Abstract

The pilrpose of this article is to discuss some of the relevant qilestions of interrelation between phi- losophy, Iicr~neneutic and cultural anthropology. By inquiring into plicnomenn of relation with the OTHER we must pay attention to historical contcxt. The present homogenization and Europeizat~on of the world when radical otherness is impossible de- pends on circumstance that there exist at least two stages of human history. First there goes the epoquc of closed "non-historical" culti~res and them comes the time of homogenous, although not without cul- tural dit'i'erences, universal c o m n i ~ ~ n i t y of world where European science. technology, law, econom- ics and politics are predominant. 'The relativistic approach is as much useful as it helps us to overcome our ethnocentricity, brings broader context to our experience, mores, and tradi- tions and allows 11s to think in tenns of other cultures. l'hough cultural relativism ofthis kind is possible only as a first step. Philosophy isn't si~iiple mapping offacts. It's a research of possibility of facts, legitimate of main horizon and ralioni~lity of research subject itself', By g o ~ n g from experience of difference to rethinking that the conditions of such experience one should neces- sary shift I i o ~ n henneneutic experience ofthe OTI-IER from the standpoint of cultural anthropology to autoreflection of transcendental phenomenology