Abstract:

The article discusses the origins and development of the capitalist culture dating back to Western Europe and Modern Period. This phenomenon is far from being only of an economic, technical nature, but is primarily explained in socio-political, psychological and philosophical discourse. It is debatable whether the capitalist spirit is inherent in a particular culture, which determines its socio-economic development, or whether everything depends on specific historical, political, geographical conditions. The value of modernization is debatable too: did capitalism determine the cultural and spiritual growth of mankind or did globalization, as a consequence of modernization, lead to cultural anomie? The result of the work is a statement: modernization, capitalism did not affect the essence of man, but only gave him tools, changed the construction of reality and also raised the question of the disappearance of the man’s spiritual existence as an important aspect of being.