A person’s unique belief system centres around the stories we tell ourselves to define our personal sense of reality. In essence, these are the beliefs that shape who we are and what we value. They can be both spiritual and ethical, political or philosophical. Moreover, we all have them. Every human being has individual values or principles that they live by. It is therefore through this mechanism that we each ‘make sense’ of the world around us in our own personal way.
But what does belief mean? A belief is defined as the acceptance that something either exists or is true. In epistemology, philosophers use the term ‘belief’ to refer to attitudes about the world which can be either true or false. Indeed, throughout the eras, beliefs have always the subject of important philosophical debates.
Another important element of our many types of – the interrelation of all that we hold to be true and just.