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Philosophy in the context of culture’s autonomous values
Philosophy in the context of culture’s autonomous values

Author(s): Marin Aiftincã
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: Culture; Value; Philosophy; Universal; Truth

Summary/Abstract: If culture is the whole of spirituality (of nation or mankind), philosophy is part of this whole together with the other spiritual values. Philosophy frees itself from this whole and, at times, rises over it by concepts. In this way philosophy is itself conscious of culture. Consequently philosophy is autonomous in the system of cultural values with which it has biunivocal relations. Arising out of the signs of one culture (national or regional), philosophy, in its aspirations towards knowledge and truth, expresses the universal. Under the negativist pressure of the present which is prevalent through the utilitarian, philosophy cannot abandon its finality. It remains to catch its time in thoughts, as Hegel has argued.

  • Issue Year: III/2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 171-176
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English