[German Version]
I. Philosophy
The word Weltbild (“worldview”; more lit. “world picture”) is already found in early medieval German; it is defined as a “conceptual view of the world that emerges from the totality of impressions made by the world and ideas of one’s Weltanschauung” (DWb 28 [14.1.1], 1955, 1553). Its meaning is thus relat…