Worldviews in Truth and Method

The third section of Truth and Method has some helpful insights on thinking about the orientation of philosophy and the orientation of those who think in terms of world-views / language-views.   Worldviews are driven by questions of pluralism, of the diversity of languages and ways of experiencing the world;  philosophy does not deny that, but it is concerned with the nature of experience itself.  That is, philosophy is not driven by the problem of pluralism but but by the possibility of truthful experience.  Some accounts of pluralism actually lose the possibility of truthful experience.  Others pay homage to pluralism but revert to a pre-critical account of truth.  What is challenging is to account for truthful experience without betraying either pluralism or truth.

quote from Stanley Hauerwas

The general view of most Christian Americans is they can let their children make up their minds about whether they are a Christian or not but they don’t let them make up their minds about being an American. Now that’s an indication that national identification has become more determinative for the way people live than their Christian identification. Now I’m sure they will deny that if you suggest it, but ask them if they don’t believe that they ought to raise children to grow up to make up their minds and they will always say, yes of course. But then they don’t, when it comes to the issues of national loyalty. They don’t let children make up their own minds; it kind of comes with the drinking water