The crisis of spiritual values and its social consequences

Abstract

The article outlines the problems of the contemporary crisis of spiritual values and its social consequences.  The main thesis is that the cause of the crisis, as diagnosed in the ongoing critical discourse, is the subject’s abandonment of the concept of multidimensional existence in favour of immersing oneself in one-dimensionality defined by the pragmatic, hedonistic and partially vitalistic perspective. The conclusion is that the previously described way of perceiving the crisis is merely one of ways available to the intellectual participants of the segmented post-modern culture. The culture of post-modernity as such generates an inherent axiological diversity which also creates the risk that the diagnosis of the crisis of values may be perceived by other subjects as exaggerated or unfair. It is therefore only viable as an intellectual warning against the lack of due prudence in taking advantage of the various advances made in our post-modern world.