THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
Aim. To identify the influence of the socio-philosophical ideas of the Slavophiles in modern Russia in understanding the essence of Westernism, globalism and their significance in the ongoing military conflict in Ukraine. To substantiate the thesis that the most popular idea is the conviction that in order to fully restore state sovereignty it is necessary to consistently overcome Westernism, primarily in management structures.
Methodology. The principles of social and philosophical thought of neo-Slavophiles and liberal globalism are compared.
Results. The author substantiates the thesis that the actual break with Western civilization gave rise to a special direction in the neo-Slavophile thought of Russia – Western studies, in the logic of which the NWO represents a direct clash of two types of civilizations: traditional society and the postmodern liberalglobalist West. Accusations of domestic Westerners of anti-patriotism are coupled with the exposure of the anti-democratic and inhumane course of modern Western states, the propaganda of the ideology of transhumanism as a new form of totalitarianism and genocide. Insoluble contradictions between national and Westernizing neo-globalist interests arise when the strategic course towards sovereignty and reliance on tradition does not receive proper elaboration in legislation, which remains liberal and consistent with the global goals of “sustainable development” of the UN. For the Slavophile part of society, the policy of the “new Westerners” for universal digitalization is seen as a threat to national security and the “second front” of the struggle for sovereignty. The need to escape from the influence of Westernizing globalist centers, which call into question the historical existence of Russia, is substantiated. Only by preserving the Orthodox faith can Russia resist the neo-pagan pressure of Western civilization.
Research implications. They are determined by the need to sovereignize and mobilize the spheres of social sciences and education to understand the profound change taking place in the world and choose the right decisions based on the principles of the Russian philosophical tradition.
Aim. This article was brought into being by the attempt to analyze the recent publication of A. F. Losev’s works on the classification of various types of formal logical knowledge and their creative commentary of V. P. Troitsky. The task is to determine the significance of the Losev’s logical thought and the place of the above-mentioned Losev’s text in the history of the overall logical research.
Methodology. The procedure for the study of the historical and philosophical phenomenon – logical research in the USSR in the 1920–1940s – is based on the following scientific methods: historical, hermeneutic, nomothetic, ideographic, synchronic, diachronic, as well as the method of comparative analysis.
Results. The result of the study was a clearer, more detailed definition of the phenomenon of logical research in the period the 1920–1940s in the overall picture of the history of philosophy of the USSR.
Research implications. This work is one of the first studies of the formation of logical thought in the USSR during the designated historical period. Within the framework of the study, different aspects of logical knowledge that have not been studied to date are problematized and special ways of their nowadays actualization are proposed.
Aim. Identification and classification of various positions and their ideological foundations in the historiography of the philosophy of Bengali Vishnuism or Gaudiya Vedanta in the colonial period.
Methodology. The analysis of the researchers’ views, their identity and strategies for interpreting the history, philosophy and lifestyle of the Bengali Vaishnavism is carried out. The main problems of Gaudiya Vedanta philosophy, which are the subject of divergence between different groups of researchers, are also highlighted.
Results. A classification of four groups of researchers has been obtained: 1) Gaudiya Vaishnavas, 2) Protestant missionaries, 3) literature researchers, 4) neo-vedantists. The main problems are the methodology of research, the divinity of the Chaitanya, the continuity and morality of the tradition, irrationalism and the consistency of Gaudiya Vedanta philosophy. The mutual influence of Gaudian philosophy and Russian philosophy was discovered through correspondence of Leo Tolstoy.
Research implications. The theoretical significance lies in explaining the current position of Gaudiya Vedanta in the academic environment of India and allows a more objective approach to the material under study.
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Aim. To identify the process of logical-rational formation of a particularly universal – way of thinking and cognition in its anthropological dimension.
Methodology. a corpus of texts and views of relevant domestic authors was logically and semantically analyzed: from Theophylact (Lopatinsky) to V. V. Zenkovsky.
Results. A conclusion was made about the presence in Russian philosophy of a particularly universal – method and mentality in their antinomic-true conjugation.
Research implications. The epistemological problems of Russian philosophy have been updated with a current emphasis on its originality.
Aim. To describe the theoretical level of scientific knowledge, its subject and methods.
Methodology. The qualitative difference between the ontology of the theoretical level of scientific knowledge and the empirical level of knowledge is revealed. Whereas the meanings of concepts and statements of the empirical level of scientific knowledge are sensory models of real objects and their properties, the meanings of concepts and statements of the theoretical level of knowledge are ideal, purely mental objects, their properties and relationships.
Results. It is shown that the ontological specificity of the theoretical level of scientific knowledge has determined its methodological features. The main methods of constructing the theoretical reality of science by thinking and its evidence-based description in scientific theories are considered.
Research implications. The relative independence of theoretical reality and methods of its construction is justified not only from sensory reality, but also from the empirical reality of science.
Aim. The purpose of this article is to discuss the problem of inclusion of non-epistemological values into scientific knowledge.
Methodology. This research uses a systematic approach based on contextual and comparative analysis methods.
Results. Science has been dominated by the position that non-epistemological values should not influence the evaluation and acceptance of scientific results for many centuries. At the end of the 20th century this idea was criticized. According to new approaches, non-epistemological values play an important role in scientific cognition, including the evaluation and acceptance of scientific results. In the article this thesis is substantiated through an appeal to the nature of values and socio-humanitarian knowledge. It is concluded that the boundaries between epistemological and non-epistemological values are blurred.
Research implications. The results of this research can be used to improve methodological approaches to scientific cognition and evaluation of scientific results.
СОЦИАЛЬНАЯ И ПОЛИТИЧЕСКАЯ ФИЛОСОФИЯ
Aim. To carry out a reflection on the project of human modification using the example of the works of the famous theorist D. Haraway.
Methodology. The methodology of the research is the socio-philosophical analysis, general scientific methods of theoretical knowledge, methods of system analysis, comparison, generalization.
Results. The essence of the “compost community” is analyzed. The article substantiates the anti-philosophical and anti-scientific basis of Haraway’s ideas regarding the nature of the future man, his symbiont species, and determines the futility of their application as social practices.
Research implications. It is shown that the ontology of Haraway’s “compost” is a radical but utopian project for the transformation of man and society, the consequence of which is deanthropologization.
Aim. To analyze the main concepts of “social practices”, to study the genesis of this concept in social philosophy and sociological science, and to explicate the applied significance of “social practices” and “habitus” in the everyday life of an individual.
Methodology. In the process of studying the object of research we applied socio-philosophical, general scientific and private scientific (sociological) methods.
Results. The analysis and interpretation of the main concepts of social practices and the notions of “social practices” and “habitus” are presented, the significance of the analysis of social practices in the conditions of transformation of primarily Russian society is highlighted.
Research implications. The main significance of the study of specific “social practices” lies in the possibility, on the one hand, to identify the current behavioral patterns of the masses and the tendencies for their change. At the same time, a detailed analysis of specific social practices makes it possible to forecast the trajectory of habitus transformation within the society under study.
Aim. The aim of the research is to develop an integrative theoretical model of multidimensional human being that considers both real and digital modes.
Methodology. The research employs an activity-based approach, considering human activity within a community of “Others” and their actions as key factors determining their being. A corpus of texts, including the works of M. Heidegger, J.-P. Sartre, J. Habermas, G. Deleuze, F. Guattari, and Z. Bauman, was analyzed. Particular attention was paid to the views of these thinkers on modes of human being integrated into the social structure. The principle of superposition was applied to model the multidimensional human being, and a method of analyzing probabilistic distributions was used to assess the influence of various modes on human being.
Results. The main modes of human being, such as social interaction, information exchange, communication, and emotional state, were identified. A model was developed to assess the influence of real and digital modes on human being.
Research implications. The developed model aids in understanding and predicting social behavior in the context of digital transformation and can serve as an effective tool for studying the multidimensional nature of humans.
Aim. To study the relationship between human corporality and sociality in modern society, to identify problem areas of the corporal-social relationship in the 21st century, and to search for ways to overcome contradictions.
Methodology. The methodological basis of the article is formed by the methods of comparative analysis and comparative-historical approaches.
Results. It is shown that in the modern world a multi-level contradiction arises between human corporality and society, which is caused by the incompatible scale of socio-technical evolution with biological evolution, which is virtually invisible against the background of technical progress, resulting in the process of destruction of man as a corporal-social being. It is revealed that destructive manifestations are largely due to the underestimation by society of the corporal factor of human existence, and this, in turn, threatens the existence of society and man.
Research implications. The study identified the reasons that give rise to the most significant contradictions between corporality and sociality in the modern world. It is shown that the most important task of the positive development of modern man and society is the harmonization of interactions between corporeality and sociality at all levels by producing social attitudes in which the corporeal and the social will be equivalent, complementary components for each specific person and society.
Aim. To expand the philosophical and political model of a perfect world order.
Methodology. Comparative assessment of global world order projects from the standpoint in terms of Atlanticist and planetary solidarity.
Results. The reflection of the world order being pacified by the West in terms of “The West against the rest” leads to the need for deep meaningful transformations of socio-political apologia and technology to build up contractual culture, abandoning total rivalry in favor of promising cooperation.
Research implications. The objective logic of mankind’s survival in a scarce, resource-impoverished world demands a restructuring of the philosophy of history in the direction of rejecting the “selectivity” of individual peoples and their associations with the transition to a tolerant platform of “generic survival”.
Aim. To conducting a socio-philosophical study to identify the specifics and potentiality of the “Big Country”, or Russian civilization. This potentiality is significantly determined by the apologia of traditional values, the spirit and patriotic motivation of the Russian people, and Russia’s historical and cultural achievements.
Methodology. The method of hermeneutics and the method of philosophical analysis are used. To achieve this goal, several works by famous Russian thinkers F. M. Dostoevsky, A. S. Panarin, St. John of Kronstadt and other authors have been analyzed in accordance with the stated problem.
Results. The novelty of the research has been achieved, determined by a new vision, through the nuances of the metaphysics of the “Big Country”, the main specifics and the main path of Russian civilization. A new understanding of Russia is also stated – not as an “Island” (Tsymbursky) and not as a multi-confessional Eurasia (Eurasians), but as a Mainland Civilization on the defining basis of Religion (primarily Orthodoxy and Islam). The study identifies the reasons for the rejection of Russia by the West, fear and a centuries-old racist attitude. The inevitability and long-term nature of the clash of Russian and Western civilizations is asserted; the reasons and disadvantages of the Western axiological and philosophical-ideological positions (the West is too unchristian, too free, too lost). The aspects of “too much” in both Russia and the West are shown, which expose the deep contradictions of the two civilizations. The probability of the realization of the “completeness of the Logos” by Russia is proved and specific aspects of this completeness are shown (based on Tradition and “non-bourgeoisness”).
Research implications. The research continues the Orthodox and national patriotic tradition of understanding Russian civilization and people. In modern conditions of confrontation with the collective West, this work contributes to the awareness of the national essence and mission of the people and civilization, strengthening traditional values.
Aim. The purpose of the article is to consider the issues of building rational communication in management processes in conditions of instability and uncertainty.
Methodology. During the research, the theoretical method of scientific cognition, methods of induction and deduction, as well as analysis and synthesis were used.
Results. The text of the article notes the expansion of a person’s ability to comprehend the rationalistic authenticity of knowledge in rational communication in the non-classical paradigm due to the equality of different versions of the understanding of rationality and a decrease in categoricality regarding all possible criteria and norms in research and knowledge acquisition. The issues of the formation of meanings in the implementation of communication are highlighted. Based on the considered sources, the article concludes that in rational communication it is reasonable, when using established social conventions, not to be afraid to allow oneself to critically analyze them and look for new norms and meanings.
Research implications. This conclusion is very relevant due to the intensive growth of information and communication technologies, the intensity of information flows, as a result of which communication subjects need to have clear rational grounds for carrying out communication processes.
Aim. To identify the specifics of the subject’s identity in the social reality of modern society, subject to digitalization, which produces new forms of interaction between individual and collective subjects.
Methodology. The complexity, dynamics, and emergent properties of the subject’s identity are considered, taking into account the transformations that have arisen against the backdrop of the digital era. The study uses the method of socio-philosophical analysis of the transformations of social reality, the source of which is information technology, generating variability in identity, radically changing the value orientations of the subject and society as a whole. In addition, an interpretation method was used, which made it possible to generalize the dialectic of stability and variability of the subject’s identity in modern society.
Results. It was revealed that social reality has expanded the space of subjective interactions, radically influencing the choice of guidelines for individual identity. The susceptibility to atomization and fluidity of the identity of the collective subject has been established, which indicates deep, essential breaks with traditional sociocultural archetypes. Conclusions are drawn about an impending bifurcation on a societal scale, where the slightest fluctuations can cause radical changes in society. The specifics of digitalization force it to change exponentially, inevitably affecting the identification of the subject.
Research implications is an attempt to rethink the view of the essence of identity, to emphasize the urgency of the problem of preserving and reproducing cultural values, to identify the responsibility of social institutions for a new quality of the semantic picture of the world at the personal level.
Aim. To examine the interpretation of the concept of “value”, which is considered interdisciplinary. First, the humanitarian anthropomeric dimension of “values” is analyzed.
Methodology. The axiosphere is analyzed from the point of view of synergetics – as a complex, open self-organizing system that has various interconnected and interdependent levels of organization, is characterized by emergence and the ability to self-build. The axiosphere is a dissipative system in which temporarily stable configurations of meanings and values are formed as a slice in a nonequilibrium, dynamic environment. The synergetic approach involves the study of the axiosphere as a complex self–developing system – multidimensional, influenced by various factors that determine the dynamics of its development, its emergence and bifurcation, connected and interacting with many other systems and subsystems.
Results. In the Russian tradition there are three main approaches to the phenomenon of “value”. The first one considers the ability of values to satisfy the material and spiritual needs of a person. The second one refers to the highest social ideals as values. The third one synthesizes the first and second approaches. In essence, values as objects of a value relationship can be considered all the diverse manifestations and products of human activity, social relations and natural phenomena involved in the spectrum of their production and functioning. All of them can be evaluated in the context of due and improper, good and evil, just and unfair, beautiful and ugly, truth and error, etc.
Research implications. A person always perceives values subjectively, as an individual develops as a person, he acquires the ability to critically analyze and creatively revise previously perceived values, as a result of which he forms a certain, deeply individual, personally special set of axiological categories, orientations, as well as ideals, norms, etc. The axiosphere is a world of values and a person’s value attitude to the world. The axiosphere is determined by ontological, geographical and historical factors. Hence its ethnocultural specificity. The axiosphere as such is a syncretic quintessence of many personal, individually oriented axiospheres. The axiosphere, by virtue of its ideal nature, is a dialectical unity of the subjective and the objective, the individual and the universal, the individual and the collective.
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