Worldview orientations of the modern society: a view from Georgia

Abstract

The urgency of the research is stipulated by the scientific discussion that arose around the notion of worldview orientations of the present time. The theorists of various scientific fields offer interpretation of this concept, mechanisms of its formation and criteria for determination.
As to the modern society’s worldview orientations the author of the study relies primarily in her arguments on the works of the modern Norwegian philosopher E. Gamlund, who focuses on the west philosophical tendencies and suggests not using the notion “worldview” in the context of social consciousness, since this term is little used in contemporary American and English philosophy, and if it is applied then it is used as “a holistic approach to existence: a place of a man in the cosmos, a man’s attitude to other beings, to the God, to the world in general”. In contrast to this interpretation, the author gives a definition that was suggested once in the Soviet science: “a worldview is a system of views on the world (nature, society, way of thinking), that affect the value orientation of a human and his/her activities”. In the article the author analyzes the place of human’s worldview in the modern society and in journalism. In particular, she considers the reasons of hopeless sociopoliticalsituations. In the context of considerations, the researcher refers to the experience of the Georgian society. It is the author’s opinion that the reason of most hopeless socio-political situations in the world is poor communication skills of an individual, as well as carelessness of politicians and irresponsibility of journalistic interpretations of the current and past problems of the world community. The author considers that conducting the dialogues is solution of these problems that is in formation of the logical sequence of “expressed-heard-actions-consensus”. This position of the author is reinforced by the examples from the worldview, worldview orientations, world perception, dialogue, consensus.