The dialogue between the ideals of modern culture and the Enlightenment

Abstract

The article examines the general and the special in the modern culture and culture of the Enlightenment; conditions for the dialogue and understanding between the modern culture and the culture of the Enlightenment. The modern culture, which is a result of the development of ideas that arose during the Enlightenment, on the one hand, continues these ideas, on the other, it critically rethinks them. Proclaiming the ideas of progress, development of society and the person himself based on his reason, they could not take into account the contradictions of the development of civilization. The basis of the European culture is the pursuit of freedom as the highest value. All political, economic, social and cultural discussions revolve around the concept of freedom. The degree of development of the society itself is determined by the amount of freedom available to its members. In this case, the meaning of the concept of freedom is considered as political and economic freedom. The article presents an analysis of the educational concept of freedom, which establishes semantic links with the understanding of freedom, which has developed within the framework of modern discourse. The concepts central to the educational understanding of freedom are explored: individual autonomy, individual rights, private sphere, social contract, the state of nature and natural man as a subject of freedom.