Synthesis philosophica, Vol. 23 No. 1, 2008.
Original scientific paper
The Role of Culture in the Post-Modern World. Its Impact on the Development of Human Potentialities
Zagorka Golubović
; Belgrade, Serbia
Abstract
An anthropological approach to the place of culture in the process of man’s humanization will be discussed: what are the benefits of the modern age development and which problems arise in postindustrial and still technological civilization? What has been changed as far as the fundamental role of culture in the human world is concerned: a) when culture has become an industrial product in term of “mass culture”; and b) under the influence of a postmodern relativism (marginalizing universal values and morality, and instead focusing on “preferences” and narative discourse)? The consequences of these changes are to be analyzed from the point of view of substantial human potentialities as creativity and imagination, frames of references regarding meaning of life, multidimensional nature of human character structure, freedom of personality vs. vulgarized individualism, etc. The concluding question states: whether culture has become submitted to the economism or to politics, instead of being their fundation?
Keywords
Culture; humanization; development; human potentialities; post modern world
Hrčak ID:
30800
URI
Publication date:
23.7.2008.
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