# Worldview |  | A **Worldview** or a world-view or Weltanschauung is the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the whole of the individual's or society's knowledge, culture, and point of view. A worldview can include natural philosophy; fundamental, existential, and normative postulates; or themes, values, emotions, and ethics. | |-|-| | | wikipedia:: [Worldview](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldview) | ## Related [[Paradigm shift]], [[Conceptual framework]], [[Umwelt]] ## [[Great Chain of Being]]