Ontologia kulturowa: zarys konstrukcji
Cultural ontology: an outline of its construction

Summary/Abstract: My project of cultural ontology aims at a specific modification of Heidegger’s ontology of being, which makes possible the analysis of historical communal being and the cultural nature of all ways of being. In this first part I shall consider: the motives for using an expression ’cultural ontology,’ arguments for the necessity of overcoming phenomenological analysis toward ontological philosophizing, and reasons for going beyond analytic of Dasein toward ontological analysis of communities and human history. A sociohistorical ontology must be, finally, transformed into a cultural ontology because all ways of being, human and non-human alike, are cultural in their constitution. As a starting point for the ontological exposition of culture I also discuss pre-ontological, e.g., scientific, views of culture and take up the question, whether a cultural ontology can be useful for them.

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