A weltist is a world-maker who understands what worlds are and tries to reduce the suffering in them. I love the pun: welt is world in German and a painful injury in English, which packs the Indian intuition that all of samsara is suffering into one syllable. Weltists are more worm than eagle.
How the word moved
The word first appears in April 2019. In June 2020 I gave it a real definition, a first science of worlds, the study of samsara qua samsara, to take the place of the science of consciousness. Modest ambitions, as usual.
In my words
"Science reduces them; literature shrinks them and philosophy ignores them"
from The Weltist, 20 Jun 2020
"For the same reason, the world is the precondition for existence: to be is to be in a world."
from The Weltist, 20 Jun 2020
Related
- Inherited from Jakob von Uexküll - His Umwelt, the world as an organism lives it, is where the welt comes from.
- Related samsara - The weltist studies samsara qua samsara.
- Related earthworm view - More worm than eagle.
- Related worldmaking - The 2023 Socratus programme reuses the Weltist passages.
Still open
I'm quite confident about the intuition. The explanations could all be crap.