Philosophy and Culture : The Role of Religion?

Abstract

This paper examines the relationship between philosophy and culture. It contends that contrary to common understanding, it is philosophy which determines the unity of a culture. Yet this is an active and ongoing process. In our unifying and very diverse world, it is philosophy which has the task of providing a new humanism, by identifying those common values and ideas that ground individual cultures and that complement, in their diversity, the one culture of humanity.