The values of the new civilization order. The inauguration lecture. Studies and Materials

Abstract

The lecture exposes such symptoms of contemporary world as the velocity of scientific and technical changes, globalization of human life, crisis like and conflict like situations, risky activities, anxiety, chaos of the human postures, behaviour, choices, consumerism and commercialization of life, infantilism, barbarization, manipulation of cultural life. In the reality specified above a new paradigm of the self has emerged, the self described as postmodern and the one that participates. The personality introduced as a self above has become the subject shaping and stimulating the cultural reality. The new personality is characterized by the easy with which they make decision, enterprise, openness to civilization challenges, criticism with reference to the surrounding reality.