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Culture: ethical issues

culture: ethical issues • • - High, personal, mass; Functions of culture: Reflection of reality; Socialization; Previous experience; Perfection of a human being.

culture: ethical issues • • - High culture: pre-history; Increase spiritual level; Mass culture: For everyone; Does not increase spirituality; Often cheap; Often a trend/fashion.

culture: ethical issues • Personal culture: - Is education equal to the level of personal culture? ; - Is morality and virtues are part of it?

culture: ethical issues • K. Jaspers: - What is a human being in the 20 th c. ? - A part of mass production? - Always “wears masks”? - Lost his/her identity? * “Modern Technology”

culture: ethical issues • M. Heidegger: (“The question of Technology”); • F. Nietzsche: a “phenomenon of the crowd”, “a man without a face”; • Literature: “mass writings” for common taste;

culture: ethical issues • Cultural diversity and interaction: - Reasons of diversity (climate, history, geography, psychology, religion, economic development; - West and East? Typical features; - Will the 21 st century be a dialogue?

Global problems of humanity: • • • Spiritual crisis; Mass diseases; Wars/terrorism; Environmental; Demography; * negative psychological problems.