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Abstract: Editor-in-chief’s column is devoted to the phenomenon of desacralization of governance. According to the author, this process started already in the 18th century and it is growing especially dangerous nowadays.

Keywords: philosophy, culture, history, governance desacralization, person, power.

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Abstract: This study pays attention at what Plato said, which creates the path to understanding what Plato meant but did not say. If we understand that, it will allow us to see Plato’s thoughts as if we were talking to him. This is what the author is aimed at — to understand Plato’s thoughts in a dialogue.

Keywords: philosophy, Plato, Heidegger, ontology, Timaeus, myth, logos, demiurge, cosmos, unity.

Abstract: Based on the researches of a number of philosophers, the author of the article forms and develops the concept of a double understanding of time. The article also touches upon the problem of the relation between the inner (subjective) and objective (physical) time. The author studies the interaction between these two concepts and defines differences and similarities between these phenomena. The author also shares his ideas regarding a human choosing a certain attitude towards the phenomenon of time.

Keywords: philosophy, time, existential time, physical time, duration, interval, homogeneity, variability, movement, consciousness.

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Abstract: In a commonplace sense of a Russian society, psychiatry is associated with the shelter of hopelessly sick and socially rejected people, while this branch of medicine becomes especially topical under stressful conditions of transfer of humankind to information-based civilization. Philosophical and cultural understanding of a dramatic situation of a mental health is oriented at a drastic change of infantile attitudes of many people towards their mental health and psychiatry as a mean of prevention and treatment of many brain diseases as well as pathological tendencies of personal evolution.

Keywords: philosophy, culture, psyche, psychic health, psychiatry, psychosomatics, medicine, informatization, brains, stress, pathology.

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Abstract: in this paper we study the approach to the status of women in the civilizations of East and West with the social and philosophical point of view. The author cites studies comparing western and eastern scholars in this field and examines the specific features of the problem of \"Woman and Society\" in the East and West.

Keywords: cultural studies, the status of men, East, West, gender, social philosophy, human motives, the love of antiquity and modernity.

Abstract: The article is devoted to axiological grounds of justice. In order to understand axiological aspects and paradigms better, the author of the article describes formation of justice as a value and defines why it is included in the hierarchy of values. The author also analyzes and classifies the concept of justice and its conventional value in different epochs and types of culture, interprets the value of justice for a modern human and defines the main problems of interpretation of axiological grounds of justice.

Keywords: philosophy, justice, axiological, grounds, ideal, spiritual, value, idea, modern, human.

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Abstract: The article is devoted to the problem of philosophical definition of media as a condition for existence of a modern human. Sources of modern ontological views on media are described based on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology. Media is defined as an ontological way of involving human into the world. The author of the article also explains the status of media as an item and as a medial modality of the world perception.

Keywords: philosophy, ontologization, media, mediality, existence-in-the-world, phenomenal body, perception field, corporality, way of perception, environment.

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Abstract: The purpose of the article is to analyze the sources of the evil. It is confined only to magic practice. The author studies rich philosophical and anthropological materials and provides his own ethnographic data collected at the Caucasus, Middle Asia, central regions of Russia and abroad. Special attention is paid at the concepts of evil magic introduced by such scientists from Edward Tailor to Paul Ricceur. The purpose of the study is to conduct a hermeneutic analysis of the evil as a human existential. Hierarchy of philosophical and anthropological reconstruction allowed a shift from higher levels of structuring of a society to the basic levels of domestication of time where the sources of the fear, evil and magic aggression were revealed. As a result, the evil loses its stable ontological grounds and is viewed as a social and cultural reduction which arises when the resources are limited.

Keywords: philosophy, evil, the good, anthropology, thesaurus, creativity, anthropological ability, magic, time, sacral.

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Abstract: There is quite a wide consensus that the semantic grounds of music are made up out of the subjective sphere, emotions and feelings of a person. But what exactly do we mean when we describe music as ‘jolly’ or ‘sad’ while music is not an alive creature? Powerful and original conception introduced by a British scientist Roger Scruton offers the following answer to this question. Emotive characteristics of music are very metaphoric, and these metaphors are ‘irremovable’; they are correlated not with the objective features of music but with a special state of mind which is not describable. Critical analysis of Scruton’s conception helps to make a conclusion about insufficiency and argumentativeness of provisions about the constructive role of metaphors in music perception and their correlation with the metal state described as the ‘recognition of expression’ by Scruton.

Keywords: philosophy, emotions, metaphor, expression, expressive features, Scruton, recognition of expression, moral sense, distinction between the sound and tone, emotive predicates.

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Abstract: These are editor’s congratulations devoted to Alexander Zapesotsky, oen of the leaders of the editorial board, professor, Doctor of Cultural Studies and rector of St. Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences on his electing as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Keywords: philosophy, culture, Alexander Zapesotsky, Russian Academy of Sciences, corresponding member.

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Abstract: The article is devoted to a number of works written by various authors such as Yakov Golosovker, Grigory Pomerants, Andrey Yurganov and others.

Keywords: philosophy, culture, history, publication, existence, subject, review.

Abstract: This the summary and the author’s response to L. V. Gomboeva’s book ‘Introduction to the Western Philosophy of Freedom’.

Keywords: philosophy, culture, freedom, western, Russian, philosophies.

Abstract: This is the summary and response to the two books written by Nikolsky, S. A. and Philimonov, V. P. and devoted to the issue of Russian world perception and the idea of Russian life and society I literature and philosophy.

Keywords: philosophy, culture, history, Russian, world perception, values, meaning, Russian, life, literature, classics.

Abstract: This is the press release of the First Russian Philosophical Forum held at All-Russian State Distance-Learning Institute of Finance and Economics and called ‘New Project of Development of Russian Civilization as a Historical Need: Philosophical Ideas and Conceptions’.

Keywords: philosophy, culture, forum, institute, project, development, Russian, civilization.