El conflicto conceptual entre cultura, civilización y Estado

Kant, Nietzsche y Freud

Abstract

The conflict between the concepts of culture and civilization was a problem for Kant’s categorical morality, for Nietzsche, a matter of ethics than is desirable, and for Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents, that conflict never existed: culture and civilization are two terms that mean the same thing. But it was always this way? The terms themselves have distinct socio-linguistic origins. Not only that, the words belong to different cultures: the same were produced under historical and territorial circumstances mean seeking their own experiences and irreducible. What has that to do with the question of the state? For the authors review, culture and civilization always maintain a certain link with the practices of the state, may be a positive link, culturally speaking, or not.