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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 artificial intell...

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 is real...

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 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 formed g...

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...

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 accountants’ 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 accountants’ profession in Portugal, for men and women, and to understand how they also f...

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 of “C...

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 hand...

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...