The phrase "ancient worldview" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing historical perspectives, beliefs, or understandings of the world held by ancient cultures or civilizations.
Example: "The ancient worldview of the Greeks was deeply intertwined with their mythology and understanding of the cosmos."
Alternatives: "historical perspective" or "archaic outlook".
This insight undermined the ancient worldview, which found its perfect representation in tragic drama, where characters bring about their own ruin because they are fated to do so.
Yoginder Sikand, a scholar who has written extensively about Indian madrasas, said Darul Uloom trained students in an ancient worldview, using centuries-old commentaries to teach the Koran or other texts, rather than more contemporary analyses that try to apply Islam to modern concerns.
The creation story in Genesis, to take the most important example, is embedded within an ancient worldview that contains primitive scientific ideas that we have rejected.
This ancient worldview, according to which the human body, the microcosm, was an exact copy of the surrounding God-created macrocosm, played a fundamental role in the field of early modern knowledge about the human body.
Thus modern Christianity, having inherited a body of doctrines developed in the framework of ancient worldviews that are now virtually defunct, lacks any philosophy of comparable status in terms of which to rethink its beliefs.
The three dominant insights that Scheler wishes to unify are (1) the human being as "tool maker" (homo faber), the insight of Darwinian evolution and science, (2) the human being as rational animal, the insight directing the ancient Greek worldview, and (3) the human being as child of God, the insight of the Judeo-Christian worldview.
In the ancient Middle Eastern worldview, gods could become mortal, and men could become gods.
Rooted in an ancient dualistic worldview whose philosophical inadequacy has been harder to detect until recently than its social and legalistic inequities, Western religious categories have been inextricably bound up with a certain metaphysical exigency.
Start seeing your surroundings with an open mind-heart (cf. ancient Jewish worldview).
In the ancient Judaic worldview, Wright notes, the two dimensions intersect and overlap so that the divine bleeds over into this world.
In my previous post, I spoke about A Lifeway of Flower and Song, which presented the ancient Mesoamerican worldview of deep appreciation for all life as both sacred and dying.
