Традиционният народен мироглед на българите
The Traditional National World Outlook of the Bulgarians

Summary/Abstract: The traditional national world outlook is a system of views and ideas about the world held by the masses of the people up to the end of the 19th century and in the early years of the 20th century. These views have a certain social definitiveness, are connected with a definite social milieu, also bear a definite ethical load and fill the functions of ethnical integration and differentiation. These two features, social and ethnical, can also be discovered in individual conceptions and ideas, as well as in the structure of the system of the world outlook itself, in the manner of uniting its elements, and in the functioning of the system, in its conduct as a whole, or that of its individual subsystems. In order to define the system of views on the world as a world outlook, it should be considered from an ontological and gnoseological aspect, in so far as a world outlook enters into the nucleus of every philosophy and its fundamental question is identical with the fundamental philosophical question. A world outlook consists of the following components: ideas about Nature, about society and about man and his inner "ego". Besides this, ideas about the world can be divided again into a synchronous aspect of rational knowledge and religious beliefs. Ideas about the world as the complete system of a world outlook arc distributed in three levels (utilitarian-practical, rational-empiric, appraising-normative), which correspond to the degree of realizing and assimilating the world. A life-giving principle, the lack of mysticism, the slight place occupied by the Christian religion, and the greater importance of pagan ideas and folk Christianity are characteristic of the world outlook of the Bulgarians. The destruction of the traditional system of world outlook leads to the destruction of the system of customs, a process which began as early as the turn of the century.

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