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The role of eastern philosophy in building immunity
against the attack of western popular culture
Abboshon KHAYRIDINOV
1
Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan
ARTICLE INFO
ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received June 2022
Received in revised form
25 June 2022
Accepted 25 July 2022
Available online
20 August 2022
In this study, the role of oriental education in increasing the
importance of traditional culture, the role of oriental education
in increasing the importance of traditional culture against pop
culture, which is now becoming a part of the culture of all
countries, the way of man and his life path in oriental philosophy,
and the path leading to perfection are discussed in this research.
views. It is about the role of establishing a view of Eastern
philosophy as a part of the youth education system in forming a
stronger and more durable worldview than foreign ideas and
ideologies.
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2022 in Science LLC.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.47689/2181-1415-vol3-iss4-pp29-34
This is an open access article under the Attribution 4.0 International
(CC BY 4.0) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.ru)
Keywords:
Eastern philosophy,
Western philosophy,
mass culture,
information flow,
social networks,
virtual life,
Eastern education,
Eastern lifestyle,
European civilization.
G'arb madaniyati xujumga qarshi immuni shakllantirishda
sarq falsafasining o'rni
ANNOTATSIYA
Kalit so‘zlar
:
Sharq falsafasi,
G‘arb falsafasi,
ommaviy madaniyat,
axborot oqimi,
ijtimoiy tarmoqlar,
virtual hayot,
Sharq ta’limi,
Sharq turmush tarzi,
Yevropa sivilizatsiyasi
Maqolada an’anaviy madaniyatning ahamiyatini oshirishda
Sharq ta’limining o‘rni, hozirda barcha mamlakatlar
madaniyatining bir qismiga aylanib borayotgan pop madaniyati
fonida an’anaviy
madaniyatning ahamiyatini oshirishda Sharq
ta’limining o‘rni ko‘rib chiqiladi. Bu tadqiqotda inson va uning
Sharq falsafasidagi hayot yo‘li hamda komillikka etaklovchi yo‘l
tadqiq qilinadi. Gap yoshlar ta’lim tizimining bir qismi sifatida
Sharq falsafasiga
oid qarashlarni tasdiqlashning yot g‘oya va
mafkuralarga qaraganda kuchli va barqaror dunyoqarashni
shakllantirishdagi o‘rni haqida bormoqda.
1
Teacher of special subjects of Tashkent academic lyceum No. 2, Lieutenant Colonel, Ministry of Internal Affairs of the
Republic of Uzbekistan. E-mail: academicaget6767@gmail.com.
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Роль
восточной
философии
в
формировании
иммунитета против атаки западной популярной
культуры
АННОТАЦИЯ
Ключевые слова:
восточная философия,
западная философия,
массовая культура,
информационный поток,
социальные сети,
виртуальная жизнь,
восточное образование,
восточный образ жизни,
европейская цивилизация.
В статье рассмотрена роль восточного образования в
повышении значимости традиционной культуры, роль
восточного образования в повышении значимости
традиционной культуры на фоне поп
-
культуры, которая в
настоящее время становится частью культуры всех стран. В
данном исследовании рассматривается человек и его
жизненный путь в восточной философии, а также путь,
ведущий к совершенству. Речь идет о роли утверждения
взглядов на восточную философию как часть системы
образования молодежи в формировании более сильного и
устойчивого мировоззрения, чем иностранные идеи и
идеологии.
INTRODUCTION
Topic relevance.
The increasing influence of popular culture on state and activities of
modern society determines the importance of studying the reasons for its future
development prospects and forming a strong immunity against it in the minds of young
people.
The cultural crisis at the base of European civilization is described in such categories
as mass culture, mass society, mass man, technologization of consciousness, entertainment
industry, and others. These phenomena are also reveraled in our country with their
peculiarities related to the general crisis of society. Popular culture demonstrates clearly
the irreversible process of destroying traditional worldview relations and forming new,
global changes taking place in the field of ethics. The problems that mass culture poses to
our society and individuals are considered based on the analysis of their relationship with
mass culture, which is characterized by a wide range of multifaceted aesthetic, moral,
psychological vectors, this inevitably causes countless sharp internal contradictions,
including moral conflicts, instability of behavior. The subject of modern mass culture exists
in unique moral dimension, in which the regulatory power of traditional moral norms and
ideas hardly penetrates. In his spiritual life, the role of unconscious, irrational becomes
active, and emotional side dominates logical and rational one.
Based on the relevance of the above topic, the main goals and objectives of the
research are in the fact that nowadays, traditional idea, which has become a part of the
culture of all countries and promotes unity for all, regardless of religious values of nation,
is losing the value of traditional idea.
LITERATURE ANALYSIS FROM TOPIC SURFACE
Popular culture attack and its impact
For a person living in the 21st century, the appeal of popular culture is compared to
“
unconscious demon
”
that arises from stressful situations in which a modern person finds
himself now and then escapes to outside world. Today, many scientists are concerned
about the intensity of influence of popular culture on formation of young generation, which
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makes radical changes in the process of getting acquainted with the values of this culture
and forms a light emotional perception of surrounding world. The most common pop
culture categories are: entertainment (such as movies, music, television, and video games),
sports, news (such as people/places in news), politics, fashion, technology, and slang.
Among them, the countries with the most influence on pop culture are the United
States, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Other countries such as South Korea, China, Italy
and France are also highly influential. Capitalist popular culture was not true culture of the
people, but a system of uniform and standardized artifacts produced by elite in service of
capitalist hegemony. Consumer demand for Hollywood movies, pop music, and
consumable books is fueled by the hegemony of corporate elites who control media and
corporations. It is the elite who modify the products according to their narrow ideological
values and norms, and the audience becomes accustomed to these normative conventions,
and this starts becoming intellectual.
A destructive idea of popular culture is that a person should live free of his will and
emotions, preferring freedom and kindness over innocence in life. Due to such views, as a
result of such lifestyle, drug addiction, sexual violence, crime, same-sex lifestyle, and exit
from sexual differences in society leads to fatal situations.
Sources of popular culture distribution include:
➢
Movies
➢
Television program
➢
Television advertising
➢
Animation
➢
Popular songs
➢
Corporation
➢
Fashion
➢
Books (some)
➢
Comics [ silent ]
➢
Radio
➢
Video game [PUBG, SDN]
➢
Internet resources
➢
Social networks
Currently, the largest source of these is social media (interactive computer-
mediated technologies that facilitate creation or sharing of forms of information and ideas
through virtual communities and networks). Social media platforms like Instagram,
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat are the most popular applications used
by the younger generation on a daily basis. Social media is used in people
’
s daily lives in
our current society. Social media is an important part of our culture as it continues to
influence on the forms of communication we use to connect with our communities, families
or groups of friends. All these are wounded from the western worldview and western
philosophy. During the 19th-19th centuries, the importance of Eastern philosophy
throughout the world has increased, and nowadays, due to the flow of mass culture, the
owners of such views and ideas are decreasing. What is the importance of Eastern
philosophy in the attack of mass culture? What are the advantages of ideas and views in
Eastern philosophy against the flow of pop culture?
We can say that Ancient Eastern philosophy is not only the oldest storehouse of
human wisdom, but also a unique source of the search for truth, a unique layer of human
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spiritual culture. Ancient Eastern philosophy confirms collectivism and opinion that the
benefits of society and state are higher than personal interests of a person. This philosophy
relies primarily on emotional knowledge, which brings it closer to mythology and religion.
From the time of its emergence, the philosophy of ancient Greece has been rational, mainly
based on the capabilities of human mind, taking into account the problems of the
individual, his uniqueness, freedom and responsibility. In Eastern philosophy, the whole
spiritual culture and philosophical thinking is focused on the existence of a person,
understanding and improvement of his identity, which is realized by leaving the material
world.
RESULT DISCUSSION
Aspirations, an idea in Eastern philosophy, and its anti-pop culture influence
If the European tradition is characterized by clear anthropocentrism, it is rooted in
Christianity and became energetic in new European philosophy, while in Eastern
philosophy it encourages to live only in accordance with one
’
s own spiritual and life
experience, without disturbing the surrounding world and harmony. According to Eastern
philosophy, people
’
s knowledge of the truth is not based on reason alone, It is based on a
holistic experience based on feelings, and they cannot be ignored. Truth is perceived not
only in the process of knowing, but also in the process of thinking. It is understood as the
uniqueness of self and non-self, in which the self is universal, individual, unchanging, and
the nomen is existing world that moves by itself. If the dual principle is traditional for
Western thinking
–
“
one person those who remain for themselves are another world
”
. The
principle of uncertainty for Eastern thought is
“
one in all and all in one
”
. Such a holistic
view of the world is the first and main sign of
“
enlightenment
”
.
The integrity of the Eastern way of thinking is largely related to specific features of
the language. The atomic nature of Western alphabet language is characterized by
analytical structure of the word, where its separate parts (root, suffix, prefix, etc.) carry an
independent semantic load, they give the whole grammatical meaning, and are assembled
mechanically. Behind the word
“
alphabet
”
is a concept that has been almost completely
stripped of its figurative meaning. Eastern culture is characterized by integrity of
hieroglyphic sign, which is given by very graphic structure of the hieroglyph. The concept
merges with its image in perception, is symbolically-graphically sealed and revealed
through the integral image of the sign. At the same time, in the Western culture, language
is viewed as a means of expressing, defining and translating meaning.
In fact, until recent centuries, the reason for the views of Eastern philosophy that
conquered the world was multifaceted nature, while in Classical European philosophy,
rationalism directed towards the search for objective universal truth prevailed. But in any case,
his knowledge implies “going” to the highest, intuitive
-mystical level: to unite with the absolute,
with the cosmic law, to experience and understand not only oneness with the world, but also
that there are different paths that lead to perfection and concluded that any of them can be
accepted according to the inner inclination of the individual.
Anthropological perfectionism, that is, the idea that ultimate goal of each person
should be self-improvement, because only through one
’
s own perfection it is possible to
raise the world to perfection, as well as to approach the Absolute. In order to understand
the place and importance of philosophy in people
’
s lives, philosophy was formed in India,
China, and Turkestan under such conditions.
Oriental teachings were created as moral, scientific or religious teachings. They
receive the status of philosophical teachings only from the point of view of European
consciousness. However, such consideration of these teachings is unjustified, since the
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main feature of philosophy is an attempt to answer questions related to the most
important aspects of human existence as a separate being.
In the East, there were two cultures where philosophy was born at the same time as
Ancient Greece: India and China. These cultures are extremely unique, so they are united
under the name of Eastern philosophy. In particular, some researchers believe that India
is the place where the tribes who moved to present European territory and were the
ancestors of the European peoples lived. In this respect, Indian culture is much closer to
European than to Chinese. At the very least, we are united by common background and
common language and cultural background that defines our worldview. In India and China,
independent philosophical schools were formed in the 6th century BC.
Eastern thinkers paid more attention to the questions:
“
What is the place of man in
the world?
”
,
“
What kind of life should he have?
”? “How to live in harmony with the
universe?” and gave practical instructions
. "The philosophy of ancient East defined such a
unity of worldview, showed the relationship and interdependence of nature and man. Man,
as one of equally large manifestations of the world, can feel his primordial participation in
nature, following the principles of taking it easy, taking it easy. Therefore, it is not for
nothing that religious-philosophical treatises show not only how moral norms are formed,
but also how this affects the well-being and fate of each person.
CONCLUSION
Contrary to popular culture ideas, which lead a person to emotional freedom, to
happiness, to freedom from life obligations, they do not seek to turn philosophical
knowledge into a scientific system and do not try to give it the character of
“
describing the
world
”
. Eastern philosophy moves away from material to the individual, to personality, to
his self-realization and self-improvement, and offers a well-thought-out spiritual path, by
entering which a person can achieve greater achievements. Brings awareness and
harmony to his life. Philosophical principles have a practical orientation and can be used
in various areas of human activity
Western thinkers strongly reject the knowledge gained through religious and
mystical experience as unprovable and strive for scientific methodology. In its desire to
build a transparent, clearly structured system of knowledge, Western philosophy
primarily relies on logical and scientific principles of knowledge, including the verification
and falsification of knowledge. The great openness of the West, its attraction to the search
for truth in various directions, including atheism, is also evident.
Contrary to pop culture, the ideas of eastern philosophy emphasize how a person
should live first of all, humanism, caring, compassion, calmness, learning every day,
learning to gain strength from difficulties, recognizing the consequences of life
’
s worries
and constant changes in life as a basis for reaching maturity. Today, only a nation that fully
realizes its identity with the strongest Fitrat can fully preserve its values from any external
influences. Therefore, in order to ensure the longevity of our nation antiquities, it is
necessary to increase the importance of Eastern ideas and teachings in education.
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