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Abstract: The article is devoted to the conception of ‘being’ as a philosophical category. The author compares the concepts of ‘being’ and ‘freedom’. According to the author, being is the highest point of personal freedom and the goal we all strive for

Keywords: philosophy, history of philosophy, philosophical anthropology, being, freedom

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Abstract: The article reconstructs the project of philosophical anthroplogy by Pavel Florensky. The author considers such aspects of human nature as corporeity, sex, difference between face, image and cover as well as difference between body, conscience and organism. Analyzing Florensky’s theory of corporeity the author draws a parallel between Florensky’s theory and Gilles Deleuze’s and ‘Russian cosmists’ philosophies. Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy is shown as very similar to the revelations of the Russian philosophy

Keywords: philosophy, body, conscience, Florenksy, Deleuze, Russian cosmism, Ukhtomsky, projection of organs, body without organs, face

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Abstract: The article considers the inter-related processes of globalization of knowledge and formation of the global knowledge. The authors describe the evolutionary approach to global studies (in opposition to historical approach). According to the authors, studies of globalization cover different global processes and systems including global natural processes, globalization and global problems. Formation of global knowledge and global transformations in science are viewed from the point of view of transfer to sustainable development and formation of the sphere of mind

Keywords: philosophy, globalization, globalization of knowledge, global studies, global knowledge, global processes, global evolutionism, historical global studies, noosphere, noospheric science, society of knowledge, sustainable development, evolutionary global st

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Abstract: The article is devoted to the study of phenomena of fear, suffering, hope, love and their role in the existential sphere of a person. Special attention is paid at the positive meaning of fear and suffering as determinants which make human realize the true goal of his existence. Love and hope are viewed as the greatest values of life and ways to overcome loneliness in the difficult epoch of the developing civilization

Keywords: philosophy, fear, suffering, hope, love, existentialism, feeling, existence

Abstract: The article is devoted to N. N. Strakhov’s philosophy of history, - one of the most studies topics in the history of the Russian thought. The author of the article assumes that it is ossible to study the prerequisites of Strakhov’s philosophy of history addressing to his ‘archive of the epoch’ (T. G. Schedrin’s term), - actual conversations of Strakhov with his contemporaries. As the basis of Strakhov’s philosophy of history the author views the united nature of values

Keywords: philosophy, philosophy of history, understanding from the point of history, freethinking, self-abasement, orientation at the second person, free conservatism

Abstract: The article claims that formation f the Russian civil nation is one of the directions of consolidation of the Russian society. Russian ethnical culture is viewed as the basics of Russian culture and Russian nation. It is supposed that the openness of the Russian personality and Russian culture enable representatives of other ethnos both to join them and to participate in their development

Keywords: cultural studies, society, nation, ethnos, culture, Russian, consolidation, assimilation, multi-culturalism

Abstract: The author analyzes the role and possibilities of auto-communication in activity of a learning subject of modern epistemology included in the discourse. As an example, the author views the opportunities of inversive process of meaning formation. It is proved that the discourse is initially perceived as intra personal communication. The article is mostly devoted to the idea of extra linguistic processes in learning activity of an individual

Keywords: philosophy, auto communication, inner speech, discourse, modern epistemology, formation of meaning, communicative activity

Abstract: The article considers the ontological grounds of communication through music from the point of view of time and space continuum as a social and cultural phenomenon and archetype of corporeity as a hidden gesture and plastic nature of musical phenomenon

Keywords: cultural studies, space, time, communication through music, hermeneutics, archetype, corporeity, ornamented, plasticization, meaning, understanding, model, ceremony of a concert, context

Abstract: The article shows that modern philosophy is not interested in origins of being or human any more. Now modern philosophy is starting to address the limits of the possible where cognition turns into the basics of human nature. The author discusses the idea that the thought comes before the word, from one hand, and it is the basis of silence, on the other hand. This is why it can be said that the thought is in ‘pre-word’ and ‘in the word’ at the same time. When it is in the pre-word, the thought does not have any full or complete meaning and it is paradoxical. This is why the thought is mysterious as silence itself

Keywords: philosophy, human, silence, image, literal, pause, thought, naivety

Abstract: There is quite a number of works devoted to the symbol. Symbol is studied from all points of view. Philosophers speak of the symbol as a cognitive term and they discuss the ontogenesis of the symbol, its difference from a sign, hermeneutics of a symbol and symbolic nature of culture. However, very rare symbol is viewed as an important category of philosophical anthropology. Meanwhile, many anthropological issues cannot be considered without addressing to philosophical understanding of human

Keywords: philosophy, culture, human, symbolic forms, ontogenesis of a symbol, sign, function, myth, feeling

Abstract: The article views one of the central problems of N. Berdyaev’s philosophy of creativity. Berdyaev himself called it ‘the tragic failure’ of a creative act and tragedy of creativity. The author shows the importance and inevitability of this problem of the philosopher’s work. The author also analyzes one of the main contradictions of a creative process (between intention and its practical realization) which leads to the tragedy mentioned above

Keywords: philosophy, creativity, art, culture, transcendence, intention, realization, objectivization, incompliance, tragedy of creativity

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Abstract: The article considers the ethical views of Guo Xi, - famous Chinese landscape painter of the 11th century. Special attention is paid at Guo Xi’s theory of the ‘three spaces’, - the three types of composition of landscapes based on the ideas of Taoist natural philosophy, summary of the heritage by landscape masters (both predecessors and contemporaries) and thoughts of the author’s own experience in landscape painting. The study covers philosophy, esthetics and art work

Keywords: philosophy, cultural studies, Guo Xi, Song, esthetics, landscape, painting, space, nature, Tao, master, writing

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Abstract: This is the material from the round table ‘Being and Conscience’ held at St. Petersburg Humanitarian University of Professional Unions in November 2009. The participants of the round table discussed very topical issues of relationship between being and conscience, creation of the national idea, influence of government, religion and other social institutions and mass media on formation of cultural identity of the Russian people

Keywords: philosophy, politics, being, conscience, Russia, culture, round table

Abstract: The review is devoted to the history of development of medicine and medical ethics during different epochs: from Antique times until now. The article also analyzes the views of the authors on questions of philosophical conceptions of medical service taking into account the newest tendencies in bio technologies and bio ethics. The article also covers the problem of responsibility for violation of ethical norms of a medical worker as well as for violation of the human rights for protection of dignity, health and life

Keywords: philosophy, medicine, ethics, law, dignity, human, bio ethics, health, culture, euthanasia