Between Two Worlds

James Sire, in his very helpful book How to Read Slowly, suggests that we must look for worldviews in everything we read. That involves asking these questions:

1. What is prime reality—the really real?
2. What is the nature of external reality, that is, the world around us?
3. What is a human being?
4. What happens to a person at death?
5. Why is it possible to know anything at all?
6. How do we know what is right and wrong?
7. What is the meaning of human history?