Culture: A Drama of Nature and Person / / Piotr Jaroszyński.

• Superior document: Philosophy of History and Culture ; 40
• VerfasserIn: Jaroszyński, Piotr ,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophy of History and Culture ; 40.; Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (301 pages) :; illustrations.

This monograph represents a rare, classical-philosophical approach to culture. It is grounded in philosophical realism and emphasizes personalism as a true achievement of philosophical anthropology. Employing the apparatus of the history of philosophy, science and religion, the author demonstrates t...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Editor's Preface
• Introduction
• Part 1: Culture in Science
• 1 Sciences concerning Culture
• 1 Particular Sciences concerning Culture
• 2 Philosophy of Culture
• 2 Culture: A History of the Term and Concept
• 1 From the Cultivation of the Soil to the Cultivation of the Soul
• 2 Culture and Cultus
• 3 From the Culture of the Mind to the Culture of Mankind
• 4 From National Culture to Mass Culture
• 5 Civilization and Culture
• 3 Selected Definitions of Culture
• 1 Social Dimension of Culture
• 2 Transmission of Culture
• 3 Culture and Values
• 4 Culture and Symbol
• 5 Culture and Meaning
• 6 Culture and Behavioral Models
• 7 Culture and Cultural Fields
• 8 Culture and Person
• Part 2: Theories of Culture
• 4 From Mythology to Philosophy: Nature vs. Culture in Antiquity
• 1 Nature and Man
• 2 From Negation to Apotheosis of Nature (Empedocles and the Sophists)
• 3 Divine Origins of Culture (Plato)
• 3.1 Philosophical Variant
• 3.2 Mythological Variant
• 4 "With Reason and Téchne" (Aristotle)
• 5 The Soul Is God (Plotinus)
• 5 Between Philosophy and Theology: Christianity
• 1 In Search of Perfection
• 2 Natura Corrupta (Thomas Aquinas)
• 3 Towards Anti-Cosmism (Manichaeism and Gnosis)
• 4 Natura Totaliter Corrupta (Protestantism)
• 6 Between Philosophy and Ideology
• 1 Nature Worship: Nature Is Perfect
• 2 Apotheosis of Culture: Culture Produces Nature
• 2.1 Individualism (Sartre)
• 2.2 Further Perspectives of Positioning of the Concept of Culture
• 2.2.1 Collectivism (Marxism)
• 2.2.2 Beyond Nature: Functionalism (Cassirer)
• 3 Recapitulation
• Part 3: Foundations of Culture: Truth, Goodness, Beauty
• Introduction to Part 3
• 7 Truth
• 8 Goodness
• 1 Finalism
• 2 Emanationism
• 3 Creationism
• 9 Beauty
• Part 4: Cultural Fields
• Introduction to Part 4.
• 10 Science as a Cultural Field
• 1 Four Conceptions of Science
• 1.1 Science as Cognition by Causes
• 1.1.1 The Science-Producing Question: Διά Τί [Día Ti]
• 1.1.2 Causes and Particular Sciences
• 1.1.3 Causes and Philosophy
• 1.2 Science: From "How Many?" to "How?"
• 1.3 Science: The Question of a Priori Conditions
• 1.4 Science: The Question "Why Not?"
• 2 Negation of Science: Postmodernism
• 11 Cultural Fields: Morality
• 1 Ethics: Goodness or Value?
• 2 Economy: For the Good of the Family
• 3 Economy: Family as the Subject
• 4 Relations within the Family
• 5 Public Life: Types of Political Systems
• 6 Dispute over the Common Good: Individualism, Collectivism, Personalism
• 7 Dispute over Democracy
• 12 Cultural Fields: Productive Action (Ποίησις)
• 1 Scope and Purposes of Productive Action
• 2 Tools and the Capacity for Rational Thinking
• 3 From Copying to Creating
• 13 Religion as a Cultural Field
• 1 What Is Religion?
• 1.1 "Religion" and Related Words
• 1.2 Various Interpretations of the Word "Religion"
• 2 Religion: Constitutive Elements
• 3 Classical Definition of Religion
• 4 Reasons for Religiosity
• 5 Philosophy on Immortality
• 6 The End-Purpose of Religion
• 7 Against Religion
• 8 Religion and Culture
• 9 Existence of God: From Faith to Metaphysics
• 10 God and Sacrum
• 11 Religion and Holiness
• 12 Religion and Examples to Follow
• 13 Religion as a Virtue (from Cicero to St. Thomas)
• 14 Religion as the Focal Point of Culture
• 15 Religion and Other Cultural Fields
• 15.1 Science and Religion
• 15.2 Πρᾶξις and Religion
• 15.3 Ποίησις and Religion
• 16 Religion: Towards the Fulfillment of the Person
• 14 Culture: For the Person, but Person How Conceived?
• 1 The Person: From the Mask to Self
• 1.1 Theater
• 1.2 Privileges
• 1.3 In the Image of God.
• 2 Selected Philosophical Conceptions of the Person
• 2.1 The Person Is Not a Part
• 2.2 The Person Is Not a Thing
• 2.3 The Person Is Not a Totality
• 2.4 The Person Is Not a Tool
• 2.5 The Person Has Its Dignity and Its End-Purpose
• 2.6 The Person Is a Self
• 2.7 The Person without Own Self?
• 2.8 The Self of a Rational Nature
• 15 In the Trap of Nihilism
• 1 Personalism Threatened
• 2 What Is Nihilism?
• 2.1 Etymology
• 2.2 Nothingness: From Metaphysics to Ontology
• 3 Philosophical Nihilism: From a Notion to a System
• 3.1 From Atheism to Nihilism
• 3.2 Nihilism and the Negation of Culture
• 3.2.1 Nihilism and the Negation of Being
• 3.2.2 Nihilism and the Negation of Nature
• 3.2.3 Nihilism and the Negation of the Subject, Person and Culture
• 3.2.4 Nihilism and Christianity
• 3.2.5 Nihilism and Western Civilization
• 3.2.6 Nihilism and Its Masks
• 3.3 Nihilism and Nietzsche
• Epilogue: A Theology of Culture: Towards Divinization of Nature
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Online Reference Sites
• Index.