Word: worldview
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...point: neither military force nor intelligence is going to stop suicide bombings. Only "mitigate" them. What NATO is pressing the Afghans to do is to deindocrinate young men like Farhad. But how do you get someone like Farhad, who may never have seen a map, change his radical worldview...
...Obama and Daley used the analogy to call for better gun-control laws. But this kind of call for outrage is only likely to resonate among those who are already outraged. "Cultural worldview," squishy as the concept may be, matters more than anything else when it comes to the most divisive issues - more than whether you are black or white, male or female, southern or eastern, urban or rural, conservative or liberal...
...Harvard students, we are repeatedly told that attending Harvard demonstrates personal success thus far in our lives. Some of us even let this perspective limit our future potential and pervade our worldview. What’s more, sitting in Cambridge, with the world’s most influential people streaming through our classes and lecture halls, lauding our institution perpetually, it’s easy to believe that every child, everywhere, aspires to our position...
...that lets us marvel at the world. To me, having an active imagination means maintaining a certain willingness to suspend disbelief, to act entirely on impulse without any self-consciousness: As a child I was never ensnared by inhibitions or concerns about how my behavior would look. And my worldview was completely different. The very mundane was full of possibilities—sometimes terrifying ones—and I was never bored. But because discussing one’s childhood always feels intensely personal, the quiet death of adventure stories, talking animals, and palpable magic feels like an exclusively personal...
...seems to me that the sense of hostility reported by the students in their science classes arises from an overly simplistic view of religion on the parts of their professors. Science is a methodology, not a worldview. Scientific research should not make claims on epistemological and philosophical issues such as the existence of God or validity of belief, especially when based on an overly simplistic understanding of religion. Science can describe and make predictions, but scientists should be aware that their methodology has no a priori claim to superiority over other methods in making epistemological and metaphysical claims...