The Impasse of Ancient Tragical Weltanschauung and Two Positive Ways out

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10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.1How to use a DOI?

Keywords

worldview; typology; monotheism; tragic; karma; values; hero; faith; subjectivity; historical psychology; philosophy

Abstract

The paper deals with the reconstructed logic of the historical conceptual change of ideal worldview types in the early history of Indian and Western civilizations. The primordial naturalistic outlook characterized by pre-reflexivity and a total neglect of human subjectivity was first superseded by elitist tragic or heroic Weltanschauung, within which emerged the first version of human personality as distinguished and separated from the outer world. The tragic vision of life, however, proved to be unfit to become universally accepted because of its unbearable burden of impersonal fate. We call this situation a tragic impasse. The further development of ideas demonstrates two positive attempts to solve this existential problem. These widely accepted alternatives are a monotheism with personal supranaturalistic God and a karmic worldview. Both suffice.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Andrei Paribok
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TI  - The Impasse of Ancient Tragical Weltanschauung and Two Positive Ways out
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2018)
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