A Present Day Philistine: Three Worlds of Ordinary Man

Ekaterina A. Batyuta –Cand. Sci. (Philosophy), Director of the Center for Practical Psychology and Psychoanalysis, Institute for Retraining and Advanced Training, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin (Yekaterinburg), Elena V. Belousova –Cand. Sci. (Culturology), Associate Prof. at the Chair of Philosophy, Bioethics and Culturology, Ural State Medical University (Yekaterinburg)
Year: 2021
DOI:
UDK: 130.2:17.03:316.7
Pages: 90-100
Language: russian
Section: Philosophy
Keywords: middlebrow, everyday life, consumer, digital environment, commonplace scientific views, commonplace philosophy, commonplace culture
Abstract
The article considers the phenomenon of a present-day man as a representative of three different worlds, which engross him and determine his worldview and perceptions. These three areas are associated syncretically; they interpenetrate and change over. However, each of them has its laws and uniqueness. The first reality is the economic one, a new world after the fourth industrial revolution, the digital economy. The second world comprises so-called commonplace scientific views with their specific attitude to the search for truth. Finally comes the third – cultural – world of a middlebrow richly represented in mass media activities and mass culture.
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