p.
26
Ancient Culture and European Civilization: The Ideas of M.K. Petrov
The article deals with the main issues of continuity and unity of ancient culture and European civilization. The appeal to the fundamental ideas of M.K. Petrov makes it possible to reconstruct the main events of the cultural history of the West. The author,
following Petrov, refers to them the system of determinism, open and grounded in ancient Greek philosophy. The underlying attitudes towards social creativity, innovation and the prohibition of plagiarism. Theology as a synthesis of the creed and Greek wisdom, a kind of propaedeutics to the creed and the subsequent rejection in the XVII century of Aristotelian propositions. They do not meet the new requirements and proclaim the beginning of a new era – a radical turn to practical needs, "fruitful experiments" and the destruction of the limited Aristotelian universe of thought. So Europe, and after it other countries in which the transplantation of science took place, entered the modern world of uncontrolled technological renewal and social acceleration. The basis of Petrov's conclusions, according to the author of the article, was his denial of the thesis about the uniformity of civilizational development (“all civilizations go the same way”). The theoretical propositions that science is not an obligatory result of civilizational development, being a purely European invention, are based on M.K. Petrov's long-term research in the fi eld of the history of philosophy,
culture and science.
following Petrov, refers to them the system of determinism, open and grounded in ancient Greek philosophy. The underlying attitudes towards social creativity, innovation and the prohibition of plagiarism. Theology as a synthesis of the creed and Greek wisdom, a kind of propaedeutics to the creed and the subsequent rejection in the XVII century of Aristotelian propositions. They do not meet the new requirements and proclaim the beginning of a new era – a radical turn to practical needs, "fruitful experiments" and the destruction of the limited Aristotelian universe of thought. So Europe, and after it other countries in which the transplantation of science took place, entered the modern world of uncontrolled technological renewal and social acceleration. The basis of Petrov's conclusions, according to the author of the article, was his denial of the thesis about the uniformity of civilizational development (“all civilizations go the same way”). The theoretical propositions that science is not an obligatory result of civilizational development, being a purely European invention, are based on M.K. Petrov's long-term research in the fi eld of the history of philosophy,
culture and science.
antiquity, tradition, culture, civilization, rationalism, refl ection, personality, philosophy, science, education