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The article aims to analyze the anthropological content of metaphysical concepts of Sankhya and to answer the question what determines it. The analysis of the metaphysical Sankhya concept showed that when characterizing Purusa and Prakriti as the principle of subjective and objective reality the representatives of this philosophical school use the terms that alongside ontological meaning have also anthropological one. This specificity is manifested in the description of Prakriti evolution process since every stage...

This paper points out at the ability of music to capture and make sense of the existence of human, since music is, in its essence, the element of it. The artistic work of Roman Berger is an urgent message, the defence of values, and, the anxiety and concern for both the Truth and the state of the contemporary world. Personal experience, encounter with suffering and pain, and, attitude to eternity have all become a ubiquitous source for the feeling of life and the artistic inspiration for Roman Berger, an exception...

When a person meets another one, sometimes has the strange feeling of “deja vu”, thinking “I met this person before”. Psychology explains it as a path which is crossed between people. The same happens when people tries to predict the next friend they will meet. Which facts are most likely to lead to the connection? In the world of social networks, these are called nods. Each link shared among people is a line connecting them. In the computer world these graphs exist in an unlimited dimension, and artificia...

This paper examines such modern philosophical movements as transhumanism and posthumanism. The central issue of these concepts is “What is Posthuman?”. The twentieth century is marked by a contradictory understanding of the role and status of human. On the one hand, following the understanding of the onset of the new geological epoch of the Anthropocene, some rejection of the Anthropos figure comes. Such categories of agency as historicity, sociality, subjectivity are no longer so anthropocentric On the other ...

Modern theories of elites not always adequate and timely cover the diversity of elite groups practices with their scientific analysis, especially those who belong to the number of non-political elites – the elites of science, culture and religious societies. Each elite professional community needs its own separate set of criteria of elitism, reflecting the specificity of their occupation. The political elites cease to be the fashion to the elite breeders. Increasingly they are beginning to adopt the criteria of ...

Both novels are controversial and difficult to interpret due to their critique of the cultural, philosophical, and religious dimensions of the aestheticization of sexuality and gender from the perspective of human freedom and individuality. Our goal is to discover how both writers address this problem indirectly but openly, using irony, to show the insufficiency of the traditional, aesthetic fulfillment of the human being that we see, for example, in Don Juan. Moreover, it shows something that seems natural as som...

Ethics is an important ability in any profession but, considering the spectrum of responsibilities of the certified accountants, ethics should be even more important. The research concerning ethical issues related to accountantsВ’ profession has increased in the last years. Those studies highlight mostly the nature and extent of ethical problems. This study aims to validate the different importance given to ethical behavior in accountantsВ’ profession in Portugal, for men and women, and to understand how they also...

The development of modern society at the level of post-industrial relations requires not only the creation of the foundations of the digital economy and the introduction of advanced scientific achievements (hi-tech), but also a qualitative change in the system of training professional personnel. In this regard, the role of universities and, in particular, of faculty members, which are facing new challenges, is growing. It is not so much about changing educational programs, but about changing the very principles of...

The history of the last four centuries convincingly testifies to the increased role of the scientific elite in solving fundamental problems and in determining the development strategy of all mankind. It is already impossible for us to imagine the modern world without the achievements of science, with which all spheres of our public and private being are saturated. As a result, the role of the scientific elite, which is an advanced class of the elite professional community, increases, and the fate of the developmen...

The article substantiates the thesis about the central role of the phenomenon of ethical in the Kantian and Freudian reconstructions of the culture genesis. Comparative and hermeneutic methods of research are used. With necessity ethical conception of psychoanalysis founder presupposes a reference to Kant, but it contains a clear and hidden polemic with his ethical apriorism. In this connection, a comparative analysis of the two versions of the culture genesis is carried out, and similarity and difference of these...

Our study aim to identify the main sources of individualism, in Renaissance. We have established the conceptual relationships between greek Christian terms hypostas-enhypostas-parahypostas-polyhypostas and their metamorphosis under the influence of iudaic and gnostic philosophy. We are sketching the typology of the individual, reflected in symbolic portraiture of Adam. The individualism excludes any form of constraint and impose with necessity the idea of authenticity. We can observe the deconstruction of the esse...

Rudolf Carnap, one of the most accomplished representatives of logical empiricism, finds himself in discussion with Heidegger in the most radical phase of his work. His radical, critical approach is significant for the syntactic period of Carnap's thought development. Heidegger is, according to Carnap, a philosopher who speaks out against the rules of grammatical rules. Heidegger does not perceive Carnap as a philosopher worthy of a long answer. There are only two Heidegger's responses to Carnap. In his intellectu...

The research aim is to define and substantiate the methodological guidelines for the historical reconstruction of Ukrainian philosophical tradition of axiology of the nature. First of all, the research methodology as a synthesized self-reflection of historical humanities, in the search for new knowledge, should be based on human-centered approaches, principles and methods and it has to take into account evolutionary changes in the world society, the conceptual and historical-contextual influence on human conscious...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the life and work of Czech protestant theologian Jan Milic Lochman (1922-2004) and the influence of Tomas Garrique Masaryk on Loch-man’s concept of thinking. The author of this paper describes Lochman's works, espe-cially the Decalogue and the Credo, and emphasizes the truth and the struggle for truth. It also highlights the difficult situation between the World Wars in Europe, where ideo-logical struggle was present and the rise of Nazi Germany occured. Lochman and Masa-ryk a...

This article looks at connections and parallels between MachiavelliВ’s depiction of a state leader in his work The Prince and PratchettВ’s portrayal of a character ruling a city state in his fantasy novels. To accomplish this, we analyzed the character of Machiavelli and PratchettВ’s leaders and looked for similarities and differences in their statecraft. This paper will also look for intertextual connections as well as other Renaissance influence that can be traced in the British fantasy. One of Terry PratchettВ’...

Applied ethical frameworks in the field of social theory and practice face the limits of moral philosophy, which are given by the absence of a fundamental philosophical reflec-tion of new emerging phenomena in changing current society. It is evident, that the highly organized society suffers from fragmentation and loss of coherence of various ethical theories lacking their deeper metaethic justification. The authors of the article point to a Judeo-Christian narration in which they see important metaethic bases for...

The current study is focused on the influence of Nikolai Yakovlevich Grot (1852-1899) on the formation and institutionalization processes in Russian philosophy in the late 1880s. As the editor of the journal “Questions of Philosophy and Psychology” (Voprosi filosofii I psikhologii), Grot transforms this edition into the first press organ which accepts all the philosophical trends. This article aimed at examinating how Grot perceives positivistic, materialistic, scientific and metaphysical concepts, including t...

The term “syncretism” has a complicated history in religious studies, especially it concerns European scientific environment. In Russian science it has appeared with more or less determined meaning. Comparative analysis helped us to reveal the main array of issues that concerns the meaning of the term “syncretism”. In the 70s European academics decided to revive this notion, but since it was ignored it has acquired different synonyms. So academics in the most recent papers debate if the revival of the term...

The aim is to show the disintegration of a personality by analyzing the fragment of “Confession” by St Augustine. It allows us to come from the phenomenological description of personality transformation process to means of psychological defense. By solving the questions of love St Augustine uses hidden rhetorical constructions, which reflect his emotional processes in the most adequate way. They should be analyzed and clarified. The rhetorical aspect of this transformation can be reconstructed from that part o...

The purpose of this work is to show the influence of socio-psychological factors on the irrational behavior of labor agents. A systematic view of labor relations and of the role of socio-psychological factors can only be given by Philosophy, which allows to consider labor relations in an interdisciplinary context. When developing measures to improve socio-economic policy in the field of labor, it is necessary to take into account the incentives that affect the ratio of rational and irrational in the behavior of in...

The article shows the origins of coaching (one of the most effective ways of leadership development) in the Socratic dialogue as it appears in Plato's works. This origin appears in the most advanced way in cognitive coaching based on cognitive therapy. However, it is not only the roots of a young practical science that goes so far into antique philosophy. If we look at the elements of the Socratic method, it turns out that coaching belongs to it not only in the form but - or perhaps more - in its purpose. Formally...

Despite the fraught relationship between abyssal psychology and cultural anthropology, both are applicable to human behavior. Anthropological analysis is directed from the exterior to the interior (i.e., the historical and cultural framework of the Renaissance), in contrast to the psychoanalytical perspective, which follows from the inside out the internal complexity of the human mind and its contribution to the cultural act. Anthropologically, the structural model of the psyche contains both the Freudian personal...

Recent Orthodox Tradition is the perpetuity of Christ’s divine-human life in the Christians from our times understood as part of the Church or of the mystical body of the Resurrected Jesus Christ, the Lord, in Saint Apostle Paul’s own words (1 Cor. 1: 27; Eph. 4: 12). Contemporary theological writings, in their authentic state – as written testimonies of this real experience – are, in their turn, part of this continuous Tradition. They constitute scientific “recordings” of God’s indescribable uncreated ...

The article reflects not just a personal concern of the author of the fate of social and philosophical thought in the era of the tectonic social shifts. This article discusses the problems of modern social and philosophical knowledge, as an appeal to the ontological foundations of sociology and the need for a new perspective on the social phenomena underlying the sociological theories (personality, society, social structure, etc.) taking in account intense social changes in the society of the XXI century. Sociolog...

The process of comprehending the world is given by Wittgenstein in his “Logical Philosophical Treatise” (1920) as a visual image of a ladder. The world of science developed in the Treatise is a world of logic and mathematics, while the worlds given through language games are presented in later works. The former is based on the concept of complex, while the latter – on the concept of paradigm or a local sample which stipulates the rules of the game. The paradigm is formed historically, while the complex is fo...