The Cultural Personality: Conceptual Ideas of P. Schafer
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https://doi.org/10.32461/2226-3209.1.2019.166891Keywords:
culture, art, all-around arts education, cultural personality, cultural personality development, cultural outlook, the Age of Culture.Abstract
The purpose of the article is to carry out a comprehensive analysis and to disclose scientific approaches and leading conceptual ideas of the modern Canadian culturologist Paul Schafer about the role of culture and art, which provides for a high level of development of the cultural personality. The methodology of the research is based on the axiological approach, which makes it possible to select the priority of the system of cultural, aesthetic, and artistic values that humanize, cultivate, and spiritualize a person-personality. Scientific novelty of the research is that for the first time in Ukraine the holistic scientific views of the modern Canadian culturologist D. Paul Schafer on the characteristics of the cultural personality in the period of the Age of Culture, as well as the role and importance of the art in the cultural process of mankind, have been analyzed. [P. Schafer’s monographs "The Age of Culture" and "The Cultural Personality" have been translated from English by the scientists of the Scientific Research Institute of Spiritual Development of Man and the lecturers of the Department of Foreign Languages and Professional Communication, Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University]. Conclusions. The article deals with P. Schafer’s main conceptual ideas on cultural personality development: the cultural personality is a necessary condition for the Age of Culture development; the art and arts education are the foundations for life of the cultural personality; the cultural personality presupposes existence of the cultural worldview that must stand above the economic worldview; the four main contexts of the research of culture as a "complex whole" are characterized (artistic, social, anthropological, ideological); the cultural personality is holistic, centered, authentic, unique, creative, altruistic, and humane; the priorities of the Age of Culture are defined; the culture is the key to the development of spirituality of a personality.
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