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Glossary entry

Russian term or phrase:

Воззренология

English translation:

worldview studies

    The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2019-01-21 12:54:08 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)
Jan 17, 2019 23:15
5 yrs ago
Russian term

Воззренология

Russian to English Social Sciences Philosophy
Это такой предмет (и наука), стало быть.
Дремуч я стал, однако...

Автор воззренологии - отрасли знания о миропонимании, мировоззренческих проблемах бытия - Бокань Юрий Иванович (1945 г.р.), доктор философских наук, общественный деятель, активный разработчик путей решения современных проблем эпохи глобализации. Один из подписантов "Открытого обращения представителей общественности против информационного подрыва доверия к судебной системе Российской Федерации".

Более 30 лет посвятил созданию витасофии (вита - лат. жизнь + софия - греч. мудрость) - система универсальных взглядов, дающих личности внутреннюю устойчивость на основе уважения к себе, окружающим, социальному и природному миру. Это - свод передающихся из поколения в поколение истин, отражающих жизненный опыт человеческой устойчивости, хранимый мировой мудростью. Как философское направление, витасофия - стоицизм эпохи глобализации. Разработчик принятой Правительством Москвы Городской программы толерантности (2002-2004 годы), автор создания на ее инновационно-технологической базе Концепции проектирования глобальной мировоззренческой безопасности (устойчивости) современной цивилизации.

Короче говоря, чем бы дитё не тешилось, лишь бы не руками...
Но перевод, однако же, придумать надо.
Спасибо всем за вдумчивую помощь!
Proposed translations (English)
1 +2 worldview studies

Discussion

Rachel Douglas Jan 18, 2019:
Nah... The only "grave" danger in either language is that science will be buried forever. But, back to the challenge at hand: With the same ease with which Russians concoct fields of research and dub them "X-логия", English-speaking researchers think up various types of "studies" (in the sense of a field of study, not only a particular study/исследование). "Post-feminist studies," "gender fluidity studies," "device interaction studies," etc. They all sound quite scientific and simultaneously, many of them, crazy.
IrinaN Jan 18, 2019:
:-) https://rdp4v.livejournal.com/1447498.html

The grave danger of Rachel's answer lies in its "face value" - it sounds sane and even scientific, as opposite to Scientology where the term itself should be considered a legally justified reason to institutionalize the followers.

Rachel, by all means, no pun intended.
Mark Vaintroub (asker) Jan 18, 2019:
Миша, готов подписаться под каждым словом (поэтому и написал, что я стал дремуч), но перевести все равно придется... А за сим останавливаюсь на варианте Rachel.
The Misha Jan 18, 2019:
To be sure, this is junk pseudo-science promoted by the publish or perish mantra (talk about a different flavor of #metoo!). With this in mind, have you considered simply transliterating this gem as "vozzrenology" (or perhaps even "nozdreology," because who is really going to notice the difference?:)))) and then just continuing with the rest of the text as it gives the explanation of what that animal is. I mean, what's the point of inventing a soundbite for something that does not exist and that no one ever heard of, or even recycling an existing term that may evoke totally different references, as in that eating dirt and sand example Rachel has given?
Mark Vaintroub (asker) Jan 17, 2019:
Ага, Ирина! Значит не я один такой...
:-)
IrinaN Jan 17, 2019:
Ну Марк! :-) Я-то думала, ничто не побьет сайентологию... Ан нет. Вопрос должен был быть задан под рубрикой "Диагноз".

Proposed translations

+2
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Selected

worldview studies

Yikes! I don't know whether to put "I am guessing" (i.e., making this up) or "High" - because evidently many thousands of writers have used the phrase "worldview studies" - https://www.google.com/search?biw=864&bih=362&ei=kBZBXOnkPKP... Whether they mean the same thing Yuri Bokan means by it, I can't tell you. In any event, why not?

What are you going to do with "витасофия"? I was going to tell you that "vitasophy" has a long history, going back at least to a 1902 book, but it turns out that that volume said that the "distinctive feature" of "vitasophy," a system of belief popular in the city of St. Louis, was "the eating of dirt on sand, for the stomach's sake"! Other sources have it as the study of certain types of magic. Evidently lots of Germans like to write articles about "Vitasophie," also chiefly in connection with magic.

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Note added at 54 mins (2019-01-18 00:09:56 GMT)
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Correction to citation: "dirt or sand."
Peer comment(s):
agree Jack Doughty
6 hrs
Thanks, Jack.
agree Vladyslav Golovaty : https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Картина_мира
17 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks, Rachel!"
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