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Reflective Essay On Worldviews

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Introduction:
The understanding that I had on worldviews was changed over this period of time as I soon realised that it is not just my lens that I view the world and different cultures, but that I need to have an understanding of different ways at looking through another lens.
In this reflective essay, I will say what I thought I knew about witchcraft and how it changed and if it actually has changed. I will focus on stereotyping in cultures and gender as I will disagree in some aspects. I will also look just culture in general and how the lens I looked through in the past has changed over the course of this module.
Touching on my first understand what worldviews are and how it can form you and then going into the different topics.
A worldview in my lens; Now. …show more content…

Warren Brown (2004;5) explains that there are different ways of which one can look at to get a better understanding to what the truth can be. Science, Traditions, Scriptures, Experience and Rationality are the main aspects that he is focusing on. Freud and Weltanschauungen (1933) (Noeth, 2016)have a similar way to which they believe you can distinguish between what worldviews are and in that seeing what you believe is the truth about worldviews. He approaches science, philosophy, art, and religion.
Where Brown explains this in a way where each of this is a radio and the sound waves give an idea of truth somewhere in the middle. Turning the frequencies in order to see if there are resonance and dissonance in these wavelengths and then seeing where truth is.
I believe in this module it is the same, you will not always agree with everyone and your worldview will never be the same as everyone’s, but you can approach people’s worldviews and believes in an approachable way without offending the

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