worldviewとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• world-view, world view

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A calque of German Weltanschauung, equivalent to world +‎ view.

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worldview (plural worldviews)

1. A person's personal view of the world and how one interprets it; any ingroup's or society's mainstream view thereof.

   Near-synonym: cosmovision

   • 2023 May 24, Nadine Schmidt and Sophie Tanno, “Germany intensifies scrutiny of far-right AfD, labeling its youth wing ‘extremist’”, in CNN‎:

     According to the BfV, the JA promotes an ethno-nationalist worldview that ostracizes anyone who is not a native, white German.

   • 2023 November 17, Blake Montgomery, “White House condemns Elon Musk’s ‘abhorrent’ antisemitic tweets”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     “You have said the actual truth,” Musk tweeted in reply. X users, including many in the tech industry, lambasted the posts, though other users agreed with Musk and said they were gleefully watching him sink into their hateful worldview.

   • 2025 May 21, Manisha Krishnan, “IVF Clinic Bombing Suspect Was Linked to ‘Anti-Life’ Ideology. Experts Fear Its Growing Influence”, in WIRED‎, archived from the original on 21 May 2025:

     The bombing comes over a week after ISD released a report about how nihilistic worldviews are fueling violence in the US and Europe.

2. The totality of one's beliefs about reality.

   Near-synonym: cosmology

3. A general philosophy or view of life.

   The Elizabethan worldview differs from a modern worldview.

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 7:

     Human beings feel safe and secure when they can stand confidently in the center of things, either in the center of an age or in the center of a class of people with a common world-view, but when they come to an edge, they feel nervous and unsettled.

   • 1986, Piotr Buczkowski, Andrzej Klawiter, editors, Theories of Ideology and Ideology of Theories‎, Rodopi, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 57:

     The Enlightment worldview, which considered the order of "Nature" as a basis and, at the same time, the subject of explorations of scientific natural sciences, has, at the same time, considered this order as a criterion of the artistically-aesthetic qualities of art. From an "ideological" point of view, it liberated art from its feudal religious and courtly servitude.

   • 2009 June 2, Ed Gungor, What Bothers Me Most about Christianity: Honest Reflections from an Open-Minded Christ Follower, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 13:

     Some worldviews are based in a belief in God; others are not. Buddhism, Taoism, atheism, Marxism, and existentialism are examples of worldviews that are nontheistic.

同意語

• weltanschauung, philosophy, belief system

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