Philosophical and Anthropological Views on Understanding the Formation of Digital Culture

Abstract

This article is dedicated to scholarly thinking in the digital culture. The main aim is to study different approaches for the investigation of a modern culture and its significance for peo[1]ple. We have prioritized the following tasks: to take a look at a philosophical and a biology[1]anthropological direction oriented at the new ways to explain the importance of culture at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries; to analyze several approaches with the underpinning of digital culture. On the one hand, we gave ideas of the neo-Kantians who considered that you can understand the nature and spheres of human life only through values, which can build an evidence base for the significance of culture through the study of ethics and values to identify the absence of a natural component in them. On the other hand, we investigated anthropo[1]logical biology views of culture by K. Lorenz, E. Wilson, and A. Fet. Russian scientist Abram Fet, based on Lorenz and Wilson`s experience, arrived at some ideas that “‘culture’ cannot be characterized by an individual but only by a certain community and means the special community lifestyle with the skills and mode of behaviors in it, definitions and standards of thought, inheritable from generation to generation. … man is an animal with two systems of heredity — genetic and cultural” (Instinct and social behavior). So, based on the two scien[1]tific approaches presented above, it is possible to better understand the ways to study digital culture and analyze the transformation problems of the socio-cultural life of modern society. We are at the very beginning of a transition stage in the formation of new cultural relations. It is quite evident that the digital world is complex and contradictory. It requires us to make a highly developed spiritual culture for our continued existence.

Keywords:

digital culture, neo-Kantian, digital society, anthropological biology