life stance

English

Alternative forms

• lifestance

Etymology

life +‎ stance; coined in the mid-1970s by humanists interested in educational matters.

Noun

life stance (plural life stances)

1. The relation that one has with what he or she accepts as being of ultimate importance, the presuppositions and theory of this, and the commitments and practice of working it out in living.

Usage notes

The term was intended to be a shared label encompassing both religions and alternatives to religion, without discrimination in favour of either. A life stance differs from a worldview or a belief system in that the term life stance emphasizes a focus on what is of ultimate importance. Life stance differs from eupraxsophy in that the latter typically implies a strictly non-theistic outlook, whereas a life stance can be theistic or non-theistic, supernaturalistic or naturalistic.

Translations

relation to what one views as important

• Dutch: levensbeschouwing (nl)
• German: Lebensanschauung f
• Hungarian: életszemlélet (hu)
• Norwegian: livssyn (no)
• Swedish: livssyn (sv) c, livsåskådning c

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