Some of the Lines of the Development of Culture and Accepted Values and the Prognosis of Physical Culture

Abstract

A forecast of the social future, reconnaisance regarding its probable shape — is a postulate of a theoretical as well as practical nature. It can be ascribed to various spheres of social life, also to physical culture.

Though there exist doubts as to the purposefulness of research on the future, there nevertheless are sufficiently well justified arguments, testifying not only to the possiblility but the necessity to take this type of research into account in science. After all, they establish a new additional way of looking at reality as a variable reality, which is dynamic due to which we are enabled to look at existing reality in a more comprehensive manner, make it the subject of reflections that enrich our cognitive abilities. This is important in all spheres of knowledge and social life, but is above all important in these and such activities which we define as cultural activity. This was very correctly defined by Bohdan Suchodolski, who stated that the future is not what people expect but it is the outcome of their activity, their achievements and neglect. Here one could add that it also stems from their attitude to the cultural heritage, the ability to make certain choices. And it is in this field of research on the choice of values that forecasting in research should not be omitted.

Formulating these needs the author concentrates in his work on the choice of values and developmental possibilities within the framework of forecasting in the field of physical culture.