The article considers the emerging necessity of technical and technological safety as a requirement for the development of contemporary society. The author reveals the conditions and reasons for appearance and formation of this phenomenon in people's life and scientific studies. It is convincingly shown that the complication of technology and technical systems is a factor which threatens life and activity of people, and should become the object of scientific study.

In this paper literature is characterized as a social phenomenon, which is a relatively independent element of the spiritual aspects of society. The study is based on versatile material describing the fiction from the standpoint of various branches of social sciences and humanities. Considering fiction as an element of the spiritual aspects of society, the authors make an attempt to solve the problem of its evaluation through the interactions with other elements of the spiritual realm. The studies are conducted with the use of philosophical methodology thus putting into practice the ideas of integration of social-humanitarian knowledge with rational development of the cognitive process through the combination of its elements (in the present case - artistic cognition).

The article is concerned with the analysis of the approaches to the definition of philosophy of law. The author examines the 19-20th century science approaches to the subject under investigation. It is underlined that the principles of cognition are integrated in the philosophy of law. Two points of view on the interpretation of philosophy of law are shown. The author comes to the conclusion that being philosophical science philosophy of law is a part of social philosophy.

The article deals with the problem of philosophical analysis of history as important methodological tool of studying the past. The author specifies the reasons for addressing this issue and proves the urgency of philosophical comprehension of history. It is also stated that due to its reflexive nature philosophy itself needs history. Some ways in which history influences philosophy are shown. The analysis of mutual influence of philosophy and history allowed the author to conclude that the two phenomena interpenetrate and their dialectic combination is required (with the account of specificity of each of them).

This article is devoted to the problem of energy substantiation of the world's unity in Russian religious philosophy of the first half of the 20th century. The origins of the energy views - Gregory Palamas's teaching of the difference between the essence and energy - are revealed. The metaphysical conceptions by P. Florensky, A. Losev, N. Lossky, S. Frank, L. Karsavin are analyzed. The basic differences in interpretation of the world's unity and the general philosophical position - the teaching about energies - are identified. The influence of teaching about the energies can be traced in the conceptions of the unity, antinomian nature of the world, ontological nature of the love, symbolic realism.

The article systematizes and analyzes the philosophical debates about the origin of man and his cognitive ability in the works of the thinkers of Cappadocian school. The author comprehensively analyzes the problem of cognitive abilities of man in the light of its research in the philosophical systems of the antiquity and the early Christian heritage. According to the author, the teachings of the Cappadocians about a person is a way to harmonize the issues of reason and faith, a combined study of the world and man.

The article considers the problems of truth theory in philosopher and logic M.I. Karinsky (18401917) who represented spiritual-academic philosophy and science in Russian. Being the main subject of Karinsky's investigation logic was conceived as the theory of cognition. The philosopher researched the methodology of true conclusion and elaborated the theory of conclusion in his doctoral thesis (1880) giving priority to inductive methods of cognition. Karinsky was also the author of the doctrine of self-evident truth cognition which could be approached through intellectual contemplation and summarized the essence of real experience. Thus, Karinsky's theory can be viewed not only as purely logical but having its own ontology. Ontological logic in Karinsky's works was developed into logical- epistemological and historical-philosophical trend.

Genghis Khan has always been a matter of national pride of the Mongolian people personifying the historical greatness of Mongolian statehood. In the post-Soviet period in the context of globalization his role as a symbol of ethnic and cultural identity of the Mongols increased significantly and became a cult. This phenomenon has not only been broadly discussed by foreign researchers, but also had some impact on social and cultural situation in Russia and China.

The article considers the improvement of youth policy administration in Russia. The author argues the measures should be taken to increase the role of young people in the life of the society. Some proposals are made for the government to create efficiently performing youth parliament, to connect the activity of youth and public organizations. Noteworthy and proposal to develop youth policy together with the political parties of the country.