ABSTRACT
The analysis of explanation in Part One, of method in Part Two, of man in Part Three, and of the process of harmonizing aims in Part Four has prepared us for an examination of different comprehensive outlooks on or perspectives of our world. By a philosophic outlook we mean more than a philosophic theory. It is a way of looking at the world, a set of attitudes guiding human life, a theory embodied in practice. A discussion of fundamental outlooks is therefore in one sense most general since it deals with systematic conceptions of the whole universe; and yet in another sense it is most specific and oriented to practice, since it provides foundations for an answer to the question “What should we do?”
