A world view is a concept of the world

A worldview is a way of orienting a person in the world around him. It includes the most general knowledge of man about the world in general and about his place in it. A world view is a complex of representations that a person needs to assert himself in order to organize his behavior, activities and communication. Also, without it, it is impossible to determine the main direction in your life, to choose the line of prevailing behavior.

The most important components of which the world outlook and its structure consists:

- representation of the subject about the world;

- the system of values of the individual;

- a person's life position.

The world view in the understanding accepted at this stage exists as much as the very humanity itself. However, different historical periods filled it with different content. It always differed among social groups. The main types of worldview that have developed historically are religious, mythological, scientific and everyday.

The first was a mythological worldview. Ancient legends, legends about gods, about their omnipotence, about various heroes in figurative, metaphorical form expressed the perception of reality, the understanding of the world by a man who was at that level of development. Myths of different nations have many similarities. Also they are full of inconsistencies and contradictions, which, however, did not bother the first people at all. Most likely, then this type of consciousness was the only way of spiritual comprehension of reality. We can say that the mythological worldview is a complex of such ideas about the surrounding world, which are based on belief in divine powers, on fantasy.

But the farther the humanity went, the more it lost the old vision of the world (although some of its elements can still be found in the modern mass consciousness). Religion had a great influence on thinking. Religious worldview is, above all, a belief in higher powers and in the existence of a lower and a higher world. From the mythological it differs in that it induces a person to understand his differences from the natural world and to realize his belonging to the human race.

The ordinary worldview is more or less present on the first two levels of perception of the world. It consists of a set of views on reality, on human norms of behavior and is based on the experience of previous generations in many spheres of life. The range of everyday worldview is wider than mythological and religious. It reflects the experience, lifestyle and interests characteristic of certain social groups.

Simultaneously with the everyday, a scientific outlook is formed . This concept of the structure of the world, the role of an individual in it. At the heart of these representations lie scientific information. The development of science contributes to the development of this worldview.

All these historically formed ideas about the world have both positive and negative sides. For example, religious worldview and mythological perception of reality is distorted. But they help to maintain the connection between generations, consolidate and communicate norms of behavior in society. The scientific worldview is based on logic, on the rational interpretation of everything. But even this, rejecting intuitive knowledge, far from everything can reflect.

So there is a need to explain the world, applying rational and irrational thinking at the same time. Out of this need a philosophical worldview emerged. It complements everything that remained undisclosed in the previous types. Philosophical worldview embraces the attitude of the individual to the world and considers everything that is happening from the point of view of importance for man.