DESCRIPTION: Michael Bowler (born 1969) is a researcher at Michigan Technological University. His research interests include 19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy, ancient Greek philosophy, and research ethics. The combination of philosophy and computer science allows him to explore, among other things, ethical issues related to the development of technology and artificial intelligence. He is the author of Heidegger and Aristotle: Philosophy as Praxis (2008). The article in question presents an existential concept of culture, using as an analogy the existential concept of science formulated by M. Heidegger. Like the existential concept of science, the existential concept of culture corresponds to the mode of existence of Dasein. This distinguishes the existential concept of culture from other common concepts of culture, which view culture as something accessible or ready to use. However, culture is not simply a way of being of Dasein. More specifically, in culture, Dasein reveals its existence through its concrete realization. Furthermore, it is argued that the task of culture is to exist in such a way as to realize values in an unusual way. "Modeled on Heidegger’s existential conception of science, the existential conception of culture provides us with a fundamentally new way of understanding culture and cultural phenomenon. It allows us to understand the integral and important role that culture plays in our existence. More precisely, it implies that culture lies at the core of human existence" (p. 23).
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