The aim of the article is to analyze the essence of spiritual tradition and its static and dynamic structure. The research methodology includes content and activity approaches, the former provided for the identification of the static, and the latter - the dynamic structure of the spiritual tradition. According to the content approach, spiritual tradition is a set of social qualities through which the self-identification of a citizen with their society and culture is expressed. The activity approach provided for the identification of the dynamic structure of spiritual tradition, including: the subject of tradition (personality), its object (spiritual culture) and the relationship between the subject and the object. Theoretically this will allow of deeper understanding of spiritual tradition in educational process, taking into account the trends of the world development, and practically - to form a social mechanism for rooting spiritual traditions at the state, social and personal levels. The article is aimed at students, graduate students and teachers of Liberal Arts colleges, centers of training in Humanities and advanced training courses.

The aim of the article is to study the reproduction of the modern society. The author has analyzed a complex process which includes various types of activities of the subjects of social relations, tools for solving the most important tasks of the society: realization of fundamental interests and achievement of strategic goals. However, the goals of individual subjects, public and private, may both coincide and contradict each other. According to the results of the study, the author concludes that the viability of the social system is determined by perfection of its elements and components, quality of social relations, degree to which the interests of the main subjects of society (the most influential and numerous social groups and strata) are realized. The author pointed out that military security is the most important factor of social stability and dynamic development. The article is aimed at specialists in the field of social philosophy dealing with the issues of social reproduction.

The aim of the article is to substantiate the methodology of management research based on the philosophical algorithm of cognition. For this purpose, a significant body of research in the field of social management was analyzed. The author characterized social and philosophical analysis and substantiated the need for a philosophical algorithm of knowledge in the study of management. The proposition was proved that in the study of the stated algorithm one requires a complex use of the sets of general and specific methodological procedures. The practical value of the article lies in author’s highlighting the dominant methodological tools appropriate for application at each stage of the philosophical algorithm of knowledge in the study of social management. The article is aimed at a wide range of researchers of social management.

The article is devoted to the issue of abortion and legal protection of life and health of the child at the prenatal stage of development. Considering the balance of «acceptance» and «rejection», the author believes that abortion has a negative impact not only on the physical and mental health of women, but also on the family and society.

The authors study the value basis of social systems, the gene-historical development of spiritual and moral values, determine their nature and characteristics. The research methodology includes interdisciplinary, historical-philosophical, axiological approaches and socio-philosophical analysis of the topical issues of social existence. The study is focused on the nature of spiritual and moral values which reveal the value basis of social systems and are a system-forming factor that unites the subjects of interactions in the development of social space. It is emphasized that spiritual and moral values set the humanistic vector of the development of modern state structure, along with consistency and structuredness. The authors come to the conclusion that the indicators of spiritual and moral values determine individual psychological changes in the structure of the personality, its moral improvement, form the stability and integrity of social systems.

The aim of this work is to assess the practical value of the socio-philosophical aspect in combating corruption and providing anti-corruption education. The author analyzes and summarizes the results of a number of philosophical and general scientific studies on anti-corruption issues. Special attention is paid to the importance of dissertation research. On the basis of generalization of scientific research the matrix of applications of various scientific disciplines and their roles in fighting corruption manifestations was developed. The study determines the place of social philosophy as a coordinating science in this matrix and justifies the necessity of its use in combating corruption. The theoretical value of this study is to summarize the data on the use of various scientific and theoretical disciplines in anti-corruption practice, and to demonstrate high importance of social philosophy. The article is aimed at various scientists and practitioners involved in the development and implementation of anti-corruption measures.

The article discusses the aspects of socialization associated with the growing role of mass communication. The level of interpersonal communication within a primary group and the level of communication of the individual with the whole society through its institutions are determined by mass media, which makes the latter’s role fundamental. Within the framework of primary socialization a complex phenomenon emerges associated with the fragmentation of society into communities that are formed through social networks. The impact of these communities can stretch far beyond the necessary preparatory stage to proper socialization, they can restrict social activity of the individual. Timely consideration of the quality of socialization given mass-communication factor and finding ways to minimize the possible negative effects have become the most urgent tasks nowadays.

This article is concerned with the study of the place of philosophemes in the structure of cognition of modern transformations in the social sphere. The stage of integration of philosophical and non-philosophical knowledge is analyzed in the context of the study of modern trends in the society at the level of social and humanitarian problems. Both fundamental and applied sciences recognize «social transformation» as an ambiguous, complex and multi-vector phenomenon, so philosophers can become practical «indicators» of the direction of «transformation» and interpretations of the concepts of «social change», social revolutions, reforms, modernization or social movements. Social philosophy today recognizes that in social and humanitarian knowledge the concept of “social transformation” is used as a philosopheme which becomes both a structural part of various areas of non-philosophical knowledge (due to the universal moment in the consideration of complex social phenomena), and allows of analyzing the essence of specific phenomena or processes on the basis of interdisciplinary socio-humanitarian and socio-philosophical synthesis.

The article considers the fundamental bases of social transformations connected with socio-cultural activity of the subject of culture realizing basic socio-code. The main focus of the article is on current problems of the new European socio-code in which contradictions between rigid forms of abstract and conceptual ideas of society («ideologies») and ideopractice as individual ways of social surviving of different socio-cultural subjects is the initial collision of its identification.

The article considers the interaction of subjects in social being as a basis for solving the problem of the influence of informatization on modern society in the context of globalization. The research methodology includes interdisciplinary, systemic, axiological, dialogical, anthropo-culturological and socio-philosophical analyses of current problems of social existence. The attention is focused on the existing contradictions of rationality and morality, virtuality and reality, transnational globalism and national cultures leading to conflicts and crises. It is emphasized that a change in the characteristics of social systems requires updating the value basis in social being. The necessity of the study of social systems and subjects of interaction in the social space from the point of view of the transformation of the value basis in social being is substantiated. The author comes to the conclusion that new behavioral imperatives and development strategies of the subjects of interaction in economic, political, military, scientific and other activities are needed, consolidating society in the context of information globalization and ensuring the sustainability of the country’s development.

The aim of this paper is to identify axiological bases for increasing complexity of a social organization determining its development. The author analyzed a considerable amount of research in the field of philosophy, economics, social management on the development of social organization and management to make a characteristic of the conditions under which the social organization complicates its structure. It has been proved that the increasing complexity of social organization is determined by axiological bases: sense-forming values-objectives, activity and technological values, motivational, incentive and regulatory values. Thus the axiological contour of the development management of social organization has been defined as a gradually evolving dynamic structure. The practical value of the article is in the proof of interdependence between values, innovation and adaptation of social organization as a basis for the management of its development, which should be considered as an objective determining factor. The article is aimed at a wide range of researchers in social management.

The purpose of the article is to identify the ways to ground the ontological integrity in Russian religious philosophy of the 19th - early 20th centuries. The study was conducted by applying the methods of historical and philosophical analysis: a comparative analysis method; method of historical and philosophical reconstruction; interpretation method; method of synthesis as a combination of the interpreted material in a new entity. As a result of the study, it was revealed that the Russian religious philosophy of the 19th - early 20th century attempted to build a comprehensive ontological system that would rationally combine the rationalistic ideas of substance and the Christian idea of divine energies. The problem of the attempted synthesis was not solved because it always led to logical errors and inconsistencies in the system. The theoretical significance of the article lies in the fact that the undertaken historical and philosophical analysis of the failed ontological synthesis sets before the modern science a task of understanding the essence of energy as such, revealing the nature and possibilities of interaction between human and divine energies, which advances the problem under consideration to an interdisciplinary level.

This paper is devoted to the problem of interpretation of the texts of Holy Scripture and Holy Tradition, as well as their theoretical and practical correlations in the life of every person and social development in general on the path of spiritual and moral improvement. The aim of the study is the discovery and designation of some important aspects of Christian symbolism in an anthropological, historical and philosophical perspective. The theoretical and practical significance of the study is to identify some general trends and characteristics of Christian symbolism and symbolic interpretation of the texts of Holy Scripture. The author identified and analyzed the characteristic aspects of Christian symbolism. In the course of studying this problem, the author uses general logical methods of theoretical knowledge and methods of scientific research: comparative analysis and synthesis, generalization, analogy and systemic approach. As a result of the study, the author has identified general tendencies and features of Christian symbolism and symbolic interpretation in historical, philosophical and anthropological perspective.

The aim of the article is to carry out a philosophical analysis of Tertullian theology, namely the problem of correlation between the divine and human in Christ. At the base of the research is the philosophical method of Tertullian - assimilation of man to God the Creator with all the properties traditionally ascribed to God: love, reason, free will. The author empirically studies the very first contours of early Christian anthropology and ethics, on the one hand, and on the other - shows how anthropological postulates gradually became the basis of ethical teaching. The theoretical and practical value of the research lies in revealing the anthropological and ethical teachings of Christianity, as well as determining the place of Christian ethics in the modern world. The article is aimed at students and postgraduates studying philosophy, theology and religion.

The article is concerned with studying the influence of advanced technologies on the development of human civilization. The methodology of the article includes a comparative analysis of phase transitions from agrarian to NBICS (nano-bio-info-cogno-socio) revolution, socio-philosophical analysis of post-industrial economic and cultural type of civilization. The research has provided insights that the transition of humanity from the early to the latest Neolithic Age, which launched the material pre-requisites of culture progress, marked first and foremost the changed attitude of human to nature. The novelty of this attitude was in cultivation of nature-used forms of economics (cattle-breeding, agriculture, crafts as tools for providing “consumer” life cycle of humanity) and the corresponding forms of thinking. The potential transition of humanity from modernity, which maximizes the principles of the Neolithic revolution, to the phase of civilization replacing it, is fundamentally different from the previous one. The theoretical and practical value of the article is in identifying the direction of the future revolution the pathos of which is in the approval of new forms of human practice and ideology. The latter are developing on the basis of a) the formation of new subject-object relationships characterized by the destruction of the “consumer” and the assertion of productive and creative attitude of man to nature; b) adoption of norms, ideals, values characterized by specific criteria of eco-interaction and eco-communication.

The article aims at studying the value basis as a factor of the stability of social systems. The authors chose systemic and dialogical approaches as a philosophical and methodological platform for understanding the value basis of the subjects of educational activity and transformation into social systems. The main focus of the article is on the systemic approach that allows to simulate the interaction of the subjects of educational activities in social systems, identify the nature of the value basis and its trends in the formation of social reality. the authors argue that the dialogic approach presupposes a dialogic interaction as a type of value relationship of the subjects of educational activities, determines the ways of sustainable development of the society, activates the value basis in social systems. It is substantiated that the study of social systems and subjects of interaction in the social space from the point of view of transforming the value basis into social reality is absolutely necessary. The authors come to the conclusion that the systemic and dialogical methodological approaches to the formation of the value basis of social systems are defined as a system of conditions and methods that purposefully activate the process of spiritual and moral development of the subjects of interaction, and act as the value-normative requirements of social relations.