Abstract
Human sociality can be understood as an organism. Almost all aspects of life can be understood in a phenomenological sense as part of a life system. An appropriate perspective for considering life and interpreting social reality is extremely important in determining direction and orientation for mankind. The aim of this paper is to describe a new methodological point of view discover the natureof social reality in the study culture in Indonesia. In taking a perspective from philosophy, this research endeavors to provide a new perspective in the study of local wisdom in Indonesia. This paper presents a philosophical view on approaching the study of local wisdom (kearifanlokal): first, human social systems are systems of self-reference; second, human sociality is actualized in social systems that are contingent. Local wisdom can be viewed as a social and communicative system that produces a kind of self-organization (autopoesis) within a culture.
Highlights
Culture and all of its products are the result of the process of human life
Knowledge about local wisdom achieved through research from a number of fields of study tends to produce conclusions based on particular representations of this aspect of culture
Starting from a philosophical perspective, from the philosophy of human beings, this research will contribute to the study of local wisdom by introducing a new methodological approach based in philosophical perspectives that can open new theoretical avenues in the study of local wisdom as an aspect of human culture
Summary
Culture and all of its products are the result of the process of human life. The worlds that humans inhabit influence the way that people live. The quality of human cultural life expanded rapidly with the advent of communication systems based in language, as language use requires symbolic and abstract thinking. Local wisdom functions as an answer to the challenges of everyday life as well as the actualization of life systems because it is a framework for responding to outside elements while still maintaining a coherent cultural identity into the future. Knowledge about local wisdom achieved through research from a number of fields of study tends to produce conclusions based on particular representations of this aspect of culture. This tendency towards specialization and compartmentalization of different approaches to examining local wisdom produces results that provide only a partial understanding of the phenomenon. Starting from a philosophical perspective, from the philosophy of human beings, this research will contribute to the study of local wisdom by introducing a new methodological approach based in philosophical perspectives that can open new theoretical avenues in the study of local wisdom as an aspect of human culture
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