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The article is devoted to the problem of seeking the criterion which can verify individual`s spiritual transformation by means of philosophical conversion on the way of gaining one`s nature. Experience of the unlimited cosmic whole which usually happens with an individual in one`s childhood as a feeling of the cosmic immensity of one`s small motherlandis takenas a criterion. The basis of such experience is declared to be imagination freed from limitation of the discursive totality. As soon as childhood experience ...

Yakutia is a region where the largest mining projects have been implemented for several decades, but traditional activities for the North (e.g. livestock, reindeer herding, fishing, hunting and gathering) maintain their steadiness, which spawns conflicts in land and nature use. The paper is devoted to the issue of access of Yakut traditional communities to land and natural resources in the context of ensuring income and consumption on the basis of traditional economic activities. The evolution of the settlement sy...

The present paper analyses archaeological and anthropological materials of the Middle Bronze Catacomb culture found in kurgan cemeteries of the Lower Volga area. The specific features of the burial rite, artifacts and cranial pathologies are related to possible migrations of members of some Catacomb cultures from the territories of the North Caucasus, Caucasus and North Pontic area into the open steppes of the the Lower Volga region. Along with innovations in such areas as bronze metallurgy, ceramic production, tr...

The article introduces the concept of andragogy ethics as a peripheral andragogy discipline. Discussion of this concept is an expression of the interdisciplinary approach (andragogy, ethics and psychology). It justifies the need to study the development of moral character of adults in the contemporary. The concept studies a human being in current global challenges that neoliberal policies are not able to sufficiently cover. Strengthening of ethical and value dimensions as well as influencing adults through andrago...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) play an important role in the development of modern Russian society. Their fast development together with the convergence of computer systems with different types of communications resulted in the need to reevaluate the perception of these technologies in the spiritual sphere of a human being. This paper analyses the implementation of information and communication technologies into the spiritual sphere of the Russian society. Based on the analysis of statistical and...

The philosophy of mind concerns much about how novelty occurs in the world. The very recent progress in this field inspired by quantum mechanics indicates that symmetry restoration occurs in the mind at the moment when new creative thought arises. Symmetry restoration denotes the moment when oneВ’s cognition leaves ordinary internalized mental schemes such as conceptual categories, heuristics, subjective theories, conventional thinking, or expectations. At this moment, fundamentally new, original thought may arise...

The material of expedition ethnographic field studies highlights the history and culture of one of the interesting and distinct ethnolocal groups of Evens living in the Kamchatka Territory. This group of Evens, which had come off the main massif of the Evens of Yakutia and resettled in the middle of the nineteenth century on the territory of modern Kamchatka, was influenced by a number of contact ethnoses, which left a mark on its cultural appearance and ethnographic features. Based on the population census of 192...

An extensive literature is devoted to the origin of reindeer breeding; moreover, there is no common opinion on the time and centers of reindeer herding, the ways and forms of its distribution. Some researchers saw in the reindeer herding the oldest form of cattle breeding, which goes back almost to the Palaeolithic traditions. This point of view was supported by V.G. Bogoraz, G.P. Sosnovsky, V.I. Ravdonikas, N. Ya. Marr, U. Sirelius, V. Shmidt, V. Koppers, S. V. Kiselev, S.?. Tokarev and H. Paulhausen [1]. Current...

Through the analysis of the archival materials and own field data collected in the Iul’tinskii district in Chukotka the authors tracked the changes in a diet of Amguema Chukchi reindeer herders at the second part of the XX – beginning of the XXI centuries. During this period indigenous peoples of the Arctic dramatically changed their food consumption patterns. This paper aims to analyze the process of how a diet change in the North-Eastern Chukotka was accompanied by a transition to a new regime of food autonom...

The article deals with the practice of gift-giving and sharing in modern hunter-gatherer societies, namely among the Evenkis and some other people speaking Tungus languages. This study is based on the field researches conducted in 1988–1991, 1999–2002, 2005–2008 in different regions of Siberia. Being originally taiga hunters and reindeer herders, the Evenkis practiced a custom called nimat. Sharing of a large animals hunter has killed with his neighbours and strangers is at the core of this practice based on...

The work can be seen as a consecration, but also as a form of dehumanization, that alienates our human condition. Since the emergence of the industry in so-called "developed" countries, many people have dreamed of a humanizing job. However, the evolution of tasks and the speed of change imposed by technologies engulf many workers with anxiety. It becomes difficult for them to reconcile work and family life or civic engagement. Pope Leo XIII already denounced these constraining, competitive and monopolizing factors...

The paper concerns the analysis of the main concepts of West European tradition of Philosophy, which are the concepts of the other, the subject and the encounter. The research has been inspired by the work of world known indologist Gerhard Oberhammer, particularly the articles ‘Im Angesicht des Anderen. Ramanujas Saranagatigadya. Einwichtiger Text vishnuitisher Religionstradition’ and ‘‘Begegnung’ als Kategorie der Religionshermeneutik’. It is interesting both from historical-philosophical and indological po...

Historical facts are not objects. В‘Historical-realВ’ is constitutively representational and constitutively temporal because it is a process. The question of what is a given truth in history then becomes the dilemma of creating a representative reconstruction of the process of (past) events that is close to the В‘realВ’ events as they are given in that specific time. Those В‘realВ’ events have been conceived, represented, lived, created, and narrated. The interweaving of the theory of history and the [cognitive] t...

Honor for parents and the institution of the family, which are the basis of rightly functioning world according to holy scriptures of world religions, are in postmodern world going through heavy and long-term crisis. Children and youth are raised in the social environment full of fear, distrust, egocentrism, consumerism and lax values, which are promoted by masmedia and popular personalities. Parents are no more generally considered to be decisive and certain authority for their descendants. Due to the increasing ...

Human identity is constitutively В‘historicalВ’, as well as cultural and a narrative. History is the quintessence of us, as human beings that live in a certain epoch and within a certain culture. But because of the fact that this formation and configuration of our personal identity is rooted in historical, psychological and linguistic (Steiner) mechanisms of representation, then by modifying certain representational axes (i.e., modifying culture, narration, lifestyle practicesВ…) not only may we modify the meaning...

Modern information technologies keep changing our world and bringing a new quality to it. A new type of culture has emerged – information culture, which reflects the specifics of social relations in a modern society. The paper raises the issue of information culture formation and its impact on the development of personality in the course of information socialization. The paper analyses possible perspectives and consequences of social interaction of people within information culture at the main stages of formatio...

The article is devoted to the study of communicative practices in the system of science which are revealed through interactions mediated by concepts, attitudes, and texts. A distinction is made between information and cognitive exchange in the practice of scientific communication. The questions of the communication semantics in their connection with the problem of understanding and preconception are related to the actual analysis of interdisciplinary dialogue in science. The study of the problems of scientific dis...

An intellective and convulsive spirit (in Madura and Cartage, where he attended his secondary studies, and also in Milan, where he attended Platonist circles), Augustine passed from the knowledge of the sensible world to that of the intelligible, irrevocably fascinated by wisdom perceived as a modus vivendi. He aspired to happiness, yet he did not fully understand it until he was able to know himself. By gaining self-knowledge he understood that there is someone, beyond himself, who helped him discover himself as ...

Wittgenstein's views have been considered from different perspectives: from the standpoint of logic, philosophy, methodology of science, theory of mind and, finally, from the standpoint of religion, mysticism and myth. However, they are not so often considered from the perspective of natural sciences. Wittgenstein distinguishes between a name and a word. The name is on the surface, while the word affects emotions, penetrating into life. How deep does it penetrate into reality? This issue can be approached from two...

Marxist conception of philosophy is traditionally associated with communism and new principles of economical formations. Of course, social-economic basis is the crucial milestone of the Marxist theory. But if we look a bit deeper into the philosophic concept we will probably notice that one of the main global goals of the whole theory was the establishment of global system of peace, granted by non-conflict potential of international relations. Thus, for Marxism (international relations), the attention is not only ...

The article discusses the memorial mass tourism in modern Russia. It is noted that in recent years in Russia there has been an increase in the number of citizens traveling around the country. It is shown that the main content of domestic tourism was the preservation of the historical memory of the events of the Second World War. The main tourist sites are the monuments of military glory, memorials, places of battles, mass graves of soldiers and civilians. There are many new routes related to the patriotic themes. ...

This study aims to describe the main musical and aesthetic concepts that define music as a special kind of language. The Ancient Greek doctrine of ethos claims that music is associated with feelings, since it imitates the human voice and expresses oneВ’s state of mind or mood. In the doctrine of the affections music is compared to the art of rhetoric in its ability to affect emotions. So if rhetoric is an art of persuasion, then music is an art of suggestion. Romanticism in its turn declares music the language of ...

Nietzsche's reduction of reason to “practice” of the irrational life, which schematizing chaos, is considered as important aspect of radical turn from classic to non classic European philosophy. Hermeneutic and comparative methods of a history-philosophical research are used. It is shown that M. Heidegger in lectures of 1936?40, which were devoted to F. Nietzsche, actually interprets his genealogy method as some kind of phenomenology reduction. The last allows to find, in the base of conceptual thinking, initi...

The article focuses on the study of communicative culture in the northern TungusesВ’ (Evens and Evenks)geocultural space based on using of an integrated approach to the illumination of peripheral ethnolocal groups of the YakutianTunguses. The focus of the researchВ’s attention is the analysis of traditional and modern behavioral strategies, ethnic identity, as well as symbolic means of communication as a spiritual component of culture using methods of interpretive anthropology. The use of this approach also enable...

The article deals with the issues of overcoming В‘dialogue gapsВ’ risks in non- linear cultural environment. Superfast transformations in different life spheres during transition periods to a new cultural and civilizational development type are caused by scientific and technological innovations, changes in cultural environment and interaction forms complication between individuals, social groups and communities of different cultures generating communicative risks and form expansion of socio-cultural regulators. Th...

The period of the late 2nd – beginning 1st millennium BC in the Eurasian steppes and in the Lower Volga region was marked by the emergence of cattle breeding which was a new form of nomadic economic order. Some historians associate the transition to semi-nomadic and nomadic economy with climatic changes in the form of increasing processes of aridization and technological prerequisites. In the early Iron Age, along with environmental and economic changes, numerous cultural and ethnic transformations took place. T...

The article is devoted to the original author's conception of development of contemporary nonclassical (postnonclassical) science. According to this model, evolution of science is a unity of two processes: a) a process of discretion, formulation and solving of basic scientific problems and b) a process of reflexive-critical comprehension of results of scientific search and its main stages. Intra-scientific and general cultural reflexion reveals features of self-organization and self-correction (in the terms of Cha...

There has been a trend towards the destruction of semantic unity between the past, present and future generating significant gaps in social memory of the people in the XXI century. The pace of sociocultural changes become extremely high. All these challenges relate to the process of globalization, strengthening of mass communications unification and unpredictable consequences of modernization projects. Challenges of modern situation demand a participation of new specialists in educational process who have interdis...

Among many skills characteristic of critical thinking, in our opinion, the ability to work with texts is the most important. Working with texts always implies a dialogue between the reader and the author. Regardless of the period when the text was written, each time it is read it is given a new life. Texts focusing on the same problem can present different eras, positions, and perspectives. Students studying texts become researchers who should be able to compare texts and hold a dialogue taking into account the pe...

The article reveals the importance of the religious factor in the making of culture; examines the mechanism of interaction of knowledge and will in the formulation of moral imperatives, and also proved the impossibility of social morality in society without religious Absolutes. Culture has hundreds of definitions, the content of which can be clarified as in the context of its correlation with various facets of socio-historical life, and with philosophical categories. Due to the multiplicity of manifestations and g...

Before being subjected to ethnological, historical and psychosocial research, religion – in this case the issues regarding its essence, origin and development – represented a subject of reflection for generations of thinkers, with inherent oscillations and inconsistencies, which could be called the philosophy of religion. [9] In this paper, we discussed the connection between God and the human being, we talked about the human soul that can relate to God through religious feelings and worship. This relationship...

This article focuses on the sacred space, on specifics of deploymentand manifestation in the profane world. About hierotopy as a method that allows to study the processes of creation of sacred space and the consciousness of people participating in the process of sacralization. Particular attention is paid to the hierotopic practice of sacralization as the method of transforming profane space into a sacred space. It is accentuatedthe difference between hierophany and hierotopy as two ways of creating a sacred space...

From the point of view of modern science, we do not know all the properties of light. We still have a very poor idea of light. Apparently, our understanding about the environment, including light, are still very primitive and simple. We know almost nothing about the surrounding nature, the cosmos, about other civilizations. In a scientific way - about the microcosm, the macrocosm and megacosm. In a popular way - about the middle, upper and lower worlds. Human organs of the senses do not sense the invisible ritual ...

Solidarity is a natural social requirement and represents the link that binds human beings together in mutually supportive relationships. Sometimes this link can break and people find themselves destitute, in difficulty, in loneliness, illness, rupture. To meet these needs, people are involved in charitable organizations, religious or not. Those people and organizations committed to the defense of human rights, for development and against poverty, for justice and peace, work for a culture of life. Christians certa...

Domestication is a continuing process which takes place in the context of animalsВ’ and humansВ’ cohabitation on same territory and should not be approached as a one-time and completed action. The control over animalsВ’ movements in the context of the sustaining landscape is one of the main aspects of reindeer domestication. Reindeer herding is based on constant relocation of animals from place to place, implying daily short-term movements in order to bring them to a camp and to monitor predatorsВ’ movements. In c...

The article discusses the main properties of spatial orientation in the traditional cultural landscape of Sakha people (Yakuts) in the Vilyui region. Particular attention is paid to the centrality, multiscale structure and anisotropy of cultural landscape at the local level. We have described characteristic features of the mental design of cultural landscape based on mythological representations and traditions of the local community. The real design of the ethnocultural landscape reflecting the natural and economi...

The aim of the article is to study the epistemological nature of irony, namely, in identifying irony as a way of human mental activity. The importance of the problem is determined by a number of factors, such as searching the solution of the problem of intrinsical knowledge of reality, of the problem of development, structure, forms and capabilities of human reasoning, as well as of the problem of human creative abilities. The article claims that the nature of irony as a way of thinking is connected with the juxta...

The highest achievement of science is considered to be the knowledge of the laws of nature in objects and phenomena in their life cycle. A new vector of development of science-the way of synthesis, the search for strategies to expand the objective scientific rationality. Synergetics, as a powerful tool for coevolution of the various forms of knowledge, reveals the inner link between scientific rationality and Olonkho. From the point of view of physics, the argument for understanding the phenomenon of storytelling ...

Does humanity need certain norms and morals of life, rules of behavior, prohibitions? Why are they needed? These questions always remain controversial and open. Each ethnic group has its own specific moral norms, prohibitions, views on ethical principles, sometimes incomprehensible to others. This paper reveals the traditional ethical norms of the Sakha people behavior, to try to answer to stated above eternal questions. Authors consider a prohibition in traditional culture, based on the religious views of the Sak...

In this work the terms prapatti and tawakkul are considered as similar ones in sense and value in the Vai??ava and Sufi religious and philosophical traditions. Both terms mean the condition of self-surrender to God which lead the devotees to the spiritual realization in the scope of the particular tradition. The doctrine of prapatti take a special place in Vai??avism. It origins arise at least from P?ñcar?tra sa?hit’s and religious poetry of the ??v?rs (aprox. 6-10th cent.). It is regarded as the alternative pa...

The history of food consumption offers a wide range of thematic and disciplinary facets, lending itself to approaches in economic and environmental, scientific and technical, social and religious history. The aim of this paper is to reconstruct the history of a typical product in a Southern Italian Region, Puglia, to allow us to show the relationship between agriculture, local alimentary tradition, agro-food industry and governmental policies. The idea is to bring out, through the history of a local product, the i...

This paper focuses on the relation between the rhetoric of J.-F. LyotardВ’s late writings, The Confession of Augustine in particular, as well as the philosophical approach to the human body in the thought of J.-L. Nancy (Corpus), and the imagery of the early seven-teenth century English metaphysical poetry of John Donne and George Herbert. In the poems, the sublime topics and affections are introduced in the contrastive light of the symbols of earthly matters and the carnal mind, as well as the metaphors of precis...

The paper focuses on the paradox of material implication with the special reference to the Duns Scotus Law associated therewith. The article contains two different proofs of this law. The paper also seeks to evaluate the role of this law in the proof theory and the damage caused to the latter by the multitude of non-classical approaches in logic which call this law into question. The paper also addresses the conditions upon which the statements about empty sets are possible and evaluates the relevance of material ...

NietzscheВ’s various observations about the body undoubtedly represent a fundamental hermeneutic crossroad in the area of the moral reflection on the topic of corporeity. At the same time, the reconstruction of his thought on this delicate subject constitutes a decisive testbed to critically rethink reason, seeking to review its position within the world of the human. The Leitmotif of the body firmly binds to one another NietzscheВ’s harsh criticisms of the Western civilisation, which, from Socrates onward, saw th...

This paper aims to deepen the relationship between testimony and historical reconstruction putting particular attention around the process of historisation of memory. Testimony supposedly has preeminence among sources of historical knowledge in that it eliminates distance from the past, actualising it and somehow offering the possibility to В‘re-experienceВ’ it through the narrative medium (oral or written). Beyond the specific, onto-logical and epistemological problematic gap between the lapsed past and its repre...

Created in the image of God, the man is destined for a perfect life, for the similarity with Him, which must be materialized through the presence of grace in his life. The first man, who wavered in the Garden of Eden between „eating” and „not eating” from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, chose to live no longer close to God and to „win” the distance, the independence, and the existence „outside”. Destined to be person, capable and open to the communion of persons, following the model of the ...

One of the most important elements involved in the formation of cultural security of the state is the institution of the family. It is family values that underlie the formation of the civic position of young people, which are expressed in the awareness of their involvement in the ideas, principles, religions and local cultural values of the state. Despite the obvious huge role of the institution of the family for the society as a whole, this structure is not always stable and sometimes disintegrates before it has ...

The technology of keeping reindeer has its own characteristics that directly affect the productivity of reindeer husbandry. The main condition for further increase in the number of reindeer and increase their productivity is the rational use of pastures, that is, compliance with the correct methods of keeping and grazing reindeer. For the organization of the most complete and correct use of fodder grounds it is necessary knowledge not only of productivity of pastures, but also changes of vegetation under the influ...

The article is devoted to the analysis of PlotinusВ’ notion of non-being. As a methodological base of the research, a problem-based approach is applied. The world in the PlotinusВ’ system is hierarchical. There are two opposite extremes in this world, the One and Matter. Plotinus described the One and Matter enabling us to raise the two questions that constitute the problem of non-being. First, is the One non-being? Secondly, is it necessary to recognize matter as non-being? At the same time, the analysis of The E...

The processes of national self-identification and globalization are closely intertwined in the life of modern society. It is on this basis that their study and understanding should be carried out in correlation. Globalization is a complex set of factors of influence in the modern world, which determine, among other things, the vectors of identification processes. National identity is formed at the boundaries of multiple cultural worlds. The process of national self-identification is a complex and contradictory uni...