Since ancient times, people have been interested in the arrangement of the world around them, determining their place in it and their relationship both to each other and to themselves. This worldview or attitude determined a person’s position in life, his behavior and aspirations. Read more about what a worldview is in this article.
What is a person's worldview?
Man is a rational being, capable of thinking and predicting the consequences of his actions, and looking for means to realize his goals. All this determines his worldview. Natural instincts, experience, scientific and practical activities form a system of views, assessments and a figurative understanding of the world. The functions of a worldview lie in the organization, meaningfulness and purposefulness of an individual’s activities. That is, worldview is determined by beliefs, life position and moral and ethical values.
How is a worldview formed?
The overall picture of the world is formed in the process of education, training and socialization in society. In general, the formation of a worldview is a very slow and gradual process and depends on the quality of individual knowledge. Young people with insufficient experience and knowledge have an unstable worldview, which makes them an easy target for various manipulators - politicians, religious representatives, etc. As one grows up, the system of life values strengthens, determining the individual’s behavior and acting as a guide to action.
Worldview, its types and forms
There are certain components of worldview:
- Knowledge. They can be scientific, professional and practical. This is the first element of any worldview. The larger the circle of knowledge, the firmer the life position.
- Feelings. Types of worldview manifest themselves in accordance with a person’s subjective reaction to external stimuli. Depending on the mental state, the reaction can be either positive, associated with joy and pleasure, or negative, associated with sadness, grief, and fear. There is also a moral aspect - this is duty, responsibility.
- Values. The concept of worldview is closely related to values. They can be significant, useful and harmful, but they are perceived through the prism of one’s own goals, interests and needs.
- Actions– positive and negative. This is how a person shows his own views and ideas in practice.
- Beliefs– firm, strong-willed. This is a set of personal and social views that are a kind of engine and basis of life.
- Character– will, faith, doubts. Based on the ability to act independently and consciously, trust in others and self-criticism, a worldview is formed and developed.
Philosophical worldview
It is defined as system-theoretical. It differs from the mythological worldview in the high role of reason: if myth uses emotions and feelings as support, then philosophy uses logic and evidence. This type of worldview studies the forces that rule the world. Philosophy and worldview emerged simultaneously in Ancient India, China and Greece. At the same time, a worldview can exist outside of philosophy, but philosophy itself forms a worldview. Philosophical knowledge is elitist and not accessible to everyone. Rarely do pundits get carried away by it.
Religious worldview
It arose from the mythological and is based on belief in supernatural forces. As religious movements developed, many mythological features faded into oblivion, but rigid dogmatism and a system of moral commandments remained. Worldview types that include piety and holiness imply dependence on higher powers. At the heart of this worldview is fear of the unknown. A holistic religious worldview was formed when indisputable systems of dogmas and commandments appeared that determined the sinfulness and holiness of certain thoughts and actions.
Mythological worldview
This type was formed in the conditions of primitive society, when it was based on a figurative perception of the world. Mythology is closely connected with paganism and acts as a set of myths, spiritualizing material objects and phenomena. This human worldview is mixed with the sacred and the profane, but at its core is faith. According to tradition, a follower of such a worldview is able to rise to the level of god, and all the existing myths were useful from a practical point of view and were a guide to action.
Scientific worldview
This worldview arose as the opposite of the mythological and religious. The scientific picture of the world is based on the concepts of law and regularity. The main types of worldview - mythological and religious - are based on fictitious, arbitrary and supernatural reasons, and science develops in the course of complicating work and solving practical problems. Such a progressive worldview provides an opportunity to draw new knowledge from previously acquired knowledge. Rationality, transferred to religion and mythology, gave impetus to the development of philosophy.
Everyday worldview
This attitude is formed by itself in each person and is the core of common sense. The peculiarities of the worldview lie in the fact that its development partly depends on genetic inheritance. In the course of upbringing by parents, communication with friends and loved ones, and contact with the environment, values, priorities and life attitudes are formed, which by puberty acquire the features of a very specific worldview. The characteristics of the native language and the degree of its assimilation, as well as labor and tool activity, are of utmost importance in this process.
Historical worldview
In history, the types of worldview remain the same - mythological, religious and philosophical. For those who are interested in what kind of worldview there is, it is worth saying that the first was a myth - a fictitious plot, a figment of the people's imagination. Religion is closely related to mythology: both of them presuppose the presence of a mythological system and provide for the basis of myths on faith. Philosophy acts as a special way of cognition, because what a worldview is is a theory or science that studies the fundamental principles of being and knowledge.
How to change your worldview?
Worldview can undergo changes as a person grows up and acquires new knowledge. It often happens that after some event people completely change their lives and their views on it. Inveterate atheists become churchgoers, and experienced businessmen drop everything and retire to some quiet place. A person’s worldview can be improved, striving for moral ideals, learning new things, communicating with different people, and traveling. You need to read a lot - psychological, philosophical literature.
Worldview of modern man
During the collapse of the USSR, an ideological crisis arose, which was a consequence of the collapse of ideals and new ones that did not have time to form. In the era of consumption, characteristic of the present time, such moral guidelines as duty, honor, responsibility have lost their meaning. “You deserve it,” everyone hears from the TV screens and strives to live up to it. The modern worldview in the era of globalization is to reduce the importance of national culture and alienate its values.
People began to see the meaning of life in receiving pleasure. The connection with the native land and ancestors is lost; relationships in marriage and the principles of raising children have become different. At the same time, an increasing number of people are becoming aware of the need for change. The worldview in psychology has become more humanistic. A person wants to be in nature and other people. The number of churches, charities and environmental organizations is growing.
Books that change a person's worldview
- Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho. Of particular interest are works entitled "The Alchemist", "Pilgrimage".
- Books that change worldviews are written by many experts in psychology. Among them Louise Hay, which has helped many to survive negative emotions, change their thinking and even heal from some ailments, because what a worldview is is a system of values, and it can be changed if it worsens the quality of life.
- Another author - Alex Baihou. His work "Habit of being happy" is a short self-development course that teaches you how to manage your habits to achieve the goal of happiness.
- In my manuscript "White Book" Viktor Vasiliev provides psychological techniques that provide the opportunity to change oneself as a person, because what a worldview is is one’s “I”, but if you add just a few touches to your own, you can change your outlook on life.
Worldview - This is a person’s system of views and principles, his understanding of the world around him and his place in this world. Worldview substantiates an individual’s life position, his behavior and actions. Worldview is directly related to human activity: without it, activity would not be purposeful and meaningful.
The first philosopher to pay attention to worldview was Kant. He called him as worldview.
We will consider examples of worldview when analyzing its classification.
Classification of worldviews.
The classification of worldviews considers three main type of worldview from the point of view of its socio-historical features:
- Mythological type worldview was formed during the times of primitive people. Then people did not recognize themselves as individuals, did not distinguish themselves from the world around them, and saw the will of the gods in everything. Paganism is the main element of the mythological type of worldview.
- Religious type worldview, just like the mythological one, is based on belief in supernatural forces. But, if the mythological type is more flexible and allows the manifestation of various types of behavior (as long as not to anger the gods), then the religious type has a whole moral system. A huge number of moral norms (commandments) and examples of correct behavior (otherwise the flames of hell never sleep) keep society under a tight rein, but it unites people of the same faith. Disadvantages: misunderstanding of people of other faiths, hence division along religious lines, religious conflicts and wars.
- Philosophical type worldview has a social and intellectual character. The mind (intelligence, wisdom) and society (society) are important here. The main element is the desire for knowledge. Emotions and feelings (as in the mythological type) fade into the background and are considered in the context of the same intellect.
There is also a more detailed classification of worldview types based on worldview attitudes.
- Cosmocentrism(the ancient type of worldview consists of looking at the world as an ordered system where a person does not influence anything).
- Theocentrism(medieval type of worldview: God is in the center, and he influences all phenomena, processes and objects; the same fatalistic type as cosmocentrism).
- Anthropocentrism(after the Renaissance, man becomes the center of worldview in philosophy).
- Egocentrism(a more developed type of anthropocentrism: the focus is no longer just on man as a biological being, but on each individual person; the influence of psychology, which began to actively develop in the New Time, is noticeable here).
- Eccentricity(not to be confused with eccentricism in psychology; a modern type of worldview, which is based on materialism, as well as individual ideas of all previous types; in this case, the rational principle is already located outside of man, rather in society, which becomes at the center of the worldview.
When studying such a concept as worldview, one cannot help but touch upon such a term as mentality.
Mentality literally translated from Latin as “the soul of others.” This is a separate element of worldview, which means the totality of the way of thinking, ideas and morals of an individual person or social group. In essence, it is a type of worldview, its particular manifestation.
In our time, mentality is most often considered as a characteristic of the worldviews of a separate social group, ethnic group, nation or people. Jokes about Russians, Americans, Chukchi, and British are based precisely on the idea of mentality. The main feature of mentality in this understanding is the transmission of ideological ideas from generation to generation, both at the social level and at the genetic level.
When studying worldview as a type of perception of the world, in the future it is necessary to study such manifestations as
The most important thing in life
Do you know what is most important for us in our lives? Few people realize that this is our worldview. The whole world is in our heads, so our worldview is our everything. To deprive a person of his worldview means to take away the Universe from him. With the loss of our worldview, we lose all our values. Surprisingly, most people hardly think about the quality of their worldview.
Life is like an escalator that comes towards us, and if we don’t move forward, it throws us back. Without movement there is no development. A slacker becomes dull and fat, but one who participates in debates and battles acquires a quick mind and an agile body. All our achievements begin in the head, so the worldview, as a guide to action, determines our purposeful movement through life.
The world around us has placed many traps around us (you can easily verify this if, for example, you run down the street with your eyes closed - as they say, until the first streetlight). We can bypass the obstacles of the surrounding world only thanks to an adequate worldview. An inadequate worldview causes us to make mistakes - to stumble and break our foreheads. Mistakes happen and are useful (it is no coincidence that some trucking companies do not hire drivers who have never been in an accident) - “what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.” That is, mistakes are necessary and useful not in themselves, but because they allow us to learn, that is, to expand our adequate worldview.
Worldview is faith
Worldview (worldview, worldview, attitude, outlook) is an idea of the world in which we live. It is a belief system about the world. Simply put, a worldview is faith(not to be confused with the narrower sense of this word - religiosity). The belief that the world is as it seems to us.
Sometimes they say: “you cannot live without faith,” meaning religious faith. I think, however, that it is possible to live without religious faith, as atheists prove by their existence. But without faith, in the sense of a worldview, it is truly impossible to live, because... all our actions begin in our heads. In this sense, all people are believers, because everyone has a worldview. Disbelief is not emptiness, but also faith: atheists who do not believe in God believe that God does not exist. And doubt is also faith. The emptiness in the worldview is not unbelief, but ignorance.
Garbage in the head will not replace knowledge, although it is not boring
Our head is stuffed with beliefs about the world- information. True or false? This is a very important question, the answer to which is worth dedicating your life and writing a book. Our worldview is full of all sorts of beliefs and it is naive to believe that they are all true: in addition to knowledge, there is also plenty of garbage - everyone has their own cockroaches in their heads.
People are prejudiced about the correctness of their faith, otherwise they simply would not have it. Therefore, they are usually not inclined to stir up their worldview. Living with an established faith is calmer - there is no need to strain your brain once again. Besides, it is more pleasant to drown in the abyss of dreams and sweet lies than to swim in the cold ocean of harsh truth. A person who has abandoned his usual beliefs feels lost and unprotected, like a hermit crab that has lost its shell. Sometimes, to dissuade a person from his faith means to take away from him something sacred or the meaning of life.
People cling to their views, as a rule, not because they are true, but because they are their own. Even false beliefs are not easy to give up: “you are, of course, right, but I will still remain in my opinion,” stubborn people often say. By clinging to their untenable beliefs, they thereby drive themselves into the web of ignorance, and their trouble is that they themselves do not realize that they have reached a dead end.
If a person is able to easily and without delay renounce far-fetched beliefs, then he is worth something, because then he has a reason to improve. Get ready for revolutions in your brains. Taking inventory of your faith is as useful as cleaning your house from dust and dirt, for Garbage in your head is no substitute for knowledge, although it’s not boring.
"He whose brain is stuffed with garbage is in
state of insanity. And since there is garbage in that
or is otherwise present in everyone’s head,
then we are all crazy to varying degrees"
Skilef
Adequate worldview- the most valuable capital of a person. However, people, as a rule, do not care particularly carefully about the maintenance of their brains, so they do not live in the real world, but in the world of their illusions and phantasmagoria. Few people think about the structure of their worldview, although this is the most important question.
Each person's worldview reflects the evolution of humanity
Humanity is growing up. With each generation it grows, accumulating knowledge about the world - developing culture. As humanity matures, so does the worldview of every average person. Of course, in addition to world culture, people’s worldview is influenced by other factors: local characteristics (“mentality”), personal differences (temperament, upbringing) and others. Therefore, the worldviews of different people are somewhat similar, but there are also differences in them.
Absorbing knowledge about the world, it reaches out to the Truth, like a stem to the Sun. The worldview of people at all times corresponds to the mood of the era in which they live. Now people are no longer the same as they were before our era - they were children, and now they are teenagers. And even despite the fact that many modern people have a dense Middle Ages in their heads - full of superstitions - nevertheless, their idea of the world is in many ways superior to the worldview of primitive savages or ancient Egyptians. And compared to medieval scientists, every modern idiot is a genius.
Pyramid of an adequate worldview
Each person has his own worldview. People differ from each other not only in physiognomy, but also in the content of their brains. But the structure of an adequate human worldview, its framework, has the same multi-story form for all sober people.
Our worldview- a belief system about the world in which we live - is a hierarchical structure of information, similar to a multi-level pyramid. At each level of the worldview pyramid there are beliefs that have different strengths of our trust - from obvious to dubious. Each next rising level of beliefs is based on the previous levels - it grows out of them. In a simplified form, the worldview pyramid can be represented as three levels based on the foundation:
3
theories
2 - obvious
information from
other people's experiences
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1 -beliefs from our experience
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FOUNDATION : Main Axiom of Life
Let's walk through the floors of the pyramid from bottom to top:
Foundation worldview pyramid serves Home Axiom of Life(GAZH) - belief in the existence of an objective world around us, expressed by the formula:
Universe = "I" + "not I".
Although it is impossible to prove or disprove the existence of the world around us, nevertheless, we take the GAZ on faith and base all the other beliefs of the worldview pyramid on it.
First level our worldview contains beliefs derived directly from our personal experiences. This is the main and most numerous level of our beliefs - it contains a huge amount of obvious and simple knowledge about the world. This level is the most ancient and largely coincides with the ideas about the world of people of ancient eras. It contains the most necessary knowledge for life and is as important for a person as the ability to walk and think.
Here lies the understanding of the three fundamental categories of existence: matter, space and time and their fourth derivative - movement. Also at this level lie approximately our indisputable beliefs: I am a man; there are other people, animals, plants, etc. around me; table - hard; glass - transparent; cucumbers are edible; nails rust; the icicles are melting; birds can fly; people can lie and make mistakes, but sometimes they tell the truth; traffic cops sometimes wave striped sticks and others.
The beliefs of the first level of the worldview pyramid were born in our heads from our practice from early childhood, when we began to explore the world, and many of them were confirmed by practice more than once. That's why they are the hardest. We almost never question them, because our senses are the most reliable sources of information in the world.
Thanks to the belief that other people are like us and can tell the truth, from the first level of worldview the second grows.
Second level contains obvious information, confirmed by the experience of other people. For example, some people, it seems to me, know from their experience that whales live in the world's oceans; I believe in this information.
If we want to have more knowledge about the world, we cannot rely only on our own experience, but we must also trust other people who have different experiences and who can tell us about them. This is how culture spreads in society. By exchanging experiences, people enrich each other's worldview. It is in trusting other people that the useful function of education lies, forming the second (as well as third) level of our worldview. In order to effectively understand the world, it is more useful to read a book by a researcher who has spent his life studying certain phenomena than to study these phenomena himself all his life.
The second level of worldview is younger than the first and began to actively develop in people with the advent of speech, when they learned to exchange information more accurately and subtly than with the help of gestures and inarticulate screams. It then repeatedly accelerated its growth rate due to the advent of writing, printing, mass media, and other advances.
At this level of our worldview there may be approximately the following beliefs: cobra is poisonous; penguins live in Antarctica; the North Pole is colder than Africa; Italy is shaped like a boot (the astronauts won’t let you lie); Germany was at war with the Soviet Union; archaeologists find objects called dinosaur bones in the ground; iron melts when heated, oil is extracted from the bowels of the Earth, gasoline is extracted from oil, etc..
Information located at this level is confirmed by numerous testimonies of other people, and for us is almost as obvious as the facts of the first level. Sometimes we ourselves become convinced of it in practice, and then it moves from the second level of our worldview to the first.
However, non-obvious information can also be included here: stories about Bigfoot, the Loch Ness dinosaur, about ghosts or aliens: “suddenly aliens grabbed me and dragged me into a UFO.” This evidence is questionable because it is supported by only a few "eyewitnesses", it contradicts fundamental scientific concepts, and it is also supported by the belief that other people can lie and make mistakes.
Third level - Theories. This is the highest level of our worldview, because... theories are more complex structures that include building blocks of information from previous levels. As a rule, it takes the mind of a genius to discover a worthwhile theory, and to develop it requires the observations, reflections and discussions of researchers of different generations. It is thanks to the mastery of reliable theories that a person can design rockets, transmit information to anywhere on the planet, and also systematically increase his average life expectancy.
Here are usually located: Theories: probability, Relativity, Evolution, Big Bang, global warming, separate nutrition; nutritional postulate: the more you eat and the less you move, the thicker the layer of fatty tissue, as a rule; religious beliefs, astrology, conspiracy theory, belief in spirits, occult teachings, as well as hackneyed slogans: “nerve cells do not recover”, “salt and sugar - white death”, “AIDS - the plague of the 20th century” and others- all this is here, on the third level.
It should be noted that the third level is the most cluttered. In addition to correct concepts, there is a lot of garbage here - superstitions, prejudices, unprovable doctrines and erroneous hypotheses that are introduced into people's worldviews due to their gullibility and lack of knowledge. Many theories are far-fetched, untested and unproven. In addition, people often tend to invent unrealistic beliefs for themselves that they want to believe. And they forget that unreliable theories, even though they are very beautiful, do not elevate a person, but put him in a puddle. Cockroaches in the head mainly live on the upper floors of the worldview pyramid.
We looked at the so-called actual ideological beliefs, i.e., reflecting the objective world. Also in our worldview there are evaluative beliefs that permeate all levels of our pyramid from bottom to top and reflect our attitude to the facts of the world around us. "We live in a colorless world that we paint ourselves" ( Skilef). Ratings make the world colorful. Ratings are subjective.
We live in a colorless world
which we paint ourselves
Skilef
Ratings
Do you know why people love, hate, argue among themselves and what is the cause of all human wars? As it turns out, it's all about the grades.
All human joys, sorrows, disagreements and problems arise from assessments in people's heads. A person is happy or unhappy not because of life itself, but because of how he evaluates it. Our life does not consist of events, but of our attitude towards events. Assessments make a colorless world bright, push people to take action and force them to make choices. And because All our lives we do nothing but constantly make choices, then our assessments are the source of life movement.
Estimates are present in our worldview along with factual information. Assessments (opinions, points of view, tastes) are beliefs that reflect our attitude to facts. And if the actual beliefs of our worldview reflect the objective world (for example, the concept of “elephant”), then assessments exist only in the head (the elephant is bad).
Our assessments come from the depths of our personality - they are generated by instincts, polished by emotions and confirmed by reason. Evaluations are formed by human needs, therefore they are characterized by categories: beneficial-unprofitable, benefit-harm, like-dislike. In general, human evaluations tend to reflect people's interests.
Typically, ratings are measured on a good-bad scale. Let's say, if an employee demands a salary increase, it means he thinks it's good; the boss is usually against it, because For him, these extra expenses are bad.
Evaluations are characterized by the categories of “good” and “evil” (for example, hero, villain). Or they reflect relative values (big, strong, a lot, fast, hot). In speech, evaluations are often expressed by adjectives: beautiful, wretched, wonderful, ordinary, pleasant, vulgar, wonderful, representative, etc. Concepts such as: righteous, sinner, well done, fool, feat, debauchery - express assessments. Factual information can also take on evaluative shades: stuck in (he finally came), dumped (finally left), strayed (thank God he died). Many slang terms (cool, dumb, cool, sucks), swear words (scoundrel, bastard, bastard, rubbish) are assessments. And swear words usually also express evaluations (no comment).
Criminal arbitrariness, fair retribution, enormous harm, worst fears, most favored - assessments. Concepts: good, evil, justice, generosity - evaluative concepts. Different life principles, moral principles, commandments and codes of honor are all evaluation systems that are subjective and may differ both among individuals and among entire nations. For example, in our society it is generally accepted that killing is bad, but some natives from the Andaman Islands believe that eating your enemy is healthy.
Evaluations are in a person’s head, not outside of it. Everyone has their own assessments, the same for like-minded people and different for oppositionists.
As they say, you can’t argue with facts, but people are ready to argue about assessments all their lives, which is what they love to do. When people contrast their personal assessments with each other, then conflicts begin - disputes, scandals, fights and wars. After all, what is beneficial to one may harm another.
Various processes that are currently taking place in the world play an important role in human life, are reflected in the consciousness and influence its forms. Types of worldview are not only a reflection of one of the sides of reality, but also establish a focus on a certain area of life. Throughout his life, a person faces a number of problems, makes mistakes and gains the necessary experience using new inventions. At the same time, he constantly improves himself and gets to know himself as a person. Each individual will always strive to learn something important, discover something new, previously unknown, and get answers to questions that interest him. Many questions are answered by a worldview that is formed in everyone’s culture.
- Islam.
- Christianity.
- Buddhism.
- Judaism.
Philosophy
Not all types of worldview can be classified as philosophical, however, philosophy is one of the forms of worldview consciousness. Anyone who is even slightly familiar with the myths and legends of Ancient Greece knows that the Greeks lived in a special world of fantasy, which later became the guardians of their historical memory. Most modern people perceive philosophy as something very far from reality. Like any other science based on theory, philosophy is constantly enriched with new knowledge, discoveries and content. However, philosophical consciousness is not the dominant aspect of the ideological content of this form of worldview. The spiritual-practical side as the main component of consciousness defines it as one of the ideological types of awareness.
The difference between philosophy and other types of worldview:
- Based on clear concepts and categories.
- It has its own system and internal unity.
- Knowledge based.
- Characterized by turning thoughts towards oneself.
Worldview structure
Conclusion
The result of society's diverse and rich experience of mastering reality laid the foundation for philosophical analysis. Rational-theoretical types of worldview in philosophy arose historically, through man’s awareness of the surrounding reality. Philosophy is designed to combine patterns and features that can reflect reality, and is a theoretically formulated worldview. In the process, an extremely generalized system of knowledge about man, the world and their relationship was developed. Types of worldview are designed to help society understand the rational meaning and patterns of development of human existence and the world as a whole. Laws, philosophical categories and principles are universal in nature and apply simultaneously to nature, man, his thinking and society.
What is a worldview and why is it necessary for modern man? What is the essence of a worldview? Has the worldview and its role in human life changed throughout history?
In an age when you can just press a button and get an answer to any question, is there a need to look inside ourselves in order to give a correct assessment of who we are and with what eyes we look at the world?
A person’s worldview determines his behavior, thinking stereotypes, and influences the determination of moral values and personal qualities. This is a person’s vision of himself in the world and his perception of the world around him. There is often no difference between the concepts of “philosophy” and “worldview”. Meanwhile, the characteristics of a worldview are much broader.
Philosophy is attitudes, ideas that become the basis for a worldview. Formation of personality and its behavior, determination of the ideological and psychological framework of people’s activities, building criteria for relationships with the world are functions of worldview.
What and how influences the formation process
A system of closely interconnected values, emotions, ideals and actions forms a holistic personality. That is why the concept of worldview has occupied scientific minds since ancient times. A person’s worldview is formed from norms and ideas generally accepted in his circle about life and the world, about people and nature, about science and culture.
It is possible to identify ways to form a worldview, i.e. several circles of influence:
- First of all, this is a family - it is here that a person receives the first definition of who he is and what the world around him is like.
- The second layer of influence is the immediate environment - friends and people of authority with whom direct communication takes place.
- The third layer is authorities with whom there is no direct communication, but whose opinions and views a person can learn through books, the media, etc.
- The fourth layer of influence includes general ideological norms and principles existing in his state or accepted in the world as a whole.
The period of childhood and adolescence is especially important in the formation of an individual’s ideological position. At a time when the authority of parents and adults is great and unconditional, it is necessary not only to instill in the child everyday skills, but also to explain “what is good and what is bad.”
If a child has been immersed in a certain ideological environment since childhood, then in the future he will look for an environment where people live according to the same criteria. If clear ideological principles are not laid down from childhood, in adolescence the child will not be able to make correct and safe decisions, or give an adequate assessment of people and events.
How to protect yourself and your loved ones, what do you need to know? First of all, let's figure out what the worldview consists of and which of its components are most vulnerable to outside negative influence.
Components of worldview that have the greatest influence on the formation of personality:
- Knowledge acquired by an individual.
- Emotions, i.e. people's reactions to certain events or environments.
- Rules that people apply in life.
- Deeds and actions.
Thus, the basis of everything is knowledge or information. People accept and react to different information in different ways. If a person is placed in an environment where there is the same type of negative information, the person will change, his behavior and emotions will change, he will become more aggressive and embittered. If a person receives positive information, he will change for the better. Think about what information you receive and what your social circle is.
A fairy tale is a lie, yes...
In the course of human development, several types of worldviews have formed, which are usually associated specifically with historical eras. This approach is not absolutely correct, since in our time all three types and even their combinations can be found.
Considering the historical types of worldview, we will find differences in the components that make them up.
The main issues in people's lives are decided by the gods or their earthly representatives. At the same time, people’s emotions and actions in relation to the world are clearly regulated - after all, everything is in the hands of the gods. The rules of behavior and actions of a person himself come from the same postulate.
In our time, religious sects can be considered a typical example of mythological consciousness. In them, a person and all his activities are completely subordinate to the leader, who proclaims himself “god” and establishes norms and rules of behavior, regulates the emotions of his followers and imposes on them his knowledge about the world.
The second type is religious. Unlike the first type, knowledge is contained in religious books, so it appears that the person himself found this knowledge in the process of reading. This increases their value. In addition, in the religious worldview, the earthly world is clearly separated from the world of the spirit.
Rules and regulations, although less strict, are based on the authority of religious leaders. Adherents of a religious worldview live to receive some benefits not in the earthly world, but in the sacred, the world that will exist after death. This type of worldview is present in any religious denomination.
Unfortunately, the third type is less common than religious or mythological consciousness. After all, declaring your individuality and finding your way in the world is much more difficult.
The main types of worldview from the point of view of what knowledge is its basis: everyday (based on everyday knowledge), religious (derived from religious literature), scientific (based on the study of theory and experiments) and humanistic (based on human values).
Crisis - what to do
We see how important it is that the question of what a worldview is and what is the role of a worldview in human life does not remain just a topic for scientific discussions. In people's activities, it is the worldview that becomes the foundation and fulcrum.
The main thing is don't panic. A crisis is an opportunity to reconsider what you haven’t gotten around to for many years, to do something that you didn’t dare take on and put off until later. Look for what you like, change what you don’t like, what bothers you.
Change your social circle, find those who share common interests with you. Protect yourself from any negative information and eternally dissatisfied people - after all, you and I have come to the conclusion that it is information that is the basis of our worldview system.
However, if the crisis turns out to be deep and you cannot cope with the protracted condition on your own, do not hesitate to ask for help, even if you have never done this before. To gain insight in relation to oneself is the most important thing in life. And then everything will fall into place. Author: Ruslana Kaplanova