Globalization and the responsibility of the intellectual

The article analyses the relation between globalization and the responsibility of the intellectual. In the context of globalization the question of the responsibility of the intellectual is problematic. That is why we have to ponder on intellectual modesty and human measure of Socrates trying to analyse the phenomenon of globalization. The author discusses the dualism of the act and potency by Aristotle, that of mind and body by Descartes, the concept of the thing-in-itself by Kant and the radical principle by Hegel, and the utopias of Marxism and Capitalism at the end. The discussion is focused on the following question: does the logic of globalization has metaphysical roots, or it is just untenable claim to reduce all the cultures to the worldwide one without the possibility of the responsibility of the intellectual?.