[...] So, many things can be thought and said about culture and its types. However, from the very beginning and in a few words, it should be pointed out that "culture" is the "works" and "behavior" of humans, necessarily within the framework of a community, life is promoted in "continuous" - and not "discontinuous" - evolutionary stages, and as much as possible independent of any abusive imposition. Therefore, within these frameworks, based primarily on human intelligence, every uplifting "creation" and every friendly "behavior" among people constitute culture. It is necessary and obvious that the path of this human being is simultaneously "material" and "spiritual", harmoniously reconciled with each other. Any division or disharmony in this relationship is, in a way, a social "schizophrenia". "Perceptible" and "intellectual" things, functionally united, are the very natural reality. In other words, "physical" and "metaphysical" go together, the latter always as an extension of the former. As far as I can understand, this is what Einstein meant with his famous quote, "Alle Physik ist Metaphysik"! In many cases, and especially in Christian teaching, metaphysics does not mean an unknown and inaccessible beyond, detached from physical reality. [...]
(excerpt from the author's preface)
Manufacturer
- Author
- Nikos A. Matsoukas
- Publisher
- Pournaras P. S.
- Theme
- Theology & Doctrine
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 122
- Language
- -
- Release Date
- -
- Publication Date
- 2006
- Dimensions
- 21x14 cm
- Pocket Size
- No
- Award
- -
- ISBN-13
- 9789602423448
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