Open AccessCulture and civilization: the identity of opposites
Author(s) -
Alexander Chuprov
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
socium i vlastʹ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2949-0731
pISSN - 1996-0522
DOI - 10.22394/1996-0522-2020-5-95-104
Subject(s) - civilization , dialectic , contradiction , epistemology , attributive , etymology , novelty , philosophy , sociology , ideal (ethics) , identity (music) , western culture , aesthetics , linguistics , political science , law , theology
The article is focused on the fundamental and at the same time extremely controversial issue of social philosophy — conceptualizing the notions «civilization” and “culture”, their inseparable (dialectical) unity and contradiction. The specificity, or novelty, of the author’s approach is considering the phenomena of civilization and culture in the ontological aspect through the Aristotelian concept of form as the ideal essence of things, as well as in applying methods of linguistic analysis (etymology of concepts). The result of the study is identifying attributive, ontologically invariant features of any culture and civilization, as well as the ontological correlation of cultural and civilizational attributes.