Published : 2010-11-30

The Basic Understanding of Culture: A Philosophical Grasp

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The paper discusses the problem of a basic understanding of culture that functions  in realistic philosophy. The paper consists of two parts: the first considers the issue of culture from the  historical side, including the etymological context of the concepts of „culture” and „civilization”; the second  analyzes the issue of culture for a system side.  The human being-person (rational and free) is then indicated as the subject (creator) of culture. Through referring to human acts connected to the workings of reason and will one makes a genetic analysis of cultural creative activity and delineates realms of culture.  The paper also  analyzes essential moments of culture-creative activity and determines a general understanding of culture which in its primary sense consists in intellectualization (rationalization) of nature. It is then argued that an analogical understanding of culture is consistent with those particular understandings of culture which occur in various fields of cultural studies.

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culture, civilization, human being – the creator of culture



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Daszkiewicz, W. (2010). The Basic Understanding of Culture: A Philosophical Grasp. Roczniki Kulturoznawcze, 1, 43–64. Retrieved from https://czasopisma.tnkul.pl/index.php/rkult/article/view/4425

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Roczniki Kulturoznawcze · ISSN 2082-8578 | eISSN 2544-5219 | DOI: 10.18290/rkult

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