Abstract: The author studies the defi nition of ‘the beautiful’ and ‘the interesting’ in works by a famous philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Particularly, it is underlined that there is a certain need in considering ‘the interesting’ as a separate category in esthetics.

Keywords: philosophy, esthetics, the beautiful, the interesting, cogitation, will, mass culture

Abstract: The author turns to the topic of prognosis because detection of prognosis grounds for socio-natural dynamics along with attraction of potentials of eschatology, metaphysics, language, modern development concepts, ethics and nonlinear dynamics will allow to give a certain content to concrete prognosis and design technologies. Possession of such technologies for designing the future should be one of the main priorities for our country. It is the question of economic benefi t or national security. Based on the author, it is the question of our country’s survival. It resembles the Soviet times when passion of nuclear and space technologies had a crucial importance for existence and sustainable functioning of the USSR.

Keywords: philosophy, prediction (prognosis), socio-natural dynamics (noospheric attractor), socio-technological strategy, eschatology, metaphysics, causality, ethics, nonlinear dynamics, language.

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Abstract: The author of the article investigates the analysis of the notion of cause by Hume and Kant. Such analysis was connected with the necessity of philosophical foundation of scientifi c knowledge. The impossibility of experimental foundation of the notion of cause gave birth of Hume skepticism and Kant apriorism.

Keywords: philosophy, cause, scientifi c knowledge, experience, empiricism, perception, ideas, habit, skepticism, a priori

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Abstract: This article is an attempt to analyze the information culture phenomenon. The author describes different approaches to explanation of the essence of the ‘information’ and ‘culture’ universals. The authors share their views on the nature of this phenomenon and prove that it is effi cient to use a multidisciplinary approach when studying the problem of formation of a personal information culture.

Keywords: philosophy, information, culture, informatization, education, personality, technologies, society, activity, interaction

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Abstract: The author of the article views Henri Bergson’s philosophy as an actual negotiation of the Hegel Philosophy. Based on the author, Bergson’s philosophy directly or indirectly contribute to the development of philosophy in the 19th century. The concept of duration proposed by the French philosopher allowed to overcome the irrationality of the Hegel rationalism and to start moving to the new dimension of the metaphysical explanation of the world based on the conception of the process duration.

Keywords: philosophy, metaphysics, archetype, rationality, irrationality, Hegel, Bergson, science, positivism, contradiction

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Abstract: The article considers some aspects of the process of infl uence of ideology, social cultural values, standards of ethics and esthetics and etc. on the process of history reconstruction. It is noted that ideology infl uence is one of the most strongly marked and the most distorting the entire process and outcomes of the history reconstruction. The author insists on the thesis that the implicit form of basic cultural values and social norms is refl ected in reconstructive ‘historical knowledge’. Moreover, when the former changes, it makes the historical knowledge to change, too. As a result, any society would inevitably have its own history based on the values and norms generally accepted in this society. The author of the article also raises a question about moral and ethical responsibility of a historian for results of such reconstruction.

Keywords: philosophy, history reconstruction, historical knowledge, culture, axiological approach, objectivity, values, morals, ethics, esthetics

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Abstract: The evolutional analysis of the stereotypes of fear and anxiety in the History of Philosophy shows that in many philosophers’ works there have been attempts to learn the nature of fear and anxiety, to give them anthropological and ontological grounds, to classify the forms and kinds of fear, to demonstrate its connection with other mental states. The analysis of the social aspects of fear and anxiety as constituent elements of social behaviour and management has become an important feature of the philosophic theories.

Keywords: philosophy, fear, anxiety, human, anthropology, spirituality, emotions, rationalism, irrationalism, existentials

Abstract: The article analyzes the origins of art work projects and theories which appeared in the esthetics of the 20th century including the project of modernism and identifi ed themselves with conservative political priorities and, at times, directly with fascism. Unlike the point of view considering fascism as some political and cultural irrationality, this article shows that both political and esthetical characteristics of fascism have their digital logic. The article also describes social prerequisites of protofascistic esthetics in modern art.

Keywords: philosophy, aestheticization of politics, sovereignty, Georges Bataille, fascism, transgression, «homo sacer», political emancipation, modern art

Abstract: The article analyzes the basic issues discussed during the 18th International Congress on Esthetics held in Beijing (PRC). The author of the article defi nes the methodology of esthetical researches in the West and the East.

Keywords: philosophy, esthetics, esthetic education, nature, art, Confucianism, Taoism, religion, morals

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Abstract: The article is devoted to the interaction of visual and emotional perceptions and the role these forms of perceptions play when work of visual art is being created. The article has a theoretical and practical importance for artists and will be interesting for a wide audience of philosophy and art fans.

Keywords: philosophy, subject matter, object, intentionality, perception, the eye, the mind, art, image, fi ne arts

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Abstract: The article analyzes the philosophical grounds of the modern international law, their composition and dynamics of development. The author of the article conceives that the subject matter of the international law philosophy is conceptualization of philosophical ideas and principles forming the basis of international law and its science. Much attention is paid at possible perspectives of the international law philosophy in the ‘post-modernism’ situation.

Keywords: philosophy, globalization, law, postmodernism, paradigm, idea, politics, morals, peace, Hegelianism

Abstract: The article is devoted the constructs of the world view. The world view is logically interpreted as a notion or ‘idea of notion’ and shows the logic of rise from the abstract to the concrete. Based on the mentioned above methodology, the author logically draws out the constructs of the world view.

Keywords: philosophy, world view, concept, constructs of the world view, idea of notion, ontological aspect of the world view, ideological aspect of the world view, gnoseological aspect of the world view, methodological aspect of the world view, abstract and concrete