Summary
A worldview is the basic set of assumptions through which a person or a society makes sense of the world: what is real, what matters, how things work. The word translates the German ‘Weltanschauung’, first used by Immanuel Kant and popularised by Hegel; anthropologists later took it up for the presuppositions a group uses to order its life.
Writers differ on whether a worldview is a set of beliefs an individual can consciously build, or something that works across a community and largely unconsciously. Activist Osprey Orielle Lake, in ‘The Story Is In Our Bones’, uses it in the second sense, for the foundational assumptions of a whole culture.
Rationale
Part 2 lists ‘worldviews’ among other fields’ names for this territory. Our caveat: ‘view’ suggests a picture in the mind, where we see sense-making emerging “through our bodies, our relationships and the environments we inhabit”.
Source: en.wikipedia.org