Debatable Questions of the Phenomenon of Modern Era in the Mirror of Modernity
The article analyzes the phenomenon of the Modern Era, its impact on the problems of the modern world and the search for ways to solve them. It considers its ideological, psychological and socio-political roots and shows the indirect influence of antiquity, a fundamentally new format of science-power and philosophy of an active rational subject, social and political processes between the state and society, heroism and the bourgeoisie, which led to formation of the bourgeois-capitalist era. Discourse around the phenomenon of Modern Era gives rise to the following antinomies: the presence/absence of the capitalist spirit, the value of rationalism, and the influence of globalization on culture. The analysis of the antinomies showed that the assertion of the presence of the capitalist spirit is speculative. Instead, it is necessary to take into account the socio-historical and political conditions that have formed certain behavioral responses. In conclusion, it is emphasized that the Modern Era has changed not the essence of man, but the means and conditions of human existence, the construction of reality, replaced the contemplative and established the consumerist attitude of man to the world, while raising the question of the future of culture and man in terms of the "second nature" created by them.