Within this worldview, it was reasonable to believe that astrology could be used to predict the probable future of a human being.

This was not a cynical use of religion to manipulate his subjects into obedience, but an intrinsic element in Alfred's worldview.

This childhood tragedy likely helped shape Capp ’ s cynical worldview, which, funny as it was, was certainly darker and more sardonic than that of the average newspaper cartoonist.

Their worldview was shaped and influenced by the anticommunism of that time.

Though they were very close friends for a while, it was ultimately the differences in worldview and personality that led their friendship to strand.

Mercantilism was closely aligned with the other theories and ideas that were replacing the medieval worldview.

Therefore, the Manichaean worldview explained the existence of evil with a flawed creation God took no role in forming and was the result of Satan striking out against God.

Animism was also a concept common to many pre-Christian European religions, and in adopting it, contemporary Pagans are attempting to " reenter the primeval worldview " and participate in a view of cosmology " that is not possible for most Westerners after childhood.

While racial mysticism played a key role in his own worldview, Spengler had always been an outspoken critic of the pseudo-scientific racial theories professed by the Nazis and many others in his time, and was not inclined to change his views upon Hitler's rise to power.

Again, for early 20th century physics, the transition between the Maxwellian electromagnetic worldview and the Einsteinian Relativistic worldview was neither instantaneous nor calm, and instead involved a protracted set of " attacks ," both with empirical data as well as rhetorical or philosophical arguments, by both sides, with the Einsteinian theory winning out in the long-run.

While they were very close friends for a while, it was ultimately the differences in worldview and personality that led their friendship to strand.

Humboldt's work was concerned more with what he called Weltansicht, the linguistic worldview.

In Underhill's work, a distinction is made between five forms of worldview: world-perceiving, world-conceiving, cultural mindset, personal world and perspective, in order to convey the distinctions Humboldt was concerned with preserving in his ethnolinguistics.

The assumption behind this worldview was that each nation was as powerful as its patron god.

Scientific discoveries, such as the theory of relativity and quantum physics, drastically changed the worldview of scientists, causing them to realize that the universe was fantastically more complex than previously believed, and dashing the strong hopes at the end of the 19th century that the last few details of scientific knowledge were about to be filled in.

Among the film's strongest detractors was Jonathan Rosenbaum, who described it as " creepy " and claimed " this characterless world of Manhattan-Venice-Paris, where love consists only of self-validation, and political convictions of any kind are attributable to either hypocrisy or a brain condition, the me-first nihilism of Allen's frightened worldview is finally given full exposure, and it's a grisly thing to behold.

Both were Oxford men who knew the system inside out, and the close collaboration with which they worked was a function of their shared background and worldview.

Although the LPF was established post-9 / 11, Fortuyn had already developed a worldview based on the " clash between civilizations ", namely between " modernity " and Islam, or Western society and Islamic culture.

State propaganda initially used the appeal of scientific rationalism to argue that Falun Gong's worldview was in " complete opposition to science " and communism.

" A polarized depiction was created where the scientific worldview represented by Marxist-Leninism was legitimized as " moral and truthful ," while the Falun Gong discourse was " evil and deceptive.

He compares between Yosef and religious reformers such as Martin Luther and Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab, and claims that Yosef has adopted a religious restorative-reformist worldview.

" Comprachico " has been adopted as pejorative term used for individuals and entities who manipulate the minds and attitudes of children in a way that will permanently distort their beliefs or worldview.

After he adopted a worldview considered heretical by his fellow Tannaim and betrayed his people, the rabbis of the Talmud refrained from relating teachings in his name and referred to him as the " Other One " (, ).

In his most famous book, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century ( 1939 ), Miller adopted a cultural approach to illuminate the worldview of the Puritans, unlike previous historians who employed psychological and economic explanations of their beliefs and behavior.

Thus if we reason from the statement " Pegasus flies " to the statement " Pegasus exists ", we are not asserting that Pegasus is made up of atoms, but rather that Pegasus exists in a particular worldview, the worldview of classical myth.

Though cognitive scholars have made some attempts to take on board the idea that different languages have evolved radically different concepts and conceptual metaphors, they have on the whole remained tied up in the somewhat reductive concept of worldview which derives from the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

" A. T. Robinson argued in favor of ' the detaching of the Christian doctrine of God from any necessary dependence on a " supernaturalistic " worldview '.

It cites statements from Newton, Copernicus and others in favour of the Pythagorean worldview as evidence.

The standard criticism of this view is that an argument from evil is not necessarily a presentation of the views of its proponent, but is instead intended to show how premises which the theist is inclined to believe lead him or her to the conclusion that God does not exist ( i. e. as a reductio of the theist's worldview ).

No moral assertions, it is argued, can be explained by the relativist's own worldview ; they are instead derived from unconsciously " borrowed capital " from Christianity, proving the truth of the Christian worldview.

As to why liberals and conservatives view each other as incomprehensible on an issue-by-issue basis, Lakoff claims that this is due to each side failing to grasp the other side's worldview as well as not appreciating how different the other worldview is from its own.

Indeed one factor that distinguishes it from other theories of creativity is that it focuses on not just restructuring as it pertains to the conception of the task, but as it pertains to the worldview as a whole.

Thus people who would be considered " Germans ", with a common culture, language, and worldview different from that of the surrounding rural peoples, colonized trading towns as far north of present-day Germany as Bergen ( in Norway ), Stockholm ( in Sweden ), and Vyborg ( now in Russia ).

While contemporary conventional medicine has distanced itself from the less reductionistic and more vitalistic approach of traditional medicine, some areas of complementary medicine continue to espouse various guises of vitalistic concepts and worldview.

* Vitalism vs. Scientific Materialism – diametrically opposed worldview themes from Project Worldview

Even though Christian philosophy, Writing, and other fundamentals of European culture have been significantly influenced from Asia Minor and the Near East, a eurocentric worldview often seeks to show the superiority of Western customs to analogous developments in other, often earlier cultures.

He suggests that the scientific worldview is distinguished from a magical one by the scientific method and by skepticism, requiring the falsifiability of any scientific hypothesis.

In Spare's worldview, the " soul " was actually the continuing influence of " the ancestral animals " that humans had evolved from.

Totemism is a complex of varied ideas and ways of behaviour based on a worldview drawn from nature.

In a positive review of The Black Eyed Peas ' new-found style, Rolling Stone noted that since 2002, when the group " hired a blond bombshell named Stacy ' Fergie ' Ferguson and gave up their pursuit of backpack-rapper cred, they have made a kind of spiritual practice of recording futuristic songs – a total aesthetic commitment that extends from their garish wardrobes to their United Colors of Benetton worldview.

These basic beliefs cannot, by definition, be proven ( in the logical sense ) within the worldview precisely because they are axioms, and are typically argued from rather than argued for.

A form of omnipresent deity arises from a worldview that does not share ideas with mono-local deity cultures.

Crowning ceremonies arose from a worldview in which monarchs were seen as ordained by God to serve not merely as political or military leaders, nor as figureheads or historical symbols — a role played by most royals today — but rather to occupy a vital ( and very real ) spiritual place in their dominions as well.