The problem with all these worldviews next with Father Robert McTeague.

Hello and welcome to focus the Catholic Answers Podcast for living, understanding, and defending

your Catholic faith.

I'm Cy Kelle at your host and one of my heroes is Walker Percy who once said,

in the modern world you can have 20 people sitting on a bus, a city bus together and none of them are occupying the same world and this is the problem of the modern era is the kind of proliferation of world views as we've lost the centerpoint we've lost the center point.

We've lost the center of our society.

And the loss of that center is given to us by many people

as a kind of liberation.

Go ahead, live in your own world, have your own reality. Your truth, my truth, why does it matter? The main thing is to live in your own truth. Well, the problem with all that, it does not lead to human flourishing. It does not lead to a healthy, prosperous, generous good society and

it doesn't bring our lives to full fruit. It just doesn't. So Father Robert McTag has a wonderful new book out on philosophy. It's called

real philosophy for real people and you can get it from Ignatius Press and he's got a

chapter in that book on this problem of worldview so we sat him down and asked him some questions about worldviews.

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Here's Father McTague on our worldviews and our problem with worldviews. Father McTague, it seems that maybe in the 1850s, if I were to have a dispute with someone,

we might have a disagreement, but we would be living in the same world in general. Today it's often seems like we we not only have a disagreement with the person who is of a different political party or a different religious persuasion or a different

moral kind of inclination than ourselves, we don't even seem to live in the same world.

Right, right, see that's a real difficult. You talk to people and you say, I know the person is speaking English because I recognize the words. Yeah. But the meaning and the values of the words the frame of references the things we take for granted

I case in point sometimes I tell a joke I say I'm from a mixed marriage my mother was a woman and my father was a man

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