Yuliia Butko

Hermeneutical Aspects of Eastern and Western Philosophy Yuliia Butko

Modern civilization radically transforms the conditions of human existence, forcing one to think about a shift in the fate of human existence, since the scale of individual human practices has acquired a truly universal, all-human character. When the error and arbitrariness of an individual can cost thousands of lives, the criteria for assessing worldview guidelines and value motivations acquire paramount importance. Development of such criteria, criticism of the axiology of a certain worldview, identification of the semantics and structure of individual worldview systems are the key tasks of philosophical hermeneutics. In the general element of the philosophical-hermeneutic process, historical-philosophical science performs the function of identifying the philosophical form of thought as philosophical, i.e. critical. The historiography of past thinking is the source of logical forms, in comparison with which it is necessary to criticize the worldview imbalances of modern thought. One of such distortions is the technicalization of culture and worldview, leading to the devaluation of the absolute existentials of human existence as values.