weltanschauung
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- noun
- /ˈvɛltˌænˌʃaʊ̯ʊŋ/
- Formal
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cosmovisión
- What had at first been an intuitive therapeutic attempt became a Weltanschauung far beyond any bounds of therapy.
- weltanschauung of the world
- a new Weltanschauung
Examples
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For the sake of getting along with the reigning Weltanschauung, most art educators have learned to live with this assumption and to pay lip service to it.
Academic text (1997) -
As many of us know, parenthood alters one’s Weltanschauung, almost invariably for the better and healthier.
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His explanation of the emergence of this new artistic Weltanschauung is thus intended to guide a positive historical representation of Early Christian art.
Academic text (1992) -
And what transforms Friday if not the Weltanschauung of Robinson, about which the world revolves?
Academic text (1992) -
Logically, categories of historical representation belong to a specific Weltanschauung as much as the artworks do themselves.
Academic text (1992) -
Berdyaev went through a complex and dizzying spiritual evolution, from Marxist criticism to Christian Weltanschauung.
Academic text (1991) -
As such, there is no real distinction between religion and any other weltanschauung or coherent set of beliefs, such as positivism or Marxism.
Academic text (1998) -
Since Freud also referred to philosophy as a Weltanschauung, the philosophical image of man, or philosophical anthropology, is also to be considered as such a "ground."
Academic text (1990) -
There was clearly a pastoral problem facing the Church, but a problem that was rooted in a vast intellectual perception of the world, a Weltanschauung that enveloped a wide range of human and cultural activity.
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Many people's weltanschauung is shaped by their cultural background and experiences.
Synonyms
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A person's main ideas and beliefs about the world and life
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A set of ideas about life and how things fit together
How Comprehensive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Weltanschauung comes from the German parts Welt 'world' and Anschauung 'view'. So a weltanschauung is literally your 'world view', the set of ideas and values that shape how you see life.