Ph.D. A worldview is a philosophy of life.
Paradigms come from core beliefs that make up a worldview.
Everyone has a worldview that is mostly unconscious. The holistic worldview of the ancients changed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with the philosophical and scientific revolution that changed radically the way people looked at themselves and their relationship with the world. The idea of an organic, living, and spiritual universe was replaced by that of the world as a machine, and the machine became the primary metaphor of the modern era. Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, and Isaac Newton were the leaders of this new worldview. The Newtonian universe was a mechanical system put in motion by God and operated by exact mathematical laws.