The phrase "ancient view" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a perspective or belief that originates from a long time ago, often in historical or philosophical contexts.
Example: "The ancient view of the cosmos was vastly different from our modern understanding, as it was heavily influenced by mythology and religion."
Alternatives: "historical perspective" or "traditional belief".
Although man tends to associate the soul with personal survival or continuity after death, there is an equally ancient view that emphasizes the continuity of life.
She described Chinese gardens as "cosmic diagrams, revealing a profound and ancient view of the world, and of man's place in it".
He echoes an ancient view that strife is good for humanity: bewailing Rome' s effeteness, Juvenal wrote: "Now we suffer the woes of long peace; luxury, more savage than war, has smothered us".
He affirms this point a few lines later, repeating the ancient view of number as multiples of the primordial "unity".
An ancient view still popular today is that moral knowledge must ultimately be based on the will or commandments of the Creator.
He further embraces the ancient view that those dicta entail a common substratum for all matter, as the composition and resolution of material things always yield matter.
According to ancient views, the myth came first, and the rite imitated or reenacted it.
The scholarly but very readable catalog delves into the profound differences between ancient views of childhood and those of today.
Often when such changes in performance are attributed to motivation, or to any of a number of factors called psychological, one's allegiance to ancient views of the nature of man may tempt him to think of mental factors disjoined and unrelated to any physical, energistic description of the organism.
For ancient views about definitions, see the essays in Charles 2010.
This work relies on results in experimental social psychology to call into question the conceptions of character and virtue that are of concern especially to the ancient Greek moralists and to contemporary philosophers whose work derives from ancient views.
