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‖ Weltanschauung|vɛltanˈʃaʊʊŋ|
Also with lower-case initial. Pl. -ungen.
[Ger., f. welt world n. + anschauung perception.]
A particular philosophy or view of life; a concept of the world held by an individual or a group; = world-view s.v. world n. 26.
1868W. James Let. in R. B. Perry Tht. & Char. W. James (1935) I. viii. 160, I remember your saying..that the characteristic of the Greek ‘Weltanschauung’ was its optimism. 1906Nature 10 May 26/2 In 1863 Haeckel entered the lists as the champion of the evolutionist ‘Weltanschauung’. 1917A. S. Pringle-Pattison Idea of God iv. 69 The intimate appreciation of living experience forms the basis of the whole Weltanschauung which he [sc. Bergson] offers us. 1934M. Bodkin Archetypal Patterns in Poetry 326 A man's philosophy.. is his Weltanschauung—the individual vision, or perspective of reality. 1938E. Quinn Mission of Austria iii. 30 Both Catholicism and National Socialism are Weltanschauungen. 1952G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. iv. 121 The creation of that astrological Weltanschauung which dominated late ancient and medieval thought and is not yet extinct today proves the survival through the Dark Interlude of some astronomical ideas of immemorial antiquity. 1958J. Jocz Theol. of Election i. 11 The impact of the Christian Weltanschauung upon the Jewish mind. 1972Science 2 June 988/1 The main reason why evolutionism..made such slow progress is that it was the replacement of one entire weltanschauung by a different one. 1978N. Jardine in Hookway & Pettit Action & Interpretation 124 Speakers of different cultures, having different Weltanschauungen, ideologies, interests, paradigms, etc. |