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weltanschauung

/velt-ahn-shou-oong/US // ˈvɛltˌɑnˌʃaʊ ʊŋ //UK // German (ˈvɛltanʃauʊŋ) //

世界观,世界观念,世界展望,世界观和价值观

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    German.

    • : a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity's relation to it.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Obamacare is an existential threat to their Weltanschauung, their idea of America?

  • Rick Perry (not quite a candidate) is the only Republican to absorb sports fully into his being, his Texas Weltanschauung.

  • If you favor Swift, you are embracing a Weltanschauung that says that all of life is a high-school melodrama.

  • It forms an essential part of the philosophy of life, the Weltanschauung of every patriotic Prussian.

  • This view of Herder's was Goethe's starting-point in the formation of his Weltanschauung (or general view of things).

  • Surely the legitimate province of 'personalism' lies in the region of general ideas, or rather in the Weltanschauung as a whole.

  • In Germany every one sports his Weltanschauung, his personal interpretation of life and its meanings.

  • Only by applying the Marxian philosophy of history can we upset the bourgeois Weltanschauung.'