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Culture is a concept derived from nature, rooted in farming and cultivation.
The word 'culture' is a cognate of 'coulter', a plough blade.
The concept of culture has evolved from a material process to a metaphorical one, encompassing human activities.
Culture has historically shifted, moving from rural to urban settings and encompassing activities from tilling the soil to splitting atoms.
A paradox exists: urban dwellers are considered 'cultivated', while those who work the land are not, emphasizing that agriculture can detract from self-cultivation.

Culture is an epistemologically realist notion, meaning it's deeply tied to raw material from nature, but it's also a constructivist concept as raw materials are shaped by humans.
Culture and nature are inextricably linked and not mutually exclusive; nature produces a type of culture which, in turn, changes nature.
If nature is fundamentally cultural, then cities and rural areas are equally natural.

Culture is a multifaceted concept and shapes political systems; it also shapes a political state.
Some see it as a necessary precursor for a flourishing state in civil society.
The state, in turn, may act to shape culture, both to smooth conflicts within civil society and provide a unifying ideology.
The state seeks to create shared cultural values, which in turn shapes the citizens' moral and spiritual dispositions.
Culture can also be seen as a kind of pre-emptive utopia, solving conflicts at an imagined level rather than a political one.

The Enlightenment, a period of intellectual and philosophical revolution, had a view on Art linked to science and beauty.
Art was meant to accurately reflect life in a scientifically correct way or inspire beauty.

Postmodernism contrasts with classical ideas of culture; pluralism is valued over purity.
The idea of "culture" has been broadened in postmodern discourse to include different social and economic groups.
The idea of high culture in opposition to low culture has been eroded by art forms such as film.

Culture has also become associated with the idea of colonialism, especially concerning the idea and control of other cultures.
Herder argued that culture should not be universal, but a diversity of specific experiences; he opposed the Eurocentric view of culture as superior.

Culture is highly complex and encompasses various contexts.
Culture has different meanings, some are related to the arts, others to the whole way of life in a society.
The notion that humans are not mere products of their surroundings but can shape themselves contrasts with a quasi-determinist view of culture.
The anthropologist Tylor describes culture as the complex whole of values, customs, beliefs, and practices constituting a specific life.

Civilization has a ring of agency that is associated with conscious, intellectual action and rational planning, in contrast with culture.
There are different meanings of the term culture.