„‘COSMOS’, THE ‘ORDER OF THE UNIVERSE’, AND THE ‘SPHERES OF THE WORLD’: THE TRADITION OF THE CONCEPTUALIZATION OF ‘GLOBALIZATION’ IN THE DISCOURSE OF PHILOSOPHY”

Philosophy has until present time a stable usage of the term and concept of the ‘sphere’ as a part of the representation of the world around us. We trace this pat h of the ‘sphere’ in the Western philosophy and the status the concepts of ‘world’, ‘universe’, and ‘sphere’ had for the worldview of philosophers in the history of the Western culture. We will show that recently European philosophers have joint this conce pt of the ‘sphere’ with the idea of ‘globalization’. But before the emergence of ‘globalization’ the previous conceptualizations of the ‘world’ in philosophy have had a different function than in contemporary political and economic thinking of the discours e of ‘globalization’. For the philosopher it established the reality, which surrounds the human, while the economic and political proponents of ‘globalization’ describe and use ‘globalization’ as a process they are performing. Even the contemporary philoso phers using ‘globalization’ refer to this complex discours