Meanings
- uncountablethe set of ideas and presumptions one has about humans
1986, E. H. Andrews, Werner Gitt, W. J. Ouweneel, Concepts in creationism, Presbyterian & Reformed Pub Co However, if the world-view of the scientist was totally changed, this could not be without an effect upon the view of man (Menschanschauung) in the field of the humanities.
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My Weltanschauung, my Menschanschauung, did not tolerate such shoulders in women, such arms, such power.
2005, Richard Stern, Almonds to Zhoof: Collected Stories, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 462He notes that every culture has its own Menschanschauung (view of the human being) that its^([sic]) uses to resocialize and heal its people.
2008, Ricardo Carrillo, PhD, PhD; Jerry Tello, MS, Family Violence and Men of Color: Healing the Wounded Male Spirit, Second Edition, Springer Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 109This Menschanschauung, as it might be called, presupposes that man's suffering is an outcome of his experience, that mental suffering should be relieved, that man has some freedom of choice and decision, that he can control himself to some ...
1973, Joseph Lyons, Experience: an introduction to a personal psychology, HarperCollins Publishers
Origin
- GermanMenschanschauung
- EnglishMenschanschauung
From German Menschanschauung.
More words from German
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Danish menneskesyn, menneskeanskuelse
- menneskesynhuman-view
- menneskeanskuelsehuman-view
German Menschanschauung
- Menschanschauunghuman-view
Cite this entry
Menschanschauung. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Menschanschauung
“Menschanschauung.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Menschanschauung. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Menschanschauung,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Menschanschauung.
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