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The article continues the series of publications about the universum evolution of the Ancient Greek subcivilization of the Antique civilization and is devoted to the characteristics of its spirituality and culture in the context of complex processes of appropriation of essential human powers. It is shown that in the early period in Ancient Greece, as in the East, fetishism, totemism, animism, polydemonism developed in parallel and succession, but, unlike the East, ancient Greek Olympic polytheism is characterized by a pronounced anthropomorphism, and the priesthood never turned into a closed privileged caste due to the absence of a single state. Later, the strengthening of religion was facilitated by the formation of a mixed public-individual appropriation by the people's assembly and the ruling group of the majority of city-wide objects, including the proto-institutions and proper institutions of religion. It has been proven that the objective dialectic of the general civilizational and special ancient Greek, concrete historical principles of appropriation gives birth to philosophy and science in their classical understanding in the background of the democratization of the policies, the Great Colonization and the limited centripetal possibilities of mythology and religion. The middle position of philosophy between religion and science is emphasized. The assumption is formulated that the cosmogonic constructions of the first philosophers and scientists were inspired mainly by the mechanistic perception of the polis and the not fully conscious desire to improve its organization. More complex, median-synthetic forms of philosophical discourse, the interaction of science and religion matured later, in the dialectical teachings of Plato and Aristotle, which corresponded to the increasing complexity of the structure of the polis and the system of appropriation of its objects. According to Plato, a polis is impossible without free citizens, and their majority cannot be interested in its demise, the loss of independence, because together with it the mixed social and individual appropriation of their civil status will sink into oblivion. This demise may become inevitable if the private interests of many prevail over the interests of the city as a whole. Therefore, an ideal state headed by philosophers, in which interests are harmonized and optimized, is imperative. Aristotle's commitment to the methodology of the middle, which in his teaching appears multifaceted, universal, essential, and relative, is characterized. This allowed him to present the polis as a special economic system in which household and state economy, economy and chrematistics, commodity exchange, commodity-money circulation and the movement of money as capital interact. Aristotle was the first to outline the subject space of economic science with the problem of wealth in its two forms – genuine natural and imaginary monetary. From the standpoint of the historical synthesis of universality and medianity, socialization and individualization in the system of appropriation of the ancient Greek polis, the main achievements in the field of ancient literature, theater, architecture and sculpture, and applied art are examined. It is concluded that ancient spirituality and culture are characterized by a complex trialectic of the middle, the east and the west with the dominance of the middle, which provided the universum foundations, on the one hand, for its expansion, the birth and development of Hellenism, and on the other, for its world-historical significance, which cannot be denied, even with a solid baggage of modern knowledge about the richest treasures of human civilization.