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Zelenograd g, Moskva, Rossiya, Moscow, Russian Federation
UDC 316.42
The author has carried out the analysis of ideas about civilization and progress as desirable results of modernization of social existence. Not only the signs of a civilized society are outlined, in which modernization is a transition to more developed forms of social existence, but also a number of trends indicating the proximity of Western European society to the final, dying out stage of culture. The factors of manifestation of this transformation in the nature of technological innovation, as well as in the transformed understanding of personality and personal freedom, are considered. It is argued that the worldview split of modern society and the resulting contradictions in the socio-political practice of Western European states are largely related to this.
modernity, civilization, culture, technological progress, social progress, moral progress, personality, freedom, contradictions, modernization, social existence, Western European society, socio-political practice
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