Three­Dimensional Modelling of Cultural Space

Is based on understanding culture as a mode of being human. Deriving therefrom, the author defines five factors that determine a type of culture; those are relation to nature and modes of operation, community building, thinking and understanding. The content and structure of the latter may change depending on specific historical state of human society, namely pre­civilizational, civilizational and post­civilizational. This may be interpreted as a 2D model of cultural space. The third dimension is defined by coordinates of value and meaning; these are represented in sociocultural implications of a response given to the question as to what a human being is by different type of cultures.

mode of nature relation, operation mode, community, mode of thinking, mode of understanding, historical and cultural process coordinates, coordinates of evolution and history, value/meaning coordinates

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