Reality Man Truth Values Naturalism The material universe Man is the chance Truth is usually No objective values or Atheism is all that exists. product of a biological understood as morals exist. Morals Agnosticism Reality is “one- process of evolution. scientific proof. Only are individual Existentialism dimensional.” There is Man is entirely that which can be preferences or socially no such thing as a soul material. The human observed with the five useful behaviors. Even or spirit. Everything species will one day senses is accepted as social morals are can be explained on the pass out of existence. real or true. subject to evolutionary basis of natural law. change.
Pantheism Only the spiritual Man is one with Truth is an experience Because ultimate Hinduism dimension exists. All ultimate reality. Thus of unity with “the ones” reality is impersonal, Taoism else is illusion, maya. man is spiritual, of the universe. Truth many pantheistic Buddhism Spiritual reality, eternal, and is beyond all rational thinkers believe that New Age Brahman, is eternal, impersonal. Man’s description. Rational there is no real Consciousness impersonal, and belief that he is an thought as it is distinction between unknowable. It is individual is illusion. understood in the West good and evil. Instead, possible to say that cannot show us reality. “unenlightened” everything is a part of behavior is that which God, or that God is in fails to understand everything and unity. everyone.
Theism An infinite, personal Humankind is the Truth about God is Moral values are the Christianity God exists. He created unique creation of God. known through objective of expression Islam a finite, material world. People were created revelation. Truth of an absolute moral Judaism Reality is both material “in the image of God,” about the material being. and spiritual. The which means that we world is gained via universe as we know it are personal and revelation and the five had a beginning and spiritual. senses in conjunction will have an end. with rational thought.