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worldview

is the way life, telling one what to believe (for example that the world is hostile). The ethos prescribes the way to act in it-in this case by protecting oneself against others.

What Geertz calls the 'world view' tells one what to believe. It does soby putting the threatening experiences in a larger, even cosmic, perspective.For example, to believe in the i.nate aggressiveness of humanitywould account for harm suffered at the hands of others and would makethe harm more nearly endurable, whether or not quite justified.What Geertz calls the 'ethos' tells one how to act in light of the worldview. To believe that humans are ineradicably aggressive would surelydictate a more authoritarian brand of child rearing and schooling, forexample. Whereas the world view describes the way life is-in thisHobbesian case, hostile the ethos prescribes the way to act in it-in thiscase by protecting oneself against others. For Geertz, the world viewserves not merely to bolster an existing ethos, as it does for many socialfunctionalist, but also to provide a 'model for' creating t.he very ethos itthen bolsters. [Selected Readings in the Anthropology of Religion: Theoretical and . . . By Stephen D. Glazier, Charles Flowerday

is a prescientific or scientific view of life, a view of our position in the world and how we should act.

world-view and world-picture Weltanschauung is formed from Welt, 'world', and Anschauung, 'view, etc.', and means 'view of, outlook on, the world'. Weltbild is a 'picture [Bild] of the world'. They are not interchangeable. A Weltbild is usually associated with science or a science ('the mechanistic world-picture', 'the physicist's world-picture', etc.), while a Weltanschauung can be prescientific or scientific. A Weltbild is usually a theoretical view of the external world, while a Weltanschauung is essentially a 'view of life', a view of our position in the world and how we should act (cf. AWP, 86/133f.). (inwood 248)

is not merely a theoretical form of knowledge but a practical attitude about the world and one's own existence that is not momentary but enduring.

In a worldview, a certain attitude thus manifests itself. A worldview is not merely a theoretical form of knowledge but a practical attitude about the world and one's own existence that is not momentary but enduring. It is formed and appropriated by human beings themselves. (heidegger 'struggle' : 148)

is such that a new conception of life cannot be imposed on men... it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: One spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.

A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men... it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external. Leo Tolstoy

is falsely suggestive of the idea that a ‘world’ is a particular stance that people or individuals hold inside their heads, as representations, rather than the more fundamental shared disclosure of things within which they find themselves in all their thoughts, practices and beliefs, providing the basis even of their self-conceptions and suppositions.

One might use the term ‘world-view’, but this falsely suggests that a ‘world’ is a particular stance that people or individuals hold inside their heads, as representations, rather than the more fundamental shared disclosure of things within which they find themselves in all their thoughts, practices and beliefs, providing the basis even of their self-conceptions and suppositions.

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