Components of a Communist's Worldview based on Martin's Four Subsidiary Philosophical Questions Discerning the components of a worldview can be challenging at times. However, the time spent doing so is definitely advantageous when one recognizes how it affects our view of every part of our lives. The objective of this essay is to identify the standpoints of a communist’s worldview based on the “Four Simple, Subsidiary Philosophical Questions” (Questions on Ontology, Epistemology, Axiology, and Teleology) from Glenn Martin’s book, Prevailing Worldviews. Communism almost by definition asserts a naturalistic ontology. This worldview, being the, "Vision of man's mind displacing God as the intelligence of the world," (Chambers, 1987), denies the existence of any force or power greater than the progressive capabilities of the human mind. This belief is not only a preference to communism but is virtually indispensable to it...
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