Classic Philosophy and some Negative Characteristics of Contemporary Culture :: Philosophy Philosophical Papers

simple Philosophy and some Negative Characteristics of Contemporary CultureABSTRACT This root attempts to answer the place In what elan could classical philosophy be useful to overcome shortcomings of the fork up-day(a) culture? A response to this question is preceded by considerations about the meaning of the world culture as substantially as delineating much(prenominal) features of the contemporary culture and their origins which, in third estate opinion, atomic number 18 evidence of its crisis. If it is proposed to return to classical philosophy in order to amend the contemporary culture and humanity, it is because this philosophy, due to its specific character, through the acceptance of strong truth and real goodness as reasons for justifying both the order of learning and the moral order, establishes that which is called culture on the bases of realism and secures its bases against subjectivism, relativism and pragmatism. Within classical philosophy, human learns an essential truth about itself, namely that human beings atomic number 18 not exclusively happening events because of human nature and essence, but that humans are persons which constitute a certain ontic fundament for historic processes and guarantee identicalness of being.Issues concerning the relationship between philosophy and culture are of actual significance. The point is that, although philosophy is a component of culture, nevertheless, in view of its specific character, it is fictile it. Philosophy contributes to an outlook of culture, but the culture exerts an influence on the philosophy. Today, the failures of contemporary culture are not only heard but experient every day. Sometimes, to express the state of present day culture, it is said the present culture is ill. The origin of these shortcoming is seen in philosophy and its way of diffusion. For even if philosophy is not the only factor of the outlook of culture, it is yet one of its major causes. These circumst ances are enough, I think, to ask a reasonable question In what way could classic philosophy be useful to overcome shortcomings of the contemporary culture?The Word CultureThe devise culture is not quite clear. It is beyond this scope to define versatile meanings of it. It would require an analyzing review of numerous definitions found both in common language and in scientific literature. It is maintained that there are hundreds of such definitions. Their common feature seems to be that they refer to culture as related, more(prenominal) or less consistently to the spiritual life of man. In other words spiritual life is referred to a concrete soul or to a social group.