Dear Cay and Jody,
You say <snip> ... worldview is more fundamental than ethics. Worldviews,
paradigms or epistemological positions determine ethical points of view, as
well has how we put our positions into practice. <endsnip>
This is a limited assumption only valid if you take a mentalist or similar
perspective.
On a more real and less cognitive front, one of the interesting biological
systems of organisms, including humans, is that which enables an organism to
take multiple inputs and convert them to a single output: a yes/no or do/do
not or like/dislike .
This fundamental biological process is the essence and basis of ethics. It
is not dependent on thinking, conscious cognition, or theoretical
constructs.
The ability to biologically convert multiple inputs into a single output
as 'ethical' decisions, the ability to biologically create the 'yes/no from
multiple inputs, is what provides the core underlying human processes by
which it is possible to make the judgements necessary to build a
'worldview'.
Hence from ethological and other biological, or even 'design and emotion'
perspectives, the human ability to do ethics is more fundamental than the
human ability to have a worldview. From these perspectives, the findings is
opposite of what you suggest.
Best wishes,
Terry
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