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world view
(redirected from Weltanschaung)

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Noun1.world view - a comprehensive view of the world and human life
perspective, view, position - a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider what follows from the positivist view"
clockwork universe - the view that the universe resembles a clock built by God and ticking along according to Newtonian mechanics


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It is not a book about Israel and Islam, because Israel is viewed by Muslims as a sub-set of Western Weltanschaung, but about the Islamist resistance and the West.
In contrast, the weltanschaung (German word for world view) from Mountain View (pun intended) is refreshingly clear and easily understood.
Improving A-level results are, of course, convenient for the Government, who are able to claim that they are a vindication of educational policy and a justification for the expansion of the universities where they can circulate their very own political weltanschaung, even if moronic tuition fees are required to fund this.
 
 
 
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