Global world change: a philosophical area

Abstract

The article analyzes the global changes that occurred in the second half of the 20th century, which led to the need to anticipate changes in the world through the prism of posing problems and putting forward certain priority philosophical categories, based on the property of philosophy to be the quintessence of the thought of the era. At a time when the concept of unshakable truth has given way to relative truths as ways of varying in the context of ongoing events, the importance and necessity of higher truth as an unattainable illusion has been lost. In accordance with this, the primacy of the cultural-historical context brought to the fore the concept of a multitude of truths. With the transition to postmodernism, the previously stable philosophical concepts that defined being and man as the subject of this being have undergone significant changes. Accordingly, the renewal of philosophical interpretations of the justification of the world and of man himself directly affects on the specifics of the development and functioning of all areas of human activity, including moral and legal norms, art and culture, science and technology. The most important context for the development of mankind was the disintegration of the ontological unity of the world, which once served as the unshakable foundation of existence. Another equally significant change seems to be a shift in emphasis from reason as such to the coexistence of political minds. This intensifies the phenomenon of alienation. The implosion of consciousness, which J. Baudrillard spoke about, led to the fact that human consciousness became torn, as a result of which fragmentation became the norm for perceiving the world and reproducing it in value orientations. The author believes that the first quarter of the 21st century reveals the essence of the reformatting of all existing lines of life connection – the relationship of man and nature, man and society, man and man, which is necessarily reflected in the interpretation of philosophical categories.