- Tytuł:
- The Artificial Enclave: Redefining Culture
- Autorzy:
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Gedi, Noa
Elam, Yigal - Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/451279.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2020-04-15
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Filozofii
- Tematy:
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brain
environment
evolution
inverse adaptation
society
symbols
tools - Opis:
- This article offers a new definition of culture which hinges on what we consider to be its most distinctive feature, namely its artificiality. Our definition enables us to resolve some of the main issues and controversies involved in the concept of culture and its course of development. We argue that the large human brain played a revolutionary role in inverting the course of natural adaptation of the human species. This dramatic turnabout allowed humans to set their own conditions of existence in their created environment; and one which unlike nature they were able to shape and dominate. We demonstrate the crucial part of language not merely in communication but in forming a web of meaningful symbols which gave rise to the human spiritual or metaphysical world. We depict human society as an unparalleled elaborate web of relationships which gave hominids an advantage over other species from the very beginning.
- Źródło:
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Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture; 2020, 4, 1; 70-87
2544-302X - Pojawia się w:
- Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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