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| Worldview: Worldviews, according to Max Weber, are "coherent sets of values" that provide "answers to the broader questions of meaning, purpose, suffering, and injustice." They provide individuals with a sense of direction, organization, and unity in life. Weber distinguished worldviews from other collections of beliefs and values in two ways analytically, their coherence and comprehensiveness distinguish them from organizational cultures or ideologies, and to the degree that they form a system of rationalized beliefs and claims, they are distinct from myths or cosmologies. See also M. Weber._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Jürgen Habermas on Worldview - Dictionary of Arguments
III 102/103 World views/Habermas: if the rationality of world views can be judged in the formally pragmatically determined dimension of closure/openness, we expect systematic changes in world view structures that cannot only be explained psychologically, economically or sociologically, i. e. with the help of external factors, but can also be traced back to an internally reconstructable increase in knowledge. The universalist position forces us to assume, at least in the approach of evolutionary theory, that the rationalization of worldviews takes place through learning processes. >Rationalization/Habermas, >Society, >Learning, >Cultural transmission, >Lifeworld. However, this assumption must suffice for a formal analysis of contexts of meaning, which makes it possible to reconstruct the empirical succession of worldviews as a sequence of learning steps that can be comprehensively understood from the perspective of the participants and verified inter-subjectively. >Intersubjectivity, >Objectivity._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Ha I J. Habermas Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988 Ha III Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981 Ha IV Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981 |
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