SPECIFICITY OF THE WESTERN TRADITION IN THE PROBLEMS OF COGNITION IN PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION
Y. I. Kolyuzhov
Keywords: Western knowledge, tradition of knowledge, cultural specificity of education
Pages: 35-41
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to describe the Western tradition of knowledge and the aspects of its mastering in Russian education. Evolution, specificity, and heterogeneity of knowledge are investigated in the traditions of the Western philosophical culture. Egocentrism, elitism, and the division of the world on Me and Not-me are predominant there. There are there masterpieces of great ego in the sphere of philosophy, art, religion, mystics, science, and technology. Also, there is rationalism and immorality, elitist-mass division of the world, and growing deconstructivism in the mass environment. The author follows and analyzes the Western tradition of knowledge and proves a thesis that, in the Russian education, we should master it on our cultural and historical basis.
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