Traditionally, the Latin word cultura is translated as ” cultivation”. Sometimes other meanings of this word are mentioned: “education”,” development”, “ennobling”,” reverence”, “care”,” decoration”, “refinement”,” nutrition”, “care”,” lifestyle”, etc. Such a wide field of meanings was obtained due to the ambiguity of the original concept – the verb colere (1st person singular-colo), which originally meant “to live”, “to dwell”, and only then – “to dress up”, “to decorate”, “to improve”, “to fulfill”, “to observe”, “to worship”, “to celebrate” and even “to please”. With such positive meanings, the word cultura was used by the ancient Romans. However, in Ancient Greece, the related word kolos was used in a completely different meaning – “crippled”,” crippled”.
Thus, the oldest meaning of the word cultura is a change, a remaking of the natural, the natural both for the better and for the worse. In this respect, the ancient world clearly distinguished the concepts of natura, as the sphere of the natural, the natural, untouched by man, and cultura, as the sphere of the application of human forces, the sphere of a changed nature. And today it is very important to understand that any change introduced by man into nature is both destruction and creation at the same time.
In this regard, I recall one of the Chinese myths. It is described in the fourth-century BC Taoist work Chuang Tzu. According to this myth, Hu, the Emperor of the North Sea, and Shu, the Emperor of the South Sea, often met in the Middle World of Wu Huntun, the Great Chaos. Seeing that he was imperfect and wanting to thank him, the emperors Hu and Shu decided to drill (according to other versions, punch) several absolutely necessary holes in the body of Huntun. With great care, they made openings for sight and breathing, hearing and feeding, speech, smell, reproduction, and excretion. Everything worked out well. But Huntun died. This is the story of one of the first attempts to cultivate the world.
Culture is a set of achievements of mankind in industrial, social and spiritual life, in accordance with which material, social and spiritual culture are distinguished.
Culture is a kind of sum of the activity of the human mind, which combines positive aspects and is the opposite of negative manifestations of human activity.
Culture has a cumulative character, it is built and modified throughout human history, summing up and enriching the accumulated experience.
Culture is a generalizing concept for the forms of human life created and created by us in the process of evolution. Culture is defined as moral, moral and material values, skills, knowledge, customs and traditions. Often the term “culture” is used to describe a certain historical epoch: “medieval culture”, “modern culture”, etc. Culture also describes peoples: the culture of the Goths, Slavic culture, etc. In addition, culture can also refer to the spheres of human activity: political culture, art culture.
The word “culture” comes from the Latin cultura — cultivation, upbringing, education, development, veneration. Culture is a historically defined level of human development. Culture is expressed in the forms of organization of people's lives and the spiritual and material values they create. It is the presence of culture that distinguishes humans from animals. The study of culture is carried out by the science of cultural studies.
Culture is the level of mental and moral development of an individual. Sometimes they say-a person of low culture, that is, a person with a low level of intelligence and / or bad manners.
Culture is the cultivation or cultivation of a plant under human supervision. For example, agricultural crops.
Culture is, first of all, a set of rules of a subjective nature that forms a certain community of people. This set includes such basic “chapters” as PROHIBITIONS, PRESCRIPTIONS, PERMISSIONS, VALUE JUDGMENTS, INTERPRETATION OF THE FACTS OF EXISTENCE, as well as
creating SYMBOLS and communication methods within a given group of people.
This code is initially formed in the form of ordinary law, but over time it is partially codified in the form of written laws. The proposed definition is valid for the humanitarian sphere (art, religion, social relations…) and is less applicable for the technological sphere, since technologies obey natural laws, and the aforementioned set of technologies controls and, if you like, slows them down.
You can put it even more succinctly: culture is any artificial system. Sic.
Culture is everything that is not nature. You can say that a cultured person at the table holds a fork in his left hand, and a knife in his right hand. Few people understand that there is a culture of creation and a culture of destruction.
I like the approach of clarifying the semantics of a word. Cult – veneration, worship. Ur – fire, light… It turns out the worship of Light, fire… It is the identification and honoring of the highest aspirations of the human Spirit. Does it sound too cheap? Yes. But on the other hand, it tends to the top, raises a person to perfection… Of course, there are other definitions. But this, in my opinion, is the most capacious…
One of the European artists (I don't remember who) expressed a wonderful idea. He said something like this: if you remove every single person from the planet Earth, then all that remains after them on Earth is culture.
Traditionally, the Latin word cultura is translated as ” cultivation”. Sometimes other meanings of this word are mentioned: “education”,” development”, “ennobling”,” reverence”, “care”,” decoration”, “refinement”,” nutrition”, “care”,” lifestyle”, etc. Such a wide field of meanings was obtained due to the ambiguity of the original concept – the verb colere (1st person singular-colo), which originally meant “to live”, “to dwell”, and only then – “to dress up”, “to decorate”, “to improve”, “to fulfill”, “to observe”, “to worship”, “to celebrate” and even “to please”. With such positive meanings, the word cultura was used by the ancient Romans. However, in Ancient Greece, the related word kolos was used in a completely different meaning – “crippled”,” crippled”.
Thus, the oldest meaning of the word cultura is a change, a remaking of the natural, the natural both for the better and for the worse. In this respect, the ancient world clearly distinguished the concepts of natura, as the sphere of the natural, the natural, untouched by man, and cultura, as the sphere of the application of human forces, the sphere of a changed nature. And today it is very important to understand that any change introduced by man into nature is both destruction and creation at the same time.
In this regard, I recall one of the Chinese myths. It is described in the fourth-century BC Taoist work Chuang Tzu. According to this myth, Hu, the Emperor of the North Sea, and Shu, the Emperor of the South Sea, often met in the Middle World of Wu Huntun, the Great Chaos. Seeing that he was imperfect and wanting to thank him, the emperors Hu and Shu decided to drill (according to other versions, punch) several absolutely necessary holes in the body of Huntun. With great care, they made openings for sight and breathing, hearing and feeding, speech, smell, reproduction, and excretion. Everything worked out well. But Huntun died. This is the story of one of the first attempts to cultivate the world.
Culture is a set of achievements of mankind in industrial, social and spiritual life, in accordance with which material, social and spiritual culture are distinguished.
Culture is a kind of sum of the activity of the human mind, which combines positive aspects and is the opposite of negative manifestations of human activity.
Culture has a cumulative character, it is built and modified throughout human history, summing up and enriching the accumulated experience.
Culture is a generalizing concept for the forms of human life created and created by us in the process of evolution. Culture is defined as moral, moral and material values, skills, knowledge, customs and traditions. Often the term “culture” is used to describe a certain historical epoch: “medieval culture”, “modern culture”, etc. Culture also describes peoples: the culture of the Goths, Slavic culture, etc. In addition, culture can also refer to the spheres of human activity: political culture, art culture.
The word “culture” comes from the Latin cultura — cultivation, upbringing, education, development, veneration. Culture is a historically defined level of human development. Culture is expressed in the forms of organization of people's lives and the spiritual and material values they create. It is the presence of culture that distinguishes humans from animals. The study of culture is carried out by the science of cultural studies.
Culture is the level of mental and moral development of an individual. Sometimes they say-a person of low culture, that is, a person with a low level of intelligence and / or bad manners.
Culture is the cultivation or cultivation of a plant under human supervision. For example, agricultural crops.
Culture is, first of all, a set of rules of a subjective nature that forms a certain community of people. This set includes such basic “chapters” as PROHIBITIONS, PRESCRIPTIONS, PERMISSIONS, VALUE JUDGMENTS, INTERPRETATION OF THE FACTS OF EXISTENCE, as well as
creating SYMBOLS and communication methods within a given group of people.
This code is initially formed in the form of ordinary law, but over time it is partially codified in the form of written laws. The proposed definition is valid for the humanitarian sphere (art, religion, social relations…) and is less applicable for the technological sphere, since technologies obey natural laws, and the aforementioned set of technologies controls and, if you like, slows them down.
You can put it even more succinctly: culture is any artificial system. Sic.
Culture is everything that is not nature. You can say that a cultured person at the table holds a fork in his left hand, and a knife in his right hand. Few people understand that there is a culture of creation and a culture of destruction.
I like the approach of clarifying the semantics of a word. Cult – veneration, worship. Ur – fire, light… It turns out the worship of Light, fire… It is the identification and honoring of the highest aspirations of the human Spirit. Does it sound too cheap? Yes. But on the other hand, it tends to the top, raises a person to perfection… Of course, there are other definitions. But this, in my opinion, is the most capacious…
One of the European artists (I don't remember who) expressed a wonderful idea. He said something like this: if you remove every single person from the planet Earth, then all that remains after them on Earth is culture.