Individuals in the network society. The cross cultural dialogue of the past and the present

An individual in the network society is linked to ever-changing space of information flows and is subject to respective transformations. However, in defiance of postnonclassical relativism there exist underlying knowledge structures that give individuals potential support. The structures in question took shape in the Axial Age (VIII-II centuries BC, a term coined by Karl Jaspers). They include ontology-seeking reason; novelty and knowledge viewed at as values; an individual viewed at as an indefinite unstructured potence and as the «potential» being of a particular individual. The dialogue of such a deep-lying human structure and everyday network thought leads to disclosing two new parameters of the contemporary society arrangement, i.e. the commitment of the collective reason to finding the truth and, in particular, to finding the truth in the framework of a national culture