Abstract:
This paper examines the symbiosis of philosophy and culture. This is
because every culture emerges either as a reaction to or a justification of
peculiar circumstances. Thus, every seeming culture is an identity-
marker of ethnic consciousness and as such, this consciousness stands as
the cultivation of a people which is the flower for their existence. The
idea here portrays the possibility of fixing a controversial universal
culture as it seems pleasing and interesting and enticing yet transitorily
unnoticed. The metaphorism of culture to a flower quite likely concludes
the presence of innocence, love and growth which culture emits. The
question this paper posits would be: when a culture dies, whose culture
should form the basis of the new? Will a universal culture not also fade
away? In other to attempt answering the questions raised, this paper
makes use of the hermeneutics method for its analysis. Thus, we hold to
the fact that the asymmetry between questions and answers as to the idea
of a universal culture for sustainable development makes us wary and
warns us not to universalize one particular way of doing philosophy.
This paper concludes by rejecting an absolutist and exclusive view
instead gave credence to a minimal universality across culturally
sedimented differences
