Abstract

The comparative analysis of philosophical and mystical culture and the modern consumer society is realized in the article. The philosophical and mystical cul­ture reveals the spiritual essence of man, develops awareness, willpower and the highest spiritual qualities of the personality. The society of consumption dis­torts the essence of man, develops over-consumption, consumerism, escapism, transmutes a person into a thing. Mankind is in a state of choice, at the point of bifurcation, which determines the future of civilization. The philosophical and mystical worldview underlies idealistic and ideational cultures, which should re­place the modern sensual culture (the terms of P. Sorokin)

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