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Steps Toward Characterizing A Worldview: #2 Refining Choices

instructions: After having made selections in the Basic Choices exercise, the four graphs below (shown in different colors) will further your exploration and help refine your worldview characterization. There is one graph for each area of focus in the previous exercise.  Note these 2D graphs connect with previously identified vertical and horizontal attributes, which define what is plotted going up and going across. The four extreme positions (corners) in each graph are given bold labels. Note the placement of worldview themes in these graphs. The worldview theme positioned near the center of each graph represents one which is more or less neutral between extreme values of vertical and horizontal attributes.  Example: If you consider yourself open-minded, but were unable select a preference for "reason" or "faith" (perhaps you circled the neutral "or" on your printout) note the "Humbly Unsure" worldview theme shown in the graph below that is intermediately positioned in the center between the extremes at the left and right sides of the graph. Clicking on it--or in general on any of the worldview themes you encounter as look over these graphs in light of your previous choices--will provide a complete description, related information, and links to explore. Again, you can use your mouse to highlight the graphs below, print them out, and circle any worldview themes (there are eighty one altogether) you decide should be part of your worldview characterization.  Below these graphs (at the bottom of this page) you'll find a place to click to follow up / go to the next step if you wish...

Proceed to the next step in characterizing a worldview: #3 More Refinement--Many More Choices