Mozgova T. Axiological dimension of human existence in the Japanese cultural tradition: social and philosophical analysis

This thesis is devoted to the analysis of axiological dimension of human existence in the Japanese cultural tradition within social and philosophical discourse. It was found that "axiological opinion" in the Eastern paradigm of culture is not an axiology in modern European meaning of this word: Japanese spiritual and cultural tradition does not generally use the term "value", (means) value as it is. Does not reflect the status of value and possibilities of its justification, methods of its cognition; does not create a typology or classification of values. It was proved that phenomenon of values in the Japanese spiritual and cultural traditions implicitly woven into religious, ethical, artistic and aesthetic interpretation of the meaning of human existence. The novelty of the study is that two diametrically-opposite models of the world were introduced and compared. They based on antinomical systems of thinking: formal-logical and intuitive-imaginative, which does not conflict or exclude each other, but completing and enrich each other.