

Answer 12

1) be selective
2) Keep your thinking cap on
3) Watch the movie with Jesus
4) be alert about the movie’s influence on your imagination
5) discuss the message of the movie with someone
6) Do your homework before watching the movie