Culture and World Vision: The Cognitive Mythical Mode

J. Nescolarde-Selva^1, and J.L. Usó-Doménech¹

¹Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain

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J. Nescolarde-Selva and J.L. Usó-Doménech. Culture and World Vision: The Cognitive Mythical Mode. American Journal of Systems and Software. 2015; 3(3):55-63. doi: 10.12691/ajss-3-3-1

Abstract

Culture is the system of knowledge, from whose meanings the human being screened and selected their understanding of Reality in the broad sense, and interprets and regulates the facts and data of social behavior. In this sense, culture is a program for social action and acting in humans during the process of socialization and social interaction. The meanings of each culture are the cumulative product of collective and individual thinking, in ecological economic, social and political specific situations, so are the expression of each particular cultural historical conjuncture. Moreover, the universal cognitive structure for the apprehension of cultural reality is the World Vision (WV). Due to its importance and significance as substratum of religious and political belief systems, we will gird our study to mythical cognitive mode or mythical WV.

Keywords:
beliefs culture modal logic myth mythical dimension mythopoiesis world vision

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