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Introduction. In the context of understanding modern spiritual crises and ideological searches that have become a consequence of globalization processes, the issues of correlation, interrelation and the current state of such fundamental philosophical categories as “spiritual values” and “civilization” are considered. In the Philistine understanding, these terms are often perceived as identical, but for philosophical and humanistic discourse, their differentiation is a matter of principle, which has become one of the debatable problems of humanitarian knowledge. The purpose of the article is to actualize the preservation of the spiritual and value aspects of human existence. The research methodology is based on a cultural and civilizational approach with the application of dialectical and structural-functional methods to the phenomena under study. Discussion. Various points of view on the phenomena of civilization (“spiritual values”, “globalization”, “spirituality”, “man”, “globalization”, “spiritual crisis”, etc.) are considered; the presence of extremely polar opinions in the assessments of the relationship between spiritual values and civilization is noted: from their complete separation and opposition to the reduction to a single a historically determined concept. Conclusion. The understanding of spiritual values and civilization as interrelated and mutually conditioned concepts, different in essence, but not oppositional to each other, is due to the dependence of a Person on civilization as an objective external pressure factor. Spiritual values act as a subjective essence, creative expressions of ideas, even in spite of civilizational dogmas. In the conditions of modern civilizational challenges, the issue of preserving the spiritual and value aspects of being is being actualized.