LIFE INSIDE THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CULTURE

Abstract

The article poses the question of „boundaries“ of life. The term life refers to thatwhich is organic, and to culture (society) which has its own „life expectancy“ aswell. Discourseon life of the cultures is relevant to their own relation to life, and hence for the bioethical question.The author begins with thesis that every culture forms its own relation towards biologicallife and other cultures, setting therefore the different boundaries during the course of history.Boundaries refers to limitations of life conditions of the animal world, but also to limitationsof human’s life – freedom inside the culture and freedom of autonomic progress of the cultures(societies). Limitations of life are not lessening within democratic society. In that context, threetheses are being explored: (1) Thanks to the science and technique, boundary of life becomesmovable, so that man lives longer. At the same time, cultural imperialism shortens or jeopardizeslife of many cultures (societies); (2) The degree of the control over life (by ecological conditions and social conditions) is being increased. The most powerful are those techniques and largeinternational systems which prescribe regimes of life as limitations of life. (3) Global ecosystemis maintained thanks to the numerous ecosystems being intertwined. It tends to preserve itsstructure and stability (laws of ecodynamics opposite to law of thermodynamics – entropy). Theconsequences of boundaries are (1) man’s physical and mental accommodation to systems of lifecontrol in everydays life, in function of accepting the prescribed limits; (2) minimizing of thecultural diversity and global social imbalance; (3) inquiring and critique of the state of the society(system), instead of questioning the society (system) as such.