Human activity has both material and spiritual principles and the spiritual side of the activity has always been very important for the public life of society and the individual.The philosophy of helping to realize the culture itself - in fact one of the main questions of philosophy has always been a problem confronts whether material or spiritual element complements it.The place and role of philosophy in the culture since ancient times has been controversial due to the process of development of social relations.Particularly important philosophical study of this problem becomes in our time.
Even Plato formulated the concept of spirituality as the world of ideas, images and concepts that a person remembers, and the more a person close to these ideas, the more he becomes spiritual.Ideas from the perspective of Plato are the basis and purpose of all first elements.So, a great philosopher justified the primacy of spirituality.Since then, in theory philosophy performs the functions of protection and creation of civilization.After all, the place and role of philosophy in the culture consists in the fact that it tries to link this area outlook and values, as well as solve the problem of the ontology of civilization, to understand that it is in material and spiritual culture refers to the true values of the person.From the successful search for a constructive solution to this problem depends on conditions of safety and survival of the cultural environment of mankind.
mission philosophy, its value in the social sphere is the anthropological vocation of this theoretical outlook.It should help a person create their own world and establish it not only as beings with intelligence, consciousness and self-consciousness, but also as a highly moral and emotionally sensitive personality.Therefore, the place and role of philosophy in the culture can not be overestimated, especially in relation to the formation of the human person.It awakens a person to creative, constructive understanding of himself, of the world, social practices and social progress in the future.The same Plato in the dialogue "Timaeus" once said that philosophy is such a gift from the gods to the human race, than whom there was and never will be.
Thus, the fundamental role and place of philosophy in culture encourages it constantly require the person to replenish their knowledge about the world and the "homo sapiens", but because of the constant work on myself.For this philosophy teaches us to think creatively, independently, all the while staying in the search.And in this age of crisis and exacerbation of various global problems philosophy is also required to analyze the margins "instrumental" and "pragmatic" attitude to nature and the environment, and do not ignore the possible apocalypse, and turn into a "philosophy of life."
separate issue in this area is the relation of philosophy and science.If the individual sciences are exploring various phenomena in order to subsequently could practically apply the knowledge to use them to meet the needs of man, philosophy explores the world as a kind of integrity.It aims to give a general idea of what the world is finite if he is knowable whether, and how, is there any point in its existence and in human life, and how a person should live this life.In addition, science itself and its problems arising are an additional source of philosophical knowledge.Science and philosophy have a common discourse - they are based on theoretical reasoning, logical concepts operate.
Religion was an earlier form of the world of humankind.It also comprehends being as integrity, but above all she is interested in a different, noumenal and not the phenomenal world of ideal essences inaccessible senses and perceived by faith and understandable in some aspects of intelligence.This rationale is called theology of faith, relying on the philosophy.Modern religious philosophy is a modernized version of theology, and, at the same time raises the characteristic philosophy of global problems, raises questions about the human being, the relationship between man and the world (such as neo-Thomism), but sees them through the prism of "primary values" - faithand the love of God.
