Identitate și globalizare: o problemă metafizică a secolului XXI
Identity and Globalization as a metaphysical problem

Summary/Abstract: Our present history is characterized by complexity and dynamics. The phenomenon that creates our theoretical and empirical daily environment is globalization. To understand the relation between identity and globalization it is necessary to place ourselves in the hermeneutical site of culture. And this for two reasons. On the one hand, culture is directly affected by globalization and, on the other hand, it is culture that gives people’s community self‐identity.In this study, we try a conceptual clarification of the two terms and we will follow the relationships between them. In general, globalization as a process of civilization, with its basic components ‐ technology, information and interconnections of all social areas ‐ is considered a real danger of the cultural identity of the human community. Starting from the hermeneutics of Arnold Toynbee’s history, we try to identify answers to the challenge of globalization, responses whose comprehension and assumption affect the salvation of the human in us and the identity of our community to which we belong.

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