Reference:
Gamalei S.Y..
B. Miller's work on the stage of the Jewish Theater of Birobidzhan
// Philosophy and Culture.
2024. ¹ 9.
P. 66-76.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2024.9.69674 EDN: KJLTZI URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=69674
Abstract:
The relevance of the research topic is determined by the tasks of cultural policy implemented in the Russian Federation at the present stage, according to which culture is elevated to the rank of national priorities when its successful development is inextricably linked with the use of already accumulated historical experience. That is why the aim of the work was to explore the work of the Jewish writer Boris Miller through his works, which were staged in the Jewish theaters of Birobidzhan. Boris Miller is a famous Jewish writer who has lived and worked in the Jewish Autonomous Region for many years. His fate was inseparable from the political processes taking place in the country. So in the 1930s, he successfully worked in journalism, but already in the context of the struggle against cosmopolitanism he would be repressed. Despite this, after returning from the camp, he will continue to work in the literary field and will write many wonderful literary works. In his work, he addressed topics close to him. Based on the articles of periodicals, the author was able to analyze three performances based on the writer's plays: "He is from Birobidzhan", "Miracles do not happen", "Thirty-three Heroes". These performances will be a creative find of Jewish theaters, but their study was not the subject of research, which is the novelty of this work. Also, for the first time in the historiography of the presented topic, the names of actors who played roles in performances based on B. Miller's plays are mentioned. In conclusion, the author comes to the conclusion about the inseparable connection of the writer Boris Miller with the Jewish theater groups of Birobidzhan, which led to joint work on the creation of high-quality and relevant works for the Soviet period.
Keywords:
Miracles do not happen, He is from Birobidzhan, Birobidzhan Star, Bengelsdorf M, Arones Faivish, Miller Boris, Jewish actors, Jewish Autonomous Region, State Jewish Theater, Jewish People's Theater
Reference:
Gribkov A.A..
Human beings in a civilization of cognitive technologies
// Philosophy and Culture.
2024. ¹ 1.
P. 22-33.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2024.1.69678 EDN: KAPIMN URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=69678
Abstract:
The problematics of civilization development and the place of human being in it is a significant area of research, which is additionally actualized nowadays in the conditions of the outlined transition to a new stage - the civilization of cognitive technologies. According to the assessment proposed in the article, three stages of civilization development should be distinguished: agrarian, machine, and the civilization of cognitive technologies, which is currently being formed. It is characterized by the main need in the form of artificial cognitive systems for intellectual control of machines for the production of material goods, and the result of satisfying this need is the replacement of human beings by artificial cognitive systems in the intellectual control of machines. The following several questions are key in the context of the mentioned problems: "What are the functions of human beings in the existence and development of civilization?", "Do these functions change?", "Are there inalienable ones among them?", "What can become the basis for the further development of civilization?". The functions of human beings within civilization are the generation of needs and work to satisfy them. Generation of needs is an inalienable function of human being in civilization, which determines the determining role of the evolution of needs in the development of civilization. The main role in the evolution of needs belongs to social mechanisms of compulsion (motivation) to consumption, which influence not only the satisfaction of social needs, but also stimulate excessive consumption of material goods and intellectual activity. Further development of civilization will preserve the position of human being as an initiator of this development only in case of successful implementation of social coercion mechanisms. The condition for this is social integration: preservation and expansion of ties between human beings, counteraction to the fragmentation of society.
Keywords:
intelligence, cognitive technologies, inalienable function, goals, society, culture, stages of development, civilization, social mechanisms, compulsion to consume
Reference:
Barinov N.N..
Marxism-Leninism and Christianity: Classes and Class Struggle
// Philosophy and Culture.
2022. ¹ 11.
P. 30-74.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2022.11.39225 EDN: JEQNOO URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=39225
Abstract:
This article analyzes the compatibility of the theory and practice of Marxism-Leninism and Orthodox Christianity in relation to the class division of society and class struggle. The significance of the study is due to the controversy (often acute) on this issue, which is directly related to the social structure. The article provides a historical and theological analysis of the topic under study on the basis of a critical study of the works of the founders of Marxism-Leninism, their closest associates, historical documents on this issue, as well as historical and theological works. This article attempts to present a systematic analysis of the subject under study. It examines the relationship between the teachings of Orthodox Christianity and Marxism-Leninism about classes and class struggle, as well as their application in practice, and appeals to opponents. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that some documents are analyzed for the first time in connection with the issue under study. Also, in more detail and systematically, in relation to the available works, the analysis of the relationship between the teachings of Orthodox Christianity and Marxism-Leninism is carried out. The purpose of the work is to study historical documents, as well as historical and philosophical works on this topic. The article concludes that Marxism-Leninism is directly opposed to Christianity in the issue of attitude to the classes of society and the class struggle. In the course of historical development, the intensity of the class struggle changed, but not according to Marxism-Leninism, but depended on the state of morality, religiosity, the development of new trends in the social, scientific and technological development of mankind. A Christian understanding of the essence of the state can provide the basis for the national idea of Russia.
Keywords:
Christian anthropology, differentiation of income of the population, Church, dialectical materialism, class struggle, morality, Marxism-Leninism, christianity, orthodoxy, the essence of the state
Reference:
Popov E.A..
Meaningless labor in the concept of David Graeber
// Philosophy and Culture.
2021. ¹ 8.
P. 36-44.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2021.8.36451 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=36451
Abstract:
David Graeber (1961–2020) is a former professor at the London School of Economics, sociologist, and social anthropologist, prominent thinker of modernity; in the decades ahead, his views and social ideas will be highly demanded in social and humanistic knowledge. Assessment is given to his social theory of labor, which Graeber dedicated multiple books and articles, viewing labor as a futile phenomenon for the society and individual. He notes that meaningless labor in just a set of actions subordinated to some social force. The analysis of his ideas reveals several important vectors of modern social mentality: 1) in reconsideration of the role of labor in life of a person and society, the social frame of references (from the perspective of total sociality) is brought to the forefront, while the economic and political vectors of the assessment of labor assessment are shifted to the background; 2) meaningless labor becomes the social norm and generates the new system of values, for example, bureaucracy, administration, office, etc.; 3) gradually and with strong consolidation in society, labor becomes part of the active symbolic struggle (for example, for power) and symbolic exchange, which entails inequality between people and social commonalities. The article substantiates the heuristic nature of application of the concept of meaningless labor in characterizing the central ideas pf David Graeber, taking into account the fact that labor is viewed as an “imitation” of social value. This thesis is fundamental in comprehension of Graeber’s theory, as all his works contain a refrain on the need to reconsider the key social values (labor, money, finance, taxes, resources, and other), the nature of which is determined by both economic and sociocultural relations.
Keywords:
useless work, David Graeber, methodology of science, knowledge, universal value, social sciences, work, knowledge about society, society, globalization
Reference:
Zabneva E.I..
In pursuit of identity (relevance of the philosophy of N. Berdyaev)
// Philosophy and Culture.
2021. ¹ 4.
P. 29-34.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2021.4.36069 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=36069
Abstract:
This article discusses the topic of identity in the religious philosophy of N. Berdyaev. The author emphasizes the importance of this topic for the philosopher alongside the problematic of freedom and creativity. Emphasis is placed on the existential-religious traditions of Berdyaev’s philosophy, which views a particular individual in his relation to the society and history. According to Berdyaev, an individual is a puzzle not as an organism or social being, but as the identity; the spiritual aspect alone does not depend or determined by the society, which indicates its freedom, although not absolute. The conclusion is made on the relevance of philosophical reflections of N. Berdyaev for the modern state of social development. The author comes into line with the prophetic ideas of the philosopher on the approaching process of dehumanization in spheres of cultural and social life, and namely, dehumanization of moral consciousness. A human fades out as an integral, internally centered, spiritually focused being, who retains cohesion and unity. The author is forced to acknowledge the transformation of moral and ethical values of society, loss of innate thinking, increasing dependence on popular culture and consumer ideology, undermined faith in the future and self-confidence.
Keywords:
society, anthropologism, humanism, spiritual freedom, Nikolai Berdyaev, personality, human, history, culture, values
Reference:
Minnullina E.B..
Postmodernism: between the subject and absolutely external
// Philosophy and Culture.
2020. ¹ 4.
P. 1-10.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2020.4.31842 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=31842
Abstract:
The subject of this research is the contours of philosophical reasoning on the authenticity of human existence from the perspective of postmodernism. Comparison is conducted on interpretations of subjectivity in different philosophical discourses. The article examines the postmodern stage as an inversion of values and traditions of modernism and postmodernism in the context of new realities of the digital virtualized society. The author reviews the postmodern inter-worldliness of a subject and externalized selfness of a human, who on the one hand seeks self-identification, and om the other – avoids it, falling under the sway of symbolic identity, determined by the social institutions, norms and standards. Research methodology is based on the historical-philosophical approach, phenomenology of social, existential analytics and object-oriented ontology. A conclusion is made that the situation of s postmodern human is reflected in transition from the idea of diluting metanarrative to ethical universalism, from the regression of the philosophy of identity to object-oriented ontology, from skepticism to sincerity, from ironic sensibility of postmodernism to aesthetic experiencing of the tragic, from the power of text to metaphoric access to reality.
Keywords:
decentration, the external, Graham Harman, Gille Deleuze, neo-romanticism, object-oriented ontology, subject, metamodernism, human being, post-postmodernism
Reference:
Guseva A.A..
Once again about the national idiom (to the question on the historical form of Philhellenic tradition)
// Philosophy and Culture.
2019. ¹ 11.
P. 37-45.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2019.11.31567 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=31567
Abstract:
The subject of this research is the Philhellenic tradition as a possible form of history. Philhellenic discourse is structured as a complex correlation between national and universal. “Greece” as topos becomes an important stage of historical narrative, through which the gnoseological gap leads to the beginning of history and identification of human with universal. Philhellenic tradition implies particular interest to writing that is viewed through the prism of history. Jacques Derrida’s concept of writing helps interpreting the early Philhellenic texts (Chernorizets Hrabar “On The Letters”), which become the subject of the philosophy of history. Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s concept of language is viewed as a contrasting example. The scientific novelty of which work consists in the following: Philhellenic discourse, which contains the problematic of national and universal, begins with writing; the narrative on the emergence of alphabet, written by Chernorizets Hrabar as a historical treatise, flows from the field of the history of language to the field of the theology of language, namely Christ-centered. The national idiom, aligning with the Greek form, strives to see the whole, since it is impossible to reach the source by expressing everything, but not becoming universal. This generates the lust for “Hellenism” in the texts of Philhellenic tradition; and here are the roots of hierotopic, which allows the Philhellenic discourse to become the universal form of modern history.
Keywords:
writing, Jacques Derrida, historical consciousness, historical form, hierotopia, narrative, the national and the universal, Chernorizets Khrabr, grecophile tradition, Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Reference:
Rostova N.N..
Anthropological meaning of a sacrifice: between pragmatics and apophaticism
// Philosophy and Culture.
2017. ¹ 3.
P. 27-38.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2017.3.19371 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=19371
Abstract:
This article examines the phenomenon of sacrifice from the perspective of philosophical anthropology. The author highlights two main lines in the sacrifice theories: pragmatics of a sacrifice and apophaticism of a sacrifice. The pragmatics of a sacrifice includes the theory that reveal its practical positive sense, namely: social, biological, economic, psychological, and political. The apophaticism of a sacrifice pertains to its anthropological perspective that suggests referring to an invisible side of the world. Analyzing both strategies, the author answers to the questions about the meaning of sacrificing, correlation between faith and ritual, gift and sacrifice, as well as disappearance of blood sacrifices. The work leans on the philosophical-anthropological methods, in other words, accepts the message that a person is not an element of population, which he seems to be prior to biology, not an element of society, which he is for sociology, but rather a free creature that is not determined from without. In the author’s opinion, the phenomenon of sacrifice lies in the foundation of anthropogenesis and sociogenesis. The conclusion is made that the ritual of sacrificing is the cornerstone of the anthropological structure set by the cult. A blood sacrifice represents the point of the primary interdiction that constitutes consciousness.
Keywords:
Eucharist, Religion, Cult, Mystery, Ritual, Consciousness, Anthropology, Exchange, Gift, Sacrifice
Reference:
Akimova M.A..
“What is human?” The experience of actualization of metaphysical aspect of interrogation
// Philosophy and Culture.
2016. ¹ 11.
P. 1524-1533.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2016.11.68353 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=68353
Abstract:
The solution of the question “what is human” was not a trivial task for the philosophy. But outside the philosophical context, nontriviality of the aforementioned question manifests at the stage of perception of the essence of interrogation, particularly as a result of the inherent specificity of formulation. The presented question in essence is an abstract interrogation about the “abstract-universal”, the idea of which until today does not have an unambiguous and generally recognized definition. The article analyzes separate aspects of the problematic of search for the answer to one of the fundamental philosophical questions of modernity – “what is human?” The author attempts to actualize the philosophical-anthropological discourse in the part of metaphysical dimension of human nature. During the course of conceptualization of the narrative of the Holy Scripture, we can trace the foundation of the alternative vector in determination of the essence “human”. The original approach towards reading the text of the Holy Scripture serves as the impulse for actualization of the metaphysical aspect of the scientific discourse regarding the “problem of human”. The notion of “possibility” in the presented by the author interpretation, is able to perform the functions of the connecting link between the basic concepts of such scientific disciplines as philosophy, sociology, political science, etc.
Keywords:
God-likeness, Creation, Creation, “Human in general”, Human, Individual, Human essence, Ontology, Possibility, Holy Scripture
Reference:
Ponochevnaya I.D..
Paul Kurtz and the Philosophical Critique of Secular Humanism
// Philosophy and Culture.
2015. ¹ 4.
P. 524-532.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2015.4.66463 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=66463
Abstract:
The article explores the attitude of Paul Kurtz (1925-2012), who is considered by many to be the father of the secular humanist movement, towards philosophical critique of the scientific methodology and humanistic values. The author analyzes Paul Kurtz’ understanding and interpretation of the works of such philosophers as Søren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and his counter-arguments used against the following concepts: radical subjectivism, irrationalism, anti-humanism and philosophical pessimism. In her research Ponochevnaya has used the methods that are usually used in humanitarian disciplines. These methods include the comparative historical, conceptual problematic, classification and system-forming methods. The scientific novelty of the research is caused by the fact that for the first time in the academic literature the researcher conducts a fundamental analysis of Paul Kurtz' views on the key issues of existential and post-modern philosophy. The main conclusion of the research is the definition of ideological contradictions between humanistic and pragmatistic traditions, on the one hand, and philosophy of existentialism and philosophy of French post-modernism, on the other hand.
Keywords:
subjectivism, anti-humanism, Martin Heidegger, Soren Kierkegaard, Paul Kurtz, secular humanism, postmodernism, pragmatism, anthropology, irrationalism
Reference:
Koptseva, N. P., Kistova, A. V..
Construction of Ethnocultural and National Identity as a Philosophical Problem
// Philosophy and Culture.
2015. ¹ 1.
P. 12-19.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2015.1.66106 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=66106
Abstract:
In their article Koptseva and Kistova have touched upon the following topics and issues: Russian ethnocultural
and national identities, mechanisms of construction of national identity, basic approaches to social construction of
ethnic and national identity including concepts offered by Franz Boas, Ernest Gellner, Wilhelm Muhlman, Sergey Shirokogorov,
Lev Gumilev and other philosophers, importance of the ethnographic approach and ‘interpretative hermeneutics’
of Wilhelm Dilthey for philosophical construction of Russian national identity, mechanisms of transformation
of ethnocultural identity into national identity, representative cultural texts containing codes, signs and symbols that
may initiative the processes of formation of Russian national identity when being perceived by a recipient, analysis
of categories and concepts, ethnographic approach, Wilhelm Dilthey’s ‘interpretative hermeneutics’, integrative
methodological strategy, Peter Berger’s and Thomas Luckmann’s theory of social construction and concepts of the
symbolic production of ethnicity offered by Fredrik Barth, V. S. Malakhov and V. A. Tishkov. The authors have analyzed
and classified the basic approaches to social construction of ethnocultural and national identity and offer their own
integrative methodological strategy that combines the ethnographic approach and Wilhelm Dilthey’s ‘interpretative
hermeneutics’. The authors have also described some mechanisms of construction of Russian national identity by the
means of transformation of ethnocultural identity and proven the role of representative cultural texts in the process
of formation of Russian national identity.
Keywords:
philosophy, ethnocultural identity, general national identity, social construction, ethnographic approach, ‘interpretative hermeneutics’, Wilhelm Dilthey, mechanisms of social construction, cultural texts, methodological strategy.
Reference:
Danielian, N. V..
The Ideas of Gender and Post-Humanism in Russian Philosophy and Socio-Scientific Literature
// Philosophy and Culture.
2014. ¹ 9.
P. 1248-1256.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2014.9.65486 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=65486
Abstract:
The author of the article analyzes various approaches to the gender and post-humanism issues in Russian philosophy
and socio-scientific literature. According to the author, the main reason of the appearance of such researches is both the fundamental
changes that have taken place in the Russian society and development of the humanities which create the need in
viewing the aforesaid issues from the point of view of social science and philosophy. The author of the article describes the five
stages of formation and development of this scientific discipline in Russia. This allows to better understand the main tasks of
Russian gender researches at different stages of their development. The main research methods used by the author include the
comparative and dialectic methods as well as the ideas and principles of the systems approach. The author makes an assumption
that the post-humanism concept appeared in Russian science at the fifth stage of the development of gender researches
as a result of the Russian society entering the age of universal informatization and globalization processes. The present article
is focused on the ideas of Russian cosmists which were continued in Russian trans-humanism. According to the author of the
article, one of the main dangers of the modern society is the deindividuation of human and the blurring of distinctions between
man and woman. Nanotechnologies are seen as a bright example and proof of the aforesaid statement. The results of the
author’s analysis show that gender issues are now losing its importance and often ignored by researchers. The post-humanism
ideas are aimed at existence beyond humanism, in other words, human body falls outside personality and gender. For this
reason, the author offers a new concept of creating ‘post-humanist’ gender relations.
Keywords:
gender research, post-humanism, trans-humanist movement, cosmism, nanotechnologies, network society, post-human, social constructivism, natural epistemology, society.
Reference:
Mamedov, N. M., Mansurova, S. E..
The Nature and Essence of Human
// Philosophy and Culture.
2014. ¹ 8.
P. 1092-1103.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2014.8.65392 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=65392
Abstract:
The authors of the article analyze meanings and definitions of the terms ‘human nature’ and ‘human essence’
and grounds for their development, generalization and convergence taking into account modern genetic,
anthropological and cultural discoveries. Historically, differentiation of these two concepts was caused by the formation
of the ‘nature and culture’ opposition during the Early Modern Period when it was believed that expansion of
the cultural sphereled to narrowing of the sphere of nature and cultural degradation, on the contrary, resulted in
the revival of nature. The authors of the article show to what degree the aforesaid conclusion can be related to the
human himself and what grounds there are for creating the ‘savage (animal) and civilized human’ opposition. The
article is based on philosophical and general scientific principles of monism and development, integrity and consistency,
concepts of historicism, evolutionism and self-organization. The discovered contradiction between rather conservative
human nature and his free and creative ‘essence’ dictates the discourse about the manageable evolution of
human as an actor of self-development. Philosophical and anthropological terms ‘cultural adaptation’ and ‘cultural
evolution’ are described as a typological factor of human self-development. In fact, the authors describe the path to
creating a new humanism — the goal UNESCO has been actively calling the world community for.
Keywords:
human nature, human essence, generic human, individual, personality, culture, human ecology, post-human history, humanism, trans-humanism.
Reference:
Konson, G. R..
The Grand Inquisitor as the Ideologist of Murder Supported by the Catholic Church
// Philosophy and Culture.
2014. ¹ 5.
P. 666-675.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2014.5.64923 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=64923
Abstract:
The subject under review is the ideology of the Grand Inquisitor, the main character of The Great Inquisitor
story told by Ivan Karamazov. In this story the elderly Jesuit criticizes Jesus’ self-sacrifice for the sake of the freedom of
humanity and offers the only alternative to the concept of state power and violence that came after Christ’s teaching.
This alternative, in fact, deifies the three powers: authority, miracle and mystery. The approach chosen by the author
of the article allows to specify peculiarities of Dostoevsky’s fundamental concept of the image of the Grand Inquisitor
that involves meta-demonization of the Grand Inquisitor’s image.
The research method used by the author integrates a few types of analysis including ethical and philosophical analysis,
psychological analysis, literary analysis and comparative analysis. Combination of these methods allows to recode
the demoniac symbols in the image of the Catholic power.
The scientific novelty of the research is in the author’s philosopheme according to which the Grand Inquisitor, on
one hand, is like a devil hunting for human souls but, on the other hand, he differs from the devil because in his
dreams about the unlimited power he without any remorse sees a global ‘happy’ society where Jesus Christ was not
needed. This is the cynicism of the universal level and this is why the Jesuit is even more dangerous than the devil
because the former represent the all-destroying Ahrimanic power. As a result of his research, the author concludes
that the Grand Inquisitor represent the phenomenon of catastrophism because for an Orthodox person religion
without Christ is a nonsense and absurdity. For Russia the image of God has always been the measure of spirituality
and moral purity.
Keywords:
God, Christ, church, Catholicism, the Grand Inquisitor, human, devil, temptation, freedom, religion and moral, authority, mystery, power and violence.
Reference:
Kutyrev, V. A., Nilogov, A S..
Proet ContraInnovations: For Preservation of Anthropomorphic Realization of Possible Worlds
// Philosophy and Culture.
2014. ¹ 2.
P. 180-189.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2014.2.63920 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=63920
Abstract:
This article is written in the form of a dialogue and continues the interview of Vladimir Kutyrev, the author
of the book ‘Time Mortido’, taken by Aleksey Nilogov. The main topic of their interview was the question about
manageability of the progress and the interview was published in the NB: Philosophical Researches Journal in 2013. The
interview has developed into a conversation. The conversation evolved around the hidden yet sharp dispute between
the ‘progressor’ and ‘conservator’. Interlocutors give different and often contrary evaluations of the prospects of the
humankind and opinions on the matter. They talk about the tendency towards replacement of everything alive and
natural with the technological and artificial. Theauthortouchesuponthe relation between being and nothing, postmodernistic
transformation of human into ‘something else’, elimination of the borders between genders and creation
of weak (‘thinking’) and strong (‘programmable’) zombies. The author of the book is completely against the boundless
expansion of innovative, i.e. post-human technologies and the idea of human im-provement. He tries to prove that the
main goal of a modern human should be the preservation of his civilization in the anthropomorphous context. Society
where consumption takes the place of production and the world are depicted as the global trading center.
Keywords:
being, nothing, trans-humanism, zombie, Derrida, programming, anti-language, homosexuality, selfdestruction, conservatism.
Reference:
Gorelova, T. A., Deklerk, I. V..
Communication In Terms of Human Needs
// Philosophy and Culture.
2014. ¹ 1.
P. 20-30.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2014.1.63768 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=63768
Abstract:
The authors of the article study the process of communication from the point of view of philosophical
anthropology. Based on this approach, communication is viewed as an expression of not only social but also
existential human nature because this approach allows to determine man’s relations with the world and the Other
(and society), God and so on. In this regard the concept of Self and Other acquires a special status, too. In case both
the transmitting and receiving parties are active, the inter-subjective communication is created. Inter-subjective
communication has special features such as the dialogic interaction, inter-subjectivity, communication as a process
of confluence of the message, information and understanding and the presence of individuals. The authors also view
the structure of inter-subjective communication based on the concept of basic needs introduced by Abraham Maslow.
The authors suggest a six-level structure consisting of the following levels: primitive, traditionally oriented, socially
standard, progressively synthesizing, spiritual and spiritually modifying types of communication. Developing mass media and so called «network society» make a significant impact on the structure of the communication process.
It brings in the element of «untrue communication» and results in the effect that can be called «archaic style of
communication» when the primitive forms of communication such as mass, social, family, domestic, erotic forms of
inter-subjective communication become dominating and information is mythologized or acquires a mystic content.
Keywords:
communication, need, subject, society, Self and Other, virtuality, anthropology, meta-need, spirituality.
Reference:
Gorelov, A. A..
Lev Tolstoy’s Novel ‘Resurrection’ and the Problem of Ethic Choice
// Philosophy and Culture.
2013. ¹ 9.
P. 1233-1243.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2013.9.63151 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=63151
Abstract:
The author of the article compares the reemergence of the main hero in ‘Resurrection’ with the
‘spiritual rebirth’ of Lev Tolstoy himself as well as with the philosophical interpretation of the ‘borderline
situations’ represented by existentialists. The author makes a conclusion that Tolstoy’s hero behaves the same
way as a man in a borderline situation described by existentialists. Noteworthy that Tolstoy did not appeal
to existentialists and such likeness is caused by objective processes ongoing in a man’s inner world. Generally
speaking, the process of ethic choice (or Tolstoy’s ‘spiritual rebirth’) consists of the following stages: decisive
affect, borderline situation, conviction, despair, awareness of one’s possibility to make an ethic choice, ethic
choice (which, being the point of bifurcation, can lead to three options: suicide, return to previous lifestyle
and start of a new life), spiritual rebirth, crucifixion and resurrection. The process described by the author
of the article is based on the combination of ideas presented by Soren Kierkegaard (‘either/or’), Karl Jaspers
(‘borderline situation’) and Lev Tolstoy (‘confession’ and ‘resurrection’).
Keywords:
Tolstoy, human, penance, despair, awareness, resolution, ethics, choice, crucifixion, resurrection.
Reference:
Bovykin, V. I..
Philosophy of Artificial Intellect: Terminology and Methodology Issues
// Philosophy and Culture.
2012. ¹ 8.
P. 96-105.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2012.8.61257 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=61257
Abstract:
The article provides a unique opportunity to solve the issue of creating artificial intellect not in
technological and non-technological spheres but from the point of view of transformations of natural forms
of the intellect, in particular, collective thinking. The author postulates principal restrictions of creative
opportunities of human in the sphere f creating new objects and describes experience of creating artificial
intellect in the sphere of administration.
Keywords:
philosophy, methodology, consciousness, artificial, intellect, transformation, administrative, technology, machine, intellect.
Reference:
Dyachenko, I. Yu..
The Roerich Pact and the Program of Defense of Cultural Objects
// Philosophy and Culture.
2011. ¹ 8.
P. 126-136.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2011.8.58549 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=58549
Abstract:
It is the first time in scientific literature that we study the history of the Roerich Pact on preservation
of cultural objects and the program of its implementation ref lected in N. K. Roerich’s works during
1910-1930. The issue of the defense of cultural objects is now becoming even more relevant which is also conditioned
by the socio-cultural situation both in our country and all over the world. The author of the article
describes t he main t argets of t he Roerich program implemented by t he world community as well as s ummarizes
scientific works related to N. K. Roerich’s activities in the sphere of protection of cultural objects. The
results of the study can be very useful for salvation of topical questions related to protection of monuments
of the world civilization at different levels. Factual material can be also the ground for further researches on
this topic, creation of generalized works on the theory, history and practice of defense of cultural objects as
well as cultural history.
Keywords:
cultural studies, pact, culture, legacy, ethics, evolution, up-bringing, environmental studies, peacekeeping, community.
Reference:
Guseva, A. A..
Philosophical Form of an Idiom
// Philosophy and Culture.
2011. ¹ 6.
P. 73-86.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2011.6.58436 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=58436
Abstract:
Idiom is viewed as an interaction between the two natures and the two languages, - everyday
and metaphoric languages. The author shows the role of a religious philosophy principle of communicatio
idiomatum, due to which the idiom is happened to be at the crossing of anthropology, ethics, gnoseology and
ontology. In the context of idiom formation the author also casts light on the topic of the inner form (Plotin,
Wilhem von Humboldt, Shpet, Potebnya, Bibikhin). Therefore, the idiom is not quite a linguistic, but philosophical
phenomena.
Keywords:
philosophy, communicatio idiomatum, idiom, inner form, inner grammar, trope, metaphor, term formation.
Reference:
Kutyrev, V. A..
Reconstruction of Human (Part 2, final)
// Philosophy and Culture.
2010. ¹ 3.
P. 19-34.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2010.3.57222 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=57222
Abstract:
We live in the epoch of human engineering turning into an ‘engineering’ human. Undoubtedly, such Human has a certain future which may last for several centuries. ‘Traditional’ or ‘historical’ human has all his future in the past. He has only eternity. Conservative revolution under the banner of Archaeo Avantgarde is the main business of the day at the 21st century. All the rest is the ‘business of the night’. Thus shall we live further.
Keywords:
philosophy, human, personality, God, nature, subject, future, individual, engineering, metaphysics
Reference:
Balagushkin, E. G..
Morphology of Mysticism. Article 2
// Philosophy and Culture.
2010. ¹ 1.
P. 61-66.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2010.1.57175 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=57175
Abstract:
The thesis of ‘uniform’ mysticism ignores the forms typical for paganism and developed religions. Even though mysticism still has the same nature and origin, it definitely varies greatly in forms and structures. The author defined the five ‘primary’ structures of mysticism (archetypes): unity with God, Godsend, transcendental and immanent mystical determinations and the bipolar immanent and transcendental mystical bond. According to the author, primary configurations of the mystical bond usually join in structural complexes.
Keywords:
philosophy, mysticism, complex, morphology, sacred, structure, archetype, transcendental, immanent
Reference:
Kutyrev, V. A..
How and Where the Humanitarian Paradigm Shifts?
// Philosophy and Culture.
2009. ¹ 10.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2009.10.56981 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=56981
Abstract:
Review: the crisis in humanism has reached the stage when philosophers deny human nature and human spiritual and physical identity. The stage is also known as ‘trans humanism’. The author analyzed attempts to modify the humanitarian paradigm ‘in draft’. All of them, however, are related to the same idea of substituting people by ‘transhumans’. In the second part of the article the author discussed the ideas of poliontism and the turn in traditional phenomenology of philosophy. According to the author, those ideas could help to keep the traditional Homo vitae sapiens
Keywords:
humanism, trans-humanism, archeo avant-gardism, acmeology, turn in traditional phenomenology
Reference:
Rudneva, E. G..
The Problem of Man in the Philosophy of A.J. Ayer
// Philosophy and Culture.
2009. ¹ 8.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2009.8.56905 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=56905
Abstract:
Review: the name of the British philosopher Alfred J.Ayer (1910-1989), an outstanding representative of neopositivism, is well known in Russia. But whereas his views on epistemological
problems are given enough attention, his philosophic and anthropological ideas have been less known.
Review: the name of the British philosopher Alfred J.Ayer (1910-1989), an outstanding representative of neopositivism, is well known in Russia. But whereas his views on epistemological
problems are given enough attention, his philosophic and anthropological ideas have been less known.
Reference:
Mikhailova, E. E..
Russian positive philosophy on the way to understanding human being, his culture and his history
// Philosophy and Culture.
2009. ¹ 7.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2009.7.56784 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=56784
Abstract:
Ideas of Russian philosophers about the role of “the human” in historical process and Russian history never get too old. Russian society needs to understand that creation of history includes creation of the “new human” as well. This is what makes creation of history possible and this is the essential condition for successful changes in modern world.
Keywords:
philosophy, positivism (positive philosophy), history, Russian idea, cultural inheritance, human being, national identification, scientism, culture.
Reference:
Toropygina, M.V..
Globalization and the Russian institution of family.
// Philosophy and Culture.
2008. ¹ 7.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2008.7.55886 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=55886
Reference:
EGOROVA, I.V..
THE PROBLEM OF AN UNIQUE INDIVIDUAL
// Philosophy and Culture.
2008. ¹ 1.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2008.1.55620 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=55620
Abstract:
The problem of the unique individual seems clear to most philosophers: there is no being in the world, which could be compared to the Adam’s descent. Everybody says so. Everybody says that every person is unique and special. However, this unique quality of an individual becomes a problem, once we have to deal with non-standard deviant behavior and thinking…