The 18th and 19th-century french thinkers on civilization: a brief overview

Authors

  • T. V. Kychkyruk National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine
  • H. V. Salata Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31548/hspedagog2020.04.110

Abstract

The future development of both global and local civilizations is based on our knowledge of the past and our involvement in the present. It largely depends on rethinking the ideas of the past and reintegrating their productive elements into our worldview. The ideas of Turgot, Condorcet, Comte, Durkheim interpreted from the standpoint of today can become the missing pieces of the puzzle, the name of which is the civilization paradigm. The paper aims to explore the ideas of the famous 18th – 19th century French thinkers on civilization. The authors used cultural-historical and integrative approaches.

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2020-12-16

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Vol. 11 No. 4 (2020)

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