There is a very close link between a Weltanschauung and philosophy, but this link is not, as Chyzhevs'kyi seems to assume, one of identity. Mythologies, Christianity, Dialectical Materialism are examples of ideologies transmitted by ritual, indoctrination, coercion, etc. Historically, such things as witch hunting, burning of heretics, religious wars and persecutions, and the contemporary suppression of dissidents in the Soviet Union are all cases of ideological warfare. A conclusion of a philosophical inquiry is not per se philosophy, but, at most, an ideology. Without the process of reasoning, an ideology is a husk without the kernel.
Philosophizing is a critical examination of Weltanschauungs .
The outcome of such testing may be a vindication of the examined Weltanschauung , or the substitution, or construction of another one. And so, although philosophy needs a Weltanschauung to examine, and it may result in a Weltanschauung , philosophy is not a Weltanschauung . Because neither Hohol', nor the trio of the Brotherhood or Saints Cyril and Methodius ever critically examined their own, or any other Weltanschauung , they are not, in my conception, philosophers. What I have said so far is an external criticism of Chyzhevs'kyi. I am juxtaposing my concept of philosophy with his.