Abstract
The article discusses the future of European civilization on the basis of the theoretical views of O. Spengler (“cultural ages” and “fate”), A. Toynbee (soul and Prometheus impulse), N. Berdyaev (“barbarism”, “culture”, “civilization and religious transformation”), as well as certain representatives of postmodernism, who clearly indicate the crisis of the cultural values of our contemporaneity: J. Derrida, J. F. Lyotard, M. Foucault. There is made an attempt at formulating the dominant values of the western European civilization, namely the dominant values that have crystallized from Antiquity to modern dimensions of modern man such as autonomy, self-determination of the individual, and the idea of an active-creative beginning and the possibility for their transformation following the example of eastern cultures. Using the historical and analytical method, the study outlines critical global issues (ecological, anthropological, educational, etc.), which require serious reconsideration of the value priorities, such as the ideal of the transformation of nature. Special attention is paid to certain ideals and principles of man's attitude to nature and to themselves, coming from the Eastern cultural traditions. The main conclusion that can be drawn is that only the dialogue between the West culture and the East culture would be the salvation of our civilization.
Highlights
Why do we get so excited about the issue of the future of our European civilization? Probably because few are the things that interest a person as much as their fate something which brings too many unknowns
Our contemporary civilization is responsible for the continuation of the idea of a universal humanism
The great French anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss logically raises the question: "What would we leave to the coming generations as evidence of the ups of our civilization, before we, or our successors, have malevolently destroyed it? The purity of the elements, the diversity of living creatures, the gracefulness of nature and the decency of the people!" [14]
Summary
Why do we get so excited about the issue of the future of our European civilization? Probably because few are the things that interest a person as much as their fate (fatum) something which brings too many unknowns. Why do we get so excited about the issue of the future of our European civilization? - limited freedom is in the history of mankind - there are two real historical options: decline or advancement. Always, on the verge of historical transitions, in ages of crisis, in times of change of centuries and millennia, there arises the question of the future and its direction, its vision The end of History and the Last Man; A. An analysis of the concepts of civilization development by O. Kamyou affirms the adherence of the spiritual principle as an integrative center of European culture, introducing an excessive assessment of the results of global change
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