Abstract: Darwinism provides that the development of the living nature is based on fighting for survival and the natural selection. Since the human being is part of the living nature, he is also part of the natural selection system. As for the human body, it is undoubted. However, once we come to the sphere of social organization and spiritual life of people, there are trouble…

Abstract: We may speak of ethno-collective unconscious as an important element of the social behavior of an individual. It is the source of the formation of social and cultural goals and personal development. It regulates individual’s political and legal activities, and can be compared with the influence of the laws of the state. What is the collective unconscious of the Russian society like?

Abstract: The phylosophical situation of the last century was defined as an «anthropological Renaissance”. There was much interest to the problem of an individual, the rebirth of the anthropocentric scientific research paradigms, new ways to understand human nature… Was it really the anthropological boom, which became the basis for the current philosophical situation?

Abstract: It is currently considered that the method of functioning of the human mind is similar to the functioning of the computer. That is why computer models can reflect the way of human thinking as a whole, as information-based phenomenon. How reasonable is it? What do we miss out, if we accept this position? And what are the other means to understand the human mind and make our understanding more adequate?

Abstract: The study of historical past is important not only in order to attain new knowledge. This study is also the precondition for the development of modern social and cultural life. This article includes the analysis of philosophical aspects of historical reconstruction…

Abstract: This article provides that neither history, nor social philosophy predefine the laws of development of the society. They are no different from other sciences, which provide for unique non-repeating events and processes. The author thinks that the thought that history is aimed to formulate the laws, which the development of the society is meant to follow is wrong and does not fall within the modern understanding of historical study.

Abstract: Now most psychological articles or pedagogical handbooks on raising children clearly state that children are individuals and their individuality should not be oppressed. But what is the value of the “small person’s world” for us, grown – ups?

Abstract: As the author points out the modern scientific literature lacks the research on the birth of the modern scientific paradigm as a whole. The idea of this article is to show the birth of the modern scientific paradigm in various spheres of knowledge.

Abstract: The leading universalizing tendency of the development of culture in XX century is now changing into national and racial self-awareness, not only in Russia, but in many states. Due to this situation, there is a number of questions, raised in this article. How it is possible to gain national identification in the modern world? What are the modern forms of messianism? What is the alternative to the modern nationalism? These issues obviously lead us to culturology…

Abstract: It seems that the key request of the modern life of our time has to do with the personal growth. However, this term is mostly associated with social success. Everyone thinks that personal growth means competence, responsibility, activity, self-assurance. This is an ideal portrait of the hero of our time. And, just like any idea, it is rather far from reality. And under the mask of an ideal person, there may be a small person from a crowd…

Abstract: The power relations exist in any social system and in any human relations. The power is an aspect of all the relations among the people. That is why it is inevitable and neutral. It’s neither good, nor bad. The system of power includes everything and nothing is free from it. The problem of power for a long time have been the object of study of philosophers and psychologists…

Abstract: Axiological aspect of faith is one of the key elements of understanding of its role in human life and society. The faith includes the inner value register, which defines how a person perceives reality, and what is his attitude to it. This article by N.A. Kalyuzhnaya is devoted to the analysis of the axiological aspects of faith.