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Anschauung
[ahn-shou-oong, -uhng]
noun
direct or immediate intuition or perception of sense data with little or no rational interpretation.
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of Anschauung1
Example Sentences
Benfeyās contention, however, that ākonnte der Gedanke von der Dankbarkeit der Thiere schon tief genug auch im Occident einwurzeln, um auch in andere MƤrchen einzudringen und vielleicht selbst sich in Bildung von verwandten zur Anschauung zu bringenā20 should be kept in mind.
It is for this reason that throughout the primary course, we have confined ourselves to what the Germans call Anschauung, the close observation of examples with a view of provoking imitation or repugnance, and thus strengthening the force of habit.
Again, āAnschauungā has been rendered according to the context, either by āperceptionā simply, or by āintuition or perception.ā
The extreme section of the anti-Semites, who have given the movement its quasi-scientific name, declare that it is a racial struggleāan incident of the eternal conflict between Europe and Asiaāand that the anti-Semites are engaged in an effort to prevent what is called the Aryan race from being subjugated by a Semitic immigration, and to save Aryan ideals from being modified by an alien and demoralizing oriental Anschauung.
But for the Perception of Beauty, I always used Plato's word, which is the proper word in Greek, and the only possible single word that can be used in any other language by any man who understands the subject,ā'Theoria,'āthe Germans only having a term parallel to it, 'Anschauung,' assumed to be its equivalent in p.
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