This article reveals the peculiarities of the disgusting and analyses the semantics of this notion. It outlines the differences between the ugly and the disgusting and lists the main types of disgust. The ability of the disgusting to stop aesthetic judgment is discussed. The situation of artistic representation and aesthetic point of view is considered as a means of suspension of disgust in favor of aesthetic perception of a hideous object. In conclusion the author summarises the distinctive features of the disgusting and the ugly.

The article analyzes the approaches to the construction of artificial intelligence through the prism of holographic paradigm. The connection of frames as a cognitive structure with concepts and memes is considered according to the principles of inclusion and activation. It is argued that the frame model is an analogous systematic model of human consciousness. It is shown that the concepts activate the cognitive aspect of consciousness and are included into the frame which formulates the script of human experience. The conclusion is made about the necessity of constructing multivariate patterns of artificial intelligence combining different approaches to the representation of information and knowledge management.

This paper attempts at reviewing the role and place of religion in the life of a state and the influence of the religious factor on the post-Soviet space. Religion is considered as a central, determining characteristic of a civilization. After analyzing the religious situation in the post-Soviet space, the author reveals two types of religious communities: of constructive and creative sense contributing to the development of the society and of devastating and destructive sense, with both types being explained concerning the causes of their appearance. The basic religious trends in civilizational self-determination of states encountered at the collapse of the USSR are revealed and described.

The article considers the activity of the agent of history in terms of the conditions that are determined by borders. Each agent acting in history is forced to pose himself in relation to the phenomena divided by borders. This choice of position determines not only the agent’s way of life but also possible results of their activities. To realize himself in history the agent has to transcend, to cross the borders determined by the immanent conditions of his existence.

In the article the author studies the continuity of digital art in a uniform historical evolution of the art concept. By applying the paradigm approach and V. Rubtsova’s classification the author attempts at dividing the art history into periods possessing their own characteristics. The heredity is shown between the latest stage of art history and digital art. In conclusion the author substantiates the important role of digital art as a successor of the cultural tendencies which emerged at the beginning of the era of technical reproduction of cultural objects.

The article considers human rights as a philosophical category. Given the complexity and multidimensionality of human rights considered in many Social Sciences and Humanities, regulations are necessary to systematise the proposed concepts, build their hierarchies based on the relevant philosophical category revealing the essence of this phenomenon. The methodology of this research draws on the provisions of the freedom of the individual and the humanistic picture of its existence. Within the framework of humanism the images of «homo economicus» and «homo humanus» are created.

The specificity of the professional activity of the officer of the Russian Interior Ministry troops requires a set of spiritual and moral values indispensable in fulfilling the service tasks which consist in the promotion and protection of the internal security of the individual, society and state arising from internal threats and dangers. The author of the article focuses on those spiritual and moral values which qualify the highest readiness of an officer to serve one’s people and state as well as his social properties.

The article presents the analysis of the philosophical understanding of rational communication. The development of ideas is examined by using the method of historical reconstruction. Classical and non-classical types of rational communication, their unity and differences are analysed in comparative analysis of the views of absolutism and relativism. The author highlights the presence in modern epistemology of a middle position between the absolute significance of criteria for all subjects and their complete non- scientific arbitrariness. Such contents of rational communication are supported by a comprehensive, reasonable, a priori form of argumentation depending on specific cultural and historical situation.

The main purpose of the process of conceptual design of anthropological ideas in Russian religious philosophy was to create an ideal model of man which is a spiritual and physical integrity. Equally important in the formation of the whole person is a synergetic process of joining the efforts of the divine and human origins. Russian philosophy, starting with the Slavophiles and Vl. Solovyov, has strived for the synthesis of the concept of all-unity and Orthodox energetic state where the spiritual and corporal origins become an inextricable spiritual and physical integrity.

Contemporary psychology is characterized by a contradictory combination of attempts to become an empirical science and practices which consist in application of various pseudoscientific «methods». Thus the knowledge about man received with the help of such techniques turns against human beings. A necessity arises of a bioethical approach as an essential form of humane expertise of contemporary psychological «practices». It is necessary to apply the physician’s main principle «do no harm» to the professional activities of the psychologist. In pedagogical psychology training it is rational to support the course which is based on the synthesis of Orthodox Christian ethics and anthropology.