Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. a person's or a group's conception, philosophy or view of the world; a worldview
Etymologies
- German Weltanschauung (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Their weltanschauung is a tangle of conceptual binaries, self-affirming inferences, and prior assumptions that treat image as reality.”
“The word weltanschauung appears so useful that English has borrowed the original form and also made a loan translation: world view.”
“For the very prolific Grooms has a compassionate-but-absurdist weltanschauung that allows us to view ourselves -- foibles & eccentricities -- with gentle humor.”
The Huffington Post: Jill Lynne: Red Grooms and "Moi"-- Art That Makes You Smile
“In essence, this really says 'give up hope' for the most doctrinaire since they will struggle (consciously and unconsciously with the Confirmation Bias) to come up with ways information reinforces their position and deride/denigrate anything that doesn't fit (and fulfill) their weltanschauung.”
The Huffington Post: A. Siegel: Debunk Me! Debunk Me! "Lean, Mean, and Easy to Read..."
“If you do, ask yourself why, as it would not seem to effectively square with the non-believer's weltanschauung.”
The Huffington Post: Rabbi Adam Jacobs: The God Test: Why Really Everyone Believes
“Believe me, I can find dozens of quotes from dozens of prominent historians that promote the same weltanschauung.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School
“In what follows, I wish to discuss those metaphysical ideas that underlie a great Gothic cathedral, and consider the theology and weltanschauung that informed the medieval master mason.”
The Theology and Metaphysics of the Gothic Cathedral - part 1
“Compromise was, frankly, inimical to the weltanschauung of pretty much the whole of the Reformers.”
“It is, however, possible to assume that, if the motifs transmitted in those unknown [Kabbalistic] circles formed part of an ancient weltanschauung, their affinities to the rabbinic mentality would be more organic and easily absorbed into the mystic cast of Judaism.”
The Huffington Post: David Shasha: Dangerous Mystic Motifs in Judaism
“Occasionally, conversations concerning differences in weltanschauung -- one's "world view" -- come to the fore.”
The Huffington Post: Eric C. Anderson: Sino-U.S. Relations: Reconsider the Fundamentals
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