Popovych M. Human dimension of culture: social-philosophical conceptualization

Culture always has a human dimension as a determinant to its other dimensions, including institutional, technological, and so symbolic. Human dimension of culture defines its creativity, which generates all possible shaping of culture - particularly the social institutions of culture, social technologies, symbolic systems (from art and religion to ideology and science). As the main characteristics of culture from the perspective of human dimension there are defined values, structural-functional and symbolic aspects of a culture system, the interdependence of which is discovered in its dynamics as the creation and transformation of human culture. An adequate analysis of the social bases of the human dimension of culture is possible from the theoretical standpoint of communicative philosophy, which is revealing the social nature of human beings as a communicative, improves itself, as well as their social and natural environment by overcoming the repressive instrumental rationality and approval rationality of critical thinking and rational discourse focused on scientific consensus as a guarantee of mutual and mutual support in the joint development. Such understanding of the communicative philosophy requires a rethinking of culture as its core has a culture of communication - from interpersonal communication to the communication between man and nature. It was identified the potential philosophical rethinking of anthropocentrism as the classical paradigm of such social-philosophical theory of culture, which requires its new conceptualization is based on communicative social theory. The culture cannot be regarded otherwise than as a work of human being and fundamental way of human socialization.