The Philosophical Legacy of Akzhan Al-Mashani in the Context of the Digital Worldview

Abstract

In the context of the digitalization of the society, the ways of knowledgeproduction, dissemination, and interpretation, as well as the criteria for its evaluation and cultural importance, are undergoing significant changes. Despite the extensive spectrum of researches devoted to the digital worldview, contemporary philosophical literature remains insufficiently developed on the issue of the normative basis for evaluating information, primarily on the criteria for its semantic significance, contextuality, and responsibility in the digital environment. In this regard, the philosophical legacy of Akzhan Al-Mashani is of particular interest, where the problem of knowledge is initially considered in a normative and culturalvaluable dimension. However, in existing studies, his work is practically not analyzed as an independent methodological resource for understanding the digital worldview, the philosophy of information, and digital ethics. As a rule, Al-Mashani’s ideas are interpreted fragmentarily or in a historical-descriptive context, without systematic reconstruction of their normative content and without correlation with the problem of assessing the quality of information in the digital environment. In connection with this, the aim of this study is to reconstruct philosophically the key concepts of Akzhan Al-Mashani’s legacy and identify their methodological and ethical potential for analyzing the digital worldview. The article analyzes how the concepts of form (cube), harmony–symmetry, and semantic verification of knowledge can be interpreted in the context of a digital worldview and used to justify criteria for information quality and responsibility in the digital environment. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the fact that Al-Mashani’s philosophy is systematically examined for the first time not in a historical-descriptive manner, but in a normative-analytical manner — asa philosophical resource for understanding digital ethics, information quality criteria, and cultural memory issues in the context of digitalization.