Образ человека будущего, Том 7
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The objective of the study - to represent the role and significance of culture and arts for educational process where they are considered as a fundamental basis of youth"s upbringing in the context of universal and national human values.
The content of the study
Nowadays education in Ukraine is looking for innovative ways of further development, particularly, in the context of European education. We strongly believe that it can lead to success only if we follow the words of wisdom said by well-known educators as for the im-portance of upbringing, culture and arts. We should remember that improvement, purification, culturalization and enlightenment of "human material" should be carried out through culture and arts. It gives a person an opportunity to glitter by the brilliancy of the unique individual talent, which everyone gets from the Almighty. John Amos Comenius, a founder of a peda-gogical science, was right when he encouraged all nations of the world to build a rapport and support as well as to form a universal human brotherhood and to encourage peaceful labor. He highly appreciated human life that, as he believed, should reflect a humanistic idea. In his view every person is the most beautiful and perfect creature of nature. Only through education and upbringing, it is possible to realize the full human potential and not to become "wild animals, still logs" [Komensk'y, 1982: 80]. That is why he called school as a "humanity studio." He rec-ommended studying at Academies only for "the finest human individuals." In his mind, only the most talented young people should get education.
Every historical stage according to the prevalent culture, arts and ideals used to build a particular model of a cultural and aesthetic human image. In Antiquity, an ideal of a man who had a beautiful body and soul was glorified. In Middle Ages, an image of a noble knight who served as an example of honor, modesty and courage was celebrated. In the mentioned above context Renaissance is of a particular interest for us. That time the focus was on humanistic ideas, universal knowledge, personal harmonious development as well as educational, cogni-tive and hedonistic values of arts. An ideal human image of those times has been imprinted forever in masterpieces of art, sculptures, literature and music. Eternal images of a true Man are still recognized as hard-working, creative and honest people who have high moral qualities and are able to create a better life. Moreover, that life is associated with the ideals of Wisdom,
Beauty and Goodness. Only true patriotism, spirituality and fortitude can inspire arising of the best ideas and sincere feelings. We speak about a strong desire to harmonize the surrounding reality, to create with a great excitement for the benefit of the whole humankind.
It is important to understand that there is not only a generally accepted image of human
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excellence but it also exists a personal understanding of an ideal in the context of "ecology of personality." That is the reason of differences existence. The process of the ideal creation is connected with identification and development of the personal originality. That necessitates constant inner world development of as well as an ability to find the whole world beauty and of every particular person as a part of it. We should remember about goodness and generosity of a human soul, people"s intentions to get the highest aspirations, come close to wisdom, warmth, behavior culture and high ground acts. "Cain" and "Abel" sculptured likenesses by Giovanni Dupre vividly illustrate the mentioned above ideas. The main point is that every man can act as Abel or Cain did. Moreover, it is important not to make a mistake in the context of his life choice. As it was mentioned by Mikhail Bakhtin "every image needs much time to be assessed and understood."
An urgent need to educate a spiritual, cultural, moral and aesthetic personality is a chal-lenge in the context of our time. We speak about a man who should be ready for social, eco-nomic and cultural changes as well as for revolutionary and reform challenges in all spheres of the modern social life. As it has been mentioned by culturologists, "in case of necessity a person can merge his individuality into culture which is considered as a memory of the whole mankind. It reflects human spirituality development, which is a consequence of the particular cultural events in the past. A man addresses that culture as "a talking mirror" and creates his personal image." [Kruglikov, 1987: 181] The problem of educating a well-cultured person is extremely challenging. A number of factors, which inhibit the process, affects it. The following ones could be identifies as the most influential: lack of interest in the inner world exploring and improving, focus on personal everyday troubles, mass media hypnotic influence on conscious-ness and feelings of youth, current trends to commercialize, pragmatism and deprive society of spirituality.
Television is the most powerful tool for the mass influence. As Dario Salas Sommer men-tioned "it is the strongest and the most excellent hypnotist." That is why to distract the viewers from the thoughtful life reflection and to change positive worldview they substitute true cul-ture and high art on the cult of entertainments and cruelty, depreciation of high morals and no-ble deeds as well as second-rate stories and characters. The "hypnotist"s" target is to "weaken" people"s pure intentions and high aspirations. The focus is on dealing with the everyday issues.
Personal culture is formed in the context of cultural diversity. It includes friendly envi-ronment, well-cultured people, self-education and considering culture phenomenon as a great value. These points show the way how to create an ideal personality. Level of an individual culture must correspond with the national scale and the culture level accepted in the whole world. An image of a Man of Culture reflects harmonized aspects of both external and internal worlds. Neither perfect, aesthetic appearance nor good communication skills and an ability to give a professional assessment to the works of art can be considered apart as a complete image of a cultured person. It is too little. It is also necessary to remember about human inner world, sincerity, integrity, honesty, justice and behavioral culture, attitude to the world and other peo-ple. At each historical stage there was presented a particular model of a well-cultured person. Immanuel Kant described a Man of Culture as a mystery, "an unknown object in itself." As it is mentioned by Sommer we can describe a well-cultured person as a man who "believes that his inner spiritual world is the main value. Moreover, that evolution of his consciousness helps to fill his every wish, deed or though with goodness. It will allow people to come closer to the main purpose of human existence - self-improvement. That is only thing that can help us to change the world where we live for better" [Sommer, 2014].
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Today"s reality shows that instead of helping people to get noosphere and, particularly, a cos-moplanet level of consciousness when everybody lives in harmony with nature, the Universe and his own soul, when people are able to transfer higher cosmic spiritual energies into the human world which is aimed at forming the noosphere civilization, technosphere rules the real world. It maims human hearts and souls, inhibits emotions and feelings. That leads to increasing the distance from the true human culture as in general sense so in national aspects. Development of
Pedagogy of Noosphere is a current trend. This science has an important spiritual mission - to lay theoretical and methodical foundation for harmonization of human life and the Universe [Fu-ture Human Image, 2011; Future Human Image, 2012; Future Human Image, 2013]. Also, it en-courages next generations to realize the main purpose of the mankind existence on Earth planet. A cosmoplanet human has a highly developed spirituality which can be found through showing care about the surrounding, creating Goodness and Beauty, a strong desire to improve personal inner world. Vladimir Vernadskyi underlined that an individual existence full of positive energy would encourage human transferring from the biosphere stage to the noosphere one. Modern scientists pay much attention to the noosphere education problem. They stress the necessity to harmonize a Man and the Universe relations on the basis of culture centricity, aethetization, artistry, spiritual and value aspects of the content and methods of education. It conditions the ne-cessity to "pass through the filter of a bracing higher consciousness," which will allow people to follow the Universe morals. As Dario Sommer states, "Everyone is connected with the Universe through invisible fibers and once been sending those vibrations will get back much intensified. Nature forgives nothing. The way you treat others is the way you will be treated. Therefore, if you want a better life you should sow the best seeds... As much you are ready to give so will get." [Sommer, 2014: 236] In addition, it is worth revising the following moral Rules, which are the basis for the Universe and Man further harmonization. The author states: "Do not claim on what you doesn"t deserve. Do not feel hate as it will get back hundred times intensified. Do not commit perjury and contempt. Show respect to older people and support them. Always defense truth and justice. Do not do to others what you would not have done to you. Be free from negative emotions and thoughts. Follow the Universe rules and you will be rewarded. Live in harmony with Nature and you will get the highest goodness." [Sommer, 2014: 236] If people follow the mentioned, above recommendations it will be possible to get higher spiritual level and morals as well as better situation in the context of interaction culture between individuals and nations. It will give an opportunity to create an ideal image of humanity in people"s souls. In addition, the author identifies morality as "a cause-and-effect, vibrating and energetic connection between a Man and Space where the following rule works - everyone pays for what he does." [Sommer, 2014: 235] If a person is considered as a Man of High Spirituality, it is obvious that he should have high morals and culture. He should live in accordance with his spiritual values. It is worth noticing that Sommer has introduced the "morals physics" term, which considers such aspects as consciousness and voluntary interaction with nature all around the Universe aimed at getting the highest sake. It supposes general human perfection and, particularly, aesthetic aspect. [Sommer,
2014: 6]
What system of values does our society believe in and suggest follow? The information space is weakly controlled. It affects a personal value system, an ability for critical thinking as well as spiritual, moral and aesthetic ideals. The TV guide"s analysis makes us to ask the following question: What has happened to those television programmes which consist of spir-itual, cultural and art contents? We mean high quality arts: cinema, theater, painting, music, literature. Also, it is important to become familiar with museums around the world, meet out-