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The meaning of confidence between manager and employee get more and more famous in the modern art of leadership. It’s no more enough that an employee gets a fair or good salary in a company, what can secure its employment. Also other factors, same as the environment or the relationship to the supervisor must be positive to bind employees to their companies. But what kind of influence has the factor “confidence” for real? Is it really so important, that leaders have to build up a personal relationship to their empl...

The article is focused on the analysis of views of Russian youth on religion, religious values, and The Russian Orthodox Church. The survey of value orientations of the youth in one of the largest regions of Russia (Nizhny Novgorod Region) became the source of the empirical material of the research. This region is considered to be a federal indicator of many socio-economic indexes including religious and confessional ones. The data and information about religious views of the younger generation were collected with...

The relationship between philosophy and history covers many topics and their overlapping results in numerous ideas. Surely, it is also due to the fact that philosophy does not repudiate the methods it uses as obsolete. In connection with the history of philosophy it is thus not possible to speak of theories which lost their validity long time ago. Various streams of thought which, in various ways, react to their predecessors were the inhibitors as well as reflections of contemporary historical events. As a result,...

Today an active attempts of understanding the anthropological and social dimensions of modern technoscience are made. The most important way of technoscience is the NBICS convergence. In the article special attention is paid to the understanding of technoscience as anthroposocial project, including the public in a number of factors that can affect decision-making in the field of innovation management. However, this effect is recursive and requires an understanding of the possible consequences and risks of technosc...

The purpose of the research is to investigate the practices of philosophical communities in Russia within the concept of trading zones and the problem of public philosophy. Our main theoretical framework is the notion of the trading zone, originally developed by Peter Galison to explain intra-scientific collaboration through the coordination of action and belief. In this study, we interpret the concept of trading zones in terms of communications between philosophers and non-philosophers. In so doing, we introduce ...

The purpose of the research consisted in finding elements of theArt of Memory in the work of the prominent author of the Second Sophistic. To achieve this purpose wesubjected to the textual analysis one of the most popular works relating to the Second Sophistic: The Imagines of the Elder Philostratus. Since the Renaissance the book was subject of scientific analysis and, at the same time, source ofinspiration for many artists. Weconcentrated only on searching of elements of the Art of Memory in The Imagines. Excep...

The paper enlarges existing anthropological ontologies on the basis of the theory of complexity, self-organization and nonlocal quantum phenomena. Since recently they have been facilitating quantum-synergetic revolution in NBICS technologies, information quantum theory and physics of the living and are considered to be most promising for the development of artificial intelligence and transhumanism. For this purposes it is suggested to introduce ontologies of states and temporal ontologies of generalized corporalit...

E.O. Wilson, the founder of sociobiology, presents in his work Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge from 1998 a conjecture that postmodernism as a principal line of thought at the end of the 20th century, which is inherent in the mainstream social sciences and humanities, closes the door to the unity of knowledge - the so-called consilience. The purpose of this study was to analyse the possibilities of the consilience of knowledge in humanities and natural and social sciences in the state of postmodern crisis of an...

For Ricoeur, the discourse of action – more specifically, the ‘say your doing’ – can and must be examined from different levels and from different traditional philosophical per-spectives, as follows: (1) conceptual analysis (i.e. the analysis of concepts used to de-scribe action), (2) logical analysis of statements of action (i.e. the proposition by which action is expressed and represented), and (3) the logic of action (i.e. the argumentative construction through which a strategy of action is built and justified ...

This article presents philosophical analysis of such a phenomenon as video games. Today, video games represent a major part of modern culture, which requires a specific research to be carried out. Without studying the ontology of video games it is impossible to give clear answers to such questions as: What are video games? How are they built? It is our goal to disclose and analyze the ontologies in the framework of which video games exist. We need to note that there is no such thing as universal ontology of video ...

The article demonstrates the application of phenomenological description method to describe the architectural space of Saint Petersburg Empire period. The style originating in the French architects designs in the late nineteenth century was fully embodied in St. Petersburg, thus creating the image of a perfect capital. The style involves a particular vision of space, that can be perceived only from a supervisor’s perspective, creating a panoramic view, combining planimetric images with perspective ones, implementi...