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Topicality. The question of self-identification of contemporary national philosophy remains insufficiently studied. This paper specifies the tradition of philosophizing in France – the most influenceable national philosophy in Europe. In the year of 50th anniversary of May-1968 the report attempts to apply the historical reconstruction to the analysis of main ideas of the so-called “French theory”. The aim is to propose an analysis model for postmodern philosophy in France as a continuous tradition of consis...

Nowadays the world development is characterized by application of various practices that manipulate human consciousness. Cultural diplomacy of the Soviet Union was one of these practices. Its analysis involves the search for research programs and application of various epistemological schemes that enable us to obtain and form ideas about this phenomenon. The choice of a cognitive method is ontologically determined by the nature of philosophical knowledge and requires addressing the socio-cultural context of the co...

The article deals with the process of childbirth and the factors affecting it. Actuality of this work is caused by the significant decline in the birth rate in Russia in 2017-2018. The article describes the institution of the family as an integral part of the socio-economic structure of society, in which changes of the whole system naturally entail changes in its elements. Groups of factors influencing the childbirth process are determined. The main attention is devoted to the analysis of the influence of economic...

This paper considers boredom as a non-authentic modus of human existence, which includes emptiness of life and absence of fullness, as the opposite to an authentic modus, which means living full and meaningful life. From the one hand, by contrast, it could be used as a source of inspiration. From the other hand, from the deeper point of view, it could be used as an opportunity to manage self-transformation. We also used a classification of types of boredom by M. Heidegger - from the routine to the deep existential...

Transhumanism is the movement for a radical change in human nature: physiology, emotions and feelings, intellect, etc.; it exists for several decades. Transhumanism as a project of human transformation is impossible without the use of high technologies. These include cloning, genetic engineering, cognitive technology, nanotechnology, information technology. It is important that Transhumanism uses scientific developments, but is not limited to them. The ideologists of Transhumanism try, firstly, to explain the reas...

The article analyzes the problem of compensatory communication in a modern communicative situation. The defining influence on the world of communication these days has been performed by the development of new social networks. For example, the Internet has greatly expanded the sphere of people's information interaction and its opportunities as a means of communication and socialization. Communication in networks can compensate some deformations in the structure of direct interpersonal communication that is subjecti...

1520 is the turning point year for Corpus Dionysiacum in its positive reception, especially in the West, Martin Luther expressing, as an echo of the reforming philologists, the total repulsion towards it, naming the text “pernitiosissimus” (extremely dangerous) and its controversial author “plus platonizans quam Christianizans” (“more a Platonist than a Christian”), because of promoting “unbiblical” ideas such as: “hierarchy” (Apostolic succession), “Theurgy” (Priesthood), and “sacred mys...

The author studies the motives and consequences of the terrorist attack against the French satirical weekly В‘Charlie HebdoВ’ from the viewpoint of the theory of moral/right action in ethics of social consequences, following George Edward MooreВ’s theory of right action. According to the author, it could be claimed that the action of Islamic radicals was immoral, while the actions of the Charlie Hebdo editorship were wrong. This assessment also corresponds with the motives of the reasoning, decision making, behavi...

The age-old dispute between supporters of egalitarian and elitist paradigms has lasted for many centuries, both within the framework of political philosophy and in the depths of socio-political doctrines. One of the stumbling blocks to this discourse is the problem of justice. Each side offers its own vision of this key segment of their system and tries to convince everyone of the historical validity of its ideological position. Such a confrontation led to serious socio-political conflicts, with uncountable casual...

The multidimensional space of the digital (networking) era is making adequate understanding of events increasingly difficult. Continuous accumulation and layering of infinitely large amounts of data (big data) is implicitly undermining qualitative forecast of any type, although it is supposed to work the other way round. Thus modern philosophers, interpreting the new digital reality, are facing the ever more obvious task of creating relevant ontological models, able to encompass the whole complexity of the network...

The present paper outlines approaches to worldview researching language education in on-line environments and survey research that has been conducted to date. Is it worthwhile to use the Internet in Practical Philosophy of Language Education? How does Philosophy of Language Education use change in on-line environments? What are the best ways to incorporate e-mail or the World Wide Web into the classroom? We can use several approaches to learn and research about such issues. One is to talk to fellow lecturers and p...

The folk ceremonial culture was directly connected with three main events of human life: birth, wedding, and path to the next world. The most ancient and the best-preserved in worldВ’s history is the funeral rite, which is one of the most ethnic signs of culture. In comparison with other rites, it is one of the most conservative, because embodies a slowly changing vision of the death, the spirit world, and the relationship between dead and alive. However funeral rite vulnerable to transformation, which attests to ...

The authors of the article set themselves a goal to think over the influence of hermeneutic tradition and conceptual idea of discourse in the works of European thinkers of XIX-XX centuries on appearance of communicative issues in philosophy. Philosophical idea till ?? century stated the problem of understanding as a necessary factor of cognitive human activity, as an existence factor. On the base of the theory of communicative activity and communicative rationality the authors make the attempt to ground a wider ap...

The authors represent modern society as a society in which the logic of market relations has become the logic of all relations. The market imposes its own conditions and means, which are used between people. The brand is one of the characteristic phenomena of the culture of the consumer society and capitalist society. In such a society, the brand functions as a socio-cultural phenomenon. On the one hand, the brand is a tool of the market. On the other hand, the brand can be viewed as an independent cultural form. ...

Information processes in the public consciousness attract attention of many philosophers from different philosophical directions. It is generally accepted that a common methodological basis for analysing the substantive content of these information processes has not yet been found. In this article, the author proposes a debatable version of such a methodology, within which it may be possible (maybe quite possible) consistent (without conflict) understanding of the basic content of information processes in the publ...

In Slovakia the beginnings of systematic interest in folklore and culture are related to the Enlightenment or to the early periods of Slovak National Revival. The first Slovak sources documenting the systematic and conceptual interest in prosaic folklore, as presented by the German romantic school and which received a great deal of appreciation on a European scale in the form of writing and editing, was in the 1840s. As in other areas of scientific interest, the same methodological principle was applied here and f...

The work substantiates rationale of the innovative culture research as a basis and driver of the postindustrial society development. It describes its nature, structure and implementation. Formed in the conditions of postindustrial (information) society the innovative culture organically combines knowledge, experience and creative aspirations of previous generations with the latest scientific achievements in various fields of scientific, technical and social and humanitarian knowledge. Culture holds a special place...

The article deals with the problematics of origins and specificity of Russian anarchism. The authors prove that two central versions of Russian anarchism created by M.A. Bakunin and L.N. Tolstoy were dependent on J.G. FichteВ’s religious philosophy. The authors refute the idea that Russian philosophy was under strong influence of Hegelianism. It appears that Fichtean late philosophy was much more important source for the thinking of Russian anarchists. M.A. Bakunin is understood as the founder of the fichteonized ...

This paper is devoted to the philosophical research of videogames as a phenomenon of modern culture. The subject for study is myth and mythological structures in videogames. Videogames represent value and meaning related constructions of the modern époque. However, they fulfill mythological elements inherent to the archaic consciousness at the same time because the archaic story of the hero’s way consisting of the three basic stages – exodus, initiation, and returning along with the appearance of the hero’s i...

The objective of the text is to focus on museum-based education as an element of critical pedagogy of space based. The text is the result of project titled Regional or trans-regional cultural education using the example of museums finansed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. It shows regional museums play important role in teaching about space interpreted as a glocal cathegory. The task of education is to make this journey more visible and to show its educational value, with particular emphasis on th...

In recent decades, attention to the issue of В‘narrative identityВ’, and problems connected to it, has seen an exponential development in different research fields, with the effect of significant connections and intertwining between various disciplines, both at the theoretical-reflective level and at the level of an applicative research. It is true that, in addition to the fields of narratology and the science of culture, narrative identity is mainly thematised in the psychological field. It is here, in fact, that...

A speculative study concerning the role of imagination in representing and constructing the subjective of self meaningfully involves the intertwining between the theme of the image with that of the imagination as a common speculative practice. In this paper, the author will proceed from a philosophical overview around the question of personal identity to an exploration onto certain current uses of imagination in the most recent research on human sciences and neurosciences. The aim is to summarise the consequences ...

Abstract. The paper explores the cold as a vital attribute of civilisation. The authors criticise the common understanding of the cold as a source of misery, and the North as a place of primitiveness and backwardness. On the basis of the method of „Wissen-schaftslehre“ by J.G. Fichte, the authors produce the idea of the existence of the collec-tive superconsciousness of the northerners that specifically expresses the freedom. The authors conclude on the basis of cosmism philosophy that the cold can be regarded ...

The ontological turn or ontologically-oriented approach accentuates the key importance of intercultural variability in ontologies. Different ontologies produce different ways of experiencing the world, and therefore, participation in alternative realities is very desirable in anthropological and ethnological investigation. Just the participation in alternative realities itself enables researchers to experience alterity and ontoconceptual differences. The present study aims to demonstrate the power of ritual in alt...

The aim of this study is to analyze the phenomenon of detective story and its evolution in the context of modern development. It is regarded by us as a complex multilevel system, the fundamental principles of which permeate the entire fabric of European culture, generating, in particular, such a phenomenon as a detective story. Hermeneutical and comparative analysis of different types of detective is designed to deepen and expand the existing understanding of modernity, the features of its development and the natu...

The article examined the main characteristics of philosophical contemplation as a method of philosophizing, as well as the experience of philosophical self-knowledge in accordance with the main characteristics of the philosophical practice of existentialism on the example of “philosophical confession” by N.A. Berdyaev. According to this philosophical practice, in order to truly be a human, one should not be in a state emotional relaxation, but, on the contrary, one should mental tension, the desire towards a s...

This article refers to the philosophical study of myth construction in videogames. We have studied how the philosophical ideas of the Modern Era (which has the idea of rationalization in its core) were presented in videogames using horror games as examples. We have analyzed the narrative of Modernization as “disenchantment of the world” (M. Weber) in several game series (Outlast, The Evil Within, Resident Evil). Eventually, we have concluded that the narration in these games is constructed in accordance with a...

The philosophy of science and technology has sufficient methodological potential for the interpretation of categorical apparatus, taking into account the various features of modern philosophy and science. Postnonclassical science is characterized by the multiplicity of ideas and concepts, and therefore multiparticulate. The proclamation of a specific scientific paradigm as a key direction generates pluralism of opinions not only in a certain area of research, but also in philosophy and science as a whole. To date,...

Philosophy and methodology of science has sufficient methodological and categorical resource for transposition of concepts, principles and categories of philosophy in various scientific fields, including applied. One of the key features of post-nonclassical science is multiparadigmatic. Often, this feature is the main factor in the emergence of a plurality of ideas and concepts in the context of one direction of research and post-nonclassical science and philosophy. At the turn of the century, the newest interdisc...

The subject of the research relates to how the shame is developed in view of the human species, personВ’s socialization and the differentiation from other animals. Its purpose is also to identify the role of shame in the course of forming a personВ’s cultural system in the context of ontogenesis. Various definitions of shame are given and its distinction from fear and guilt is clarified. In addition, we discuss the origins of shame, the types of shame and the means to overcome it. We point out, that the early form...

This paper demonstrates how the potential of philosophical practice can be used in correcting social anxiety disorder. The paper is based on the theory of P. Harteloh that medical diagnosis related to mental disorders could be complemented by philosophical diagnosis. Therefore, philosophical practice functions as a therapy. We defined three non-productive attitudes of individuals with social anxiety disorder: shifting responsibility outward, considering the Other as dangerous, and focusing on “having” instead ...

The paper is dedicated to some aspects of veneration of sacred objects: the Heaven (Tengri), mountains, hills, caves, stones, water sources, trees. Along veneration of sacred objects of natural landscape, an important place in the beliefs of Kazakhs occupies veneration of ancestors, warriors-heroes, cultural heroes. The vast area around their burials, are considered sacral, within which it is forbidden to tear plants, to hunt for wild animals and on which it is necessary to keep cleanliness. Traditional ritual beh...

This research concerns the mystery as epistemological and aesthetic category. The objective of this paper is mystery as the particular form of conscious. The main target is the esthetical hypostasis of mystery and its role in artВ’s evolution. Phenomenological conception of conscious by E. Husserl is the base of the research as the method. It is dedicated to phenomenological conception of conscious and we emphasize the intentionality is the most important issue of this conception. Subsequently we consider that the...

Our research offers a solution to the problem of searching for a universal methodology that will allow describing the structure and functions of consciousness in the form of a coherent system. As such a methodology, we consider the constructivist approach. Thanks to consciousness, the subject builds a constructive relationship with the world, realizes the subjectivation of reality, which is conditioned by a single system of mutually defining and mutually referring constructs. In the system of these constructs, bot...

In the modern world of extensive information exchanges, the media space has become an important component in the functioning of modern society. The author of this article applies a complex of philosophical, general scientific and special research methods and ensures the unity of socio-cultural, philosophical and axiological analysis of the media space. There are different approaches to defining the concept of media space, in particular, sociological, psychological, journalistic, socio-cultural, etc. The author arg...

In this article the problem of being philosopher is represented. The article is started with the presupposition that philosophers left modern universities and they were replaced by professors of philosophy. The problem here lays in the boundaries that modern student does not need philosophy only as a tool, a terminological and conceptual apparatus, but as a specific way of understanding the self and the Other. Some methods from the practice В‘care of the selfВ’ (Michel Faucalt and Pierre Hadot) and philosophical p...

The article deals with the transformation of the Orthodox pilgrimage tradition in the global information society. The new civilizational factors such as the formalization of the virtual space, the development of informative forms of activity (for example, tourism), the formation of a new type of religiousness (new or postmodern), etc. lead to radical changes in religious practices and ritual activities. In the contemporary society pilgrimageis considered through religious tourism along with excursional tourism of ...

The relevance of the research is explained by global socio-cultural transformations affecting all spheres of the Russian society life. These changes actualized the search for mechanisms to overcome social fragmentation due to the political, economic, religious, ethnic and other crises of our time. The desire of society to reach agreement, in the context of sociocultural unity, overcoming the narrowness of the boundaries of "merger", is now transformed into a more voluminous concept of "inclusion". Inclusion in soc...

The article is devoted to the analysis of arguments in defense of the physicalist theory of consciousness in the version of "biological naturalism", or rather, "neurobiological naturalism". This approach to consciousness implies that consciousness, firstly, is considered as a property of the material system, and, secondly, it is the product of a long biological evolution. The philosophical grounds for this approach are the works of J. Searle, and neurobiological - the works of T.E. Fainberg and J. Mallatt. "Neurob...

The article analyzes the factors that determine the state of modern civil publicity, considers approaches to the understanding of its new forms. Actualization of the research of the phenomenon of publicity is conditioned by the formation of virtual reality, complication of political communication of the modern world, development of net-activism. The originality of the work is determined by the problematization of the contradiction between the impersonation of political communication in virtual reality and the need...

The focus of the paper is the nonclassical concepts of responsibility. They lead to the emergence of a specific responsibility ethics in the modern morality theory. There is much evidence that nonclassical concept of responsibility comes across meaningful changes in the understanding of responsibility nature. The changes emerge from the shift of the theoretical and methodological focus to the real-life context, to the reality of the moral life, to actions and responsible choice of the individual, to the rationale ...

In the activities and behavior of people an important place is occupied by the information aspect. The analysis of information influence on the subject's consciousness is one of the fundamental problems of social philosophy. In modern research offers many options for such analysis. In particular, some studies suggest that several of the most important information problems associated with the transfer of information from one entity to another are highlighted. In this article, I will analyze only one of these proble...

The article considers M. HeideggerВ’s and H. ArendtВ’s approaches to the problem of the self in its connection to the problem of the Other, emphasizing the significance of ArendtВ’s comprehension of conscience. The methodological basis of the study is formed by the systematic method, the comparative analysis of approaches, and the transition from the particular to the general in the formulations of conclusions. The analysis of the call of conscience, which according to Heidegger turns our existence towards itself ...

The following text discusses some relationships between humans, image, and, language, within the perspective that language can be, which often different from what is usually suggested, i.e., not a "barrier" to reaching what is real or profound knowledge but for some people the exact opposite: the only possible way to expand one’s horizons and experience what is to be known about the world. To recognize the positive force of language, we argument is based on the well-known story of writer Helen Keller, who became...

This paper focuses on the virological epistemology principles that form the basis for viral idea translation in terms of the world of knowledge (“Third World”, as defined by Karl Popper). Within this framework, five principles can be identified, specifically, dependence on the knowledge holder, infecting, spreading, networking and self-organization. For the evolutionary epistemology, with the modern evolutionary synthesis being its metaphorical resource, such transfer is quite traditional. Two constituents of ...