Open AccessLIFE WORLD AND GLOBAL CIVILIZATION
Author(s) -
Algis Mickūnas
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
creativity studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2345-0487
pISSN - 2345-0479
DOI - 10.3846/2029-0187.2009.2.140-152
Subject(s) - civilization , natural (archaeology) , value (mathematics) , logical conjunction , set (abstract data type) , epistemology , computer science , modern life , life world , possible world , logical consequence , environmental ethics , sociology , geography , political science , philosophy , law , modernity , archaeology , machine learning , programming language
The article is designed to demonstrate that the Western modern life world is constituted by the reconstruction of the natural environment in accordance with formal logical rules that are not derivable from contingent facts. Logical rules are selected as techniques in terms of their value to fulfill “needs” and hence to shape the environment into a “technical life world” that becomes globalized as “scientific” demanding that the life worlds of the others develop to become modern and technical. This means that the globalized technical life world is not a set of facts but signitive systems of logical, non‐temporal and non‐spacial vectors of “communication” taking precedence over the material‐productive levels of any society.