COMPONENTS OF A WORLDVIEW

Components of a Worldview



Discussion

The term "worldview" is adapted from the German Weltanschauung, a term introduced by the philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey in his book ("Introduction to the Human Sciences)" , (1914). Dilthey, a member of the hermeneutic school, argued that life experience was founded (not only intellectually, but emotionally and morally) in the set of principles of society and culture that had formed. Relationships, feelings and emotions caused by the peculiar experience of the world within a given environment contribute to shape individual worldview. All cultural products and artistic expressions would turn the world view the crease, the ...