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mitwelt

 

the middle ground between the observer and the world we apprehend.

 

In many ways this is the social creation of humans or other social creatures who through behavior, signals, language or rituals recreate an order in the world that is apprehended by other beings of the same species or language group.

A shared set of assumptions about who and what we are, who we are supposed to be, what we are to do, or what we desire to become.

The German word "mit" refers to putting together implied by the word "with." Thus, the mitwelt is the world we live with as a shared conscious experience and as an unconscious recognition of relations among people, places and things.

Thus this is the world with which we associate our comprehension of one another and the events that tie us together with one another in a social unit.

Without the conceptual meaning of a mitwelt there can be no community, language or heritage that people recognize among one another.

The concept clearly implies that learning must take place informally and formally, for people to experience the extent of the mitwelt's influence on individual members of society.

 


German Gestalt Psychology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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