Weltanschauung — German for “worldview” or “vision of the world”: the set of presuppositions, values, and beliefs that structure how an individual, culture, or era understands reality as a whole. Dilthey used the concept to characterize different forms of interpreting human existence (naturalism, idealism of freedom, objective idealism). Heidegger criticizes the concept: every “worldview” presupposes a subject’s position over the world as object — a stance typical of, and problematic within, Modernity.
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