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The paper deals with the problem of the “scientific” view of morality, especially its results for philosophy, ethics, and a sense of education. The author considers implications of the thesis about the selfish and determined character of human behaviour and tries to show that these implications follow from a particular kind of interpretation, not from evolutionary and scientific views generally.

The term technical image (according to the media theorist Vilem Flusser, its first form was photography, and the last form by now have been images projected in all possible forms of screens, monitors and displays, including holograms) can be understood as a term referring to the beginning of a new age, which is coming after the age of linear writing. Historically as well as ontologically, compared to the previous tradition, these technical images mean rupture, a breakthrough. Creating technical images was the nece...

The concept of freedom has been understood differently in antiquity. Thus, in the classical Greek world, freedom belongs only to a few individuals. In Athens, only free citizens were considered truly free and not slaves and foreigners. Linguistic history of the word "freedom" demonstrates its origin in the society of slave owners. In such society only the master is free, slaves, women and children, over which he reigns are without freedom. Over time, every ideology claimed that defends and promotes freedom, which,...

Illness and suffering are closely related to post-Adamic human existence. Orthodox spirituality teaches us that God never allows suffering beyond endurance. Present suffering is also proportional with one's personal sins or virtues. So that the most afflicted ones either the most sinful or the most righteous. Thus man discovers that meaning of suffering is that of partaking of the passions of Christ and then suffering becomes a ladder ascending towards heaven. The Mystery of the Holy Unction shares grace healing o...

Nowadays many versions of ontology are loosing their meaning completely or partial. It happens because of various reasons. First of all, the development of information technologies and human sciences, which are influence more and more on the life on the contemporary man, and make him to rethink about the problems of being, and contact with it. Secondary, the process of aesthetisation is getting stronger, and that's why increase the role of the being of the things in the everyday structures. In these case, we pay a...

The time - when people lived fixed within their traditional local communities; with a great complex of plentiful values, norms, believes of different types, superstitions and mythology, so meaningful for them, dominantly controlling their lives and reflecting the profound human-nature connection and local specifics; - has gone for most of us until the present time. There are very few traditionally organised and traditions-driven communities left, untouched by the fast-running process of progress and globalisation....

This paper critically analyses the theory of a French cultural critic, city planner and philosopher Paul Virilio. Virilio's texts deal with the impact of speed on the contemporary world. The development of means of transport used by people for the purpose of movement – from horse carts, railways and cars to planes, culminated by the arrival of digitalized audio visual hypertext, the last “vehicle” that replaces its drivers' physical movement by total inertia. How does that historical succession starting with...

This paper focuses on A Lover's Divination Book (1774) by A. Sumarokov, examining its combinatorial nature and its implicit connections with Leibniz's ars combinatoria. The Russian poet-classicist denied Leibniz's philosophical principles but Sumarokov demonstrated combinatorial theory in his literary practice and confirmed the universality of ars combinatoria. Sumarokov's combinatorial method is based on two levels: formal and substantive. The first one includes mathematic combinations which build the composition...

The paper is divided into three parts. The first part deals with the subject of anti-metaphysical tendencies of modern philosophy while in the second part we try to demonstrate how this idea has been transformed by early analytical philosophy, specifically by L. Wittgenstein in his book Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. In the third part we will demonstrate that Wittgenstein's later work Philosophical Investigations leads to the negation of the idea that serves as the grounds for the rejection of metaphysics by both...

The world was created very good (Genesis 1: 31), since it no evil affected its existence, reality due to God alone, who wanted that world to be a place of communion between Himself and human being. Perfection heavenly of man gave it the opportunity to join with God, because in his nature were present all virtues as natural attributes of his primordial nature. The problem of human being constitutes focus of theologians and scientists who exhibit an intense concern about the human constitution to determine the statu...

Deleuze and Guattari, in What is philosophy? (1991), expose their Image of Thought; they consider that it is possible to think through three disciplines: Philosophy, Science and Art. In all this structure there is no trace of Politics: why is it absent? We cannot try here to make a "Marxist" distinction between theory and practice, thinking that Philosophy, Art and Science are part of the thought and therefore of the theory, while Politics is placed on a different level, which would be that of action and practice....

Nihilism, through its “disturbing presence” (Friedrich Nietzsche), provokes the basic philosophical question of inner justification of existence. The question of being will be deepened and radicalised so that complete clarity of being will make way for the awareness of one`s dark and mysterious traits. Secularisation can be understood as an opportunity for reinterpretation of religion in a situation where nihilism, through its diagnosis, indicates the therapy of the world. In the research a basis question was ...

The article highlights philosophy of moral conflicts that occur within such civilizational processes as globalization, transformation of information and communication environment, and under the influence of life's contradictions, a man's value system and motivations. Based on the analysis of social thinking development and investigation of the moral core of personality, various interpretations of the problem of freedom and its manifestations in the modern youth's consciousness are discussed. It is stated that the ...

Christian teaching is a doctrine of salvation, rescue and love brought along by Christ, not by a philosophical, abstract and theoretical system. Thus, Christianity is a religion revealed in a different manner as compared to the philosophical currents from the period of Christ and His Apostles, because they were seen as converting people and bringing them on God's path and not as issuing a new philosophy that might compete with the already existing ones. The influence on the development of Christian philosophy apol...

Secularization is a phenomenon that generates the desecration of the society and of man. In time, the western culture has disseminated an autonomous conception regarding the world, which has eliminated God from the visible creation, isolating Him in an inaccessible transcendence. The most painful consequence of secularization is the minimization of the human person and of interpersonal communion. In this state of the secularized man one can see the result of an unbalanced conception regarding God, the world and ma...

This article will present the shift in Religious Studies methodology of two Romanian-born scholars (also philosophers and fiction writers): Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) and Ioan Petru Culianu (1950-1991); specifically from Eliade's point of view – namely morphology – to Culianu's morphodynamics (in the terms of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, one of Culianu's favorite authors). Both scholars activated in the field of the scientific study of religion but their theories are equally philosophical. Unfortunately Culianu's...

The purpose of this article is to discuss the three distinct - but by no means exclusive or even necessarily contradictory – fields from which it is always possible to contemplate, analyze, formulate and try to understand what images are. Johannes Hessen will accompany us quite freely here with his germinal Theory of Knowledge, which served to mark the concepts and define the relationships between the sets of questions we wish to raise. This initial option indicates we are treading an open path through a philoso...

The purpose of the article is to analyse the translation of poetry in reference with the notion of poeticity regarded as the essential property of the poetic text subject to representation in the target text and target culture. Basing on the comparative analysis of source and target texts in English and Russian we have come to the conclusion that the source text essence may be represented in the target culture in high, medium or low degrees which correlate with consonant, consonant-dissonant and dissonant kinds of...

This essay deals with the ideas of the Czech phenomenological philosopher Jan Patocka. In particular, I investigate Patocka's conception of the relation of art to †deep' and †superficial' history, which he sketches in his essays from the 1930s and the 1940s. Patocka sketches this conception in the context of his considerations of the various types of education. Patocka shows that art, philosophy, historiography, politics, economy and science represent various †educational powers,' which shape human history. ...

This article will delineate a set of aspects of Ioan Petru Culianu (1950-1991) philosophical viewpoint – what will be called here Culianu's model. Culianu was a Romanian-born historian of Religions, a Literary Theory scholar, and also a fiction author. Culianu's model is an original way of researching Religion (at first), with the intention of extending on Humanities in general, Science and even Literature. It was started by Culianu in several books and articles, but unfortunately it remained unfinished because ...

The article deals with the problem of language influence on the formation of national images of the world in the conditions of globalization and the Internet space expanded potentialities. Since a language as a system of symbols and a communication code preserves and transmits the accumulated experience of generations, it serves to determine the borders of ethnocultural identity, to ensure the reproduction of national images of the world and the historical and cultural succession. Under the influence of globalizat...