Life-world

Life-world: Concept deployed by some continental philosophers like Husserl and Habermas which does not refer to life but to background beliefs.

See Life-Ground.

Source: What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems: Oxford, 2004-11.