Update spiritual values, priorities, and new that meet the needs of our time, adapted to the usual values and pass certain tests – a complex, long, and the main objective and inevitable process that never in history has passed so quickly as in today’s world. The human world of the XXI century living illusions fundamental values of the new age replacements. But practice shows the long process of permanent abandonment of traditional values and return them as creating new ones. Proclaimed (...) values of pluralism does not compensate for the deficit more or less stable system of relations that would promote the growth of the spiritual potential of people. So once again become relevant «absolute» and fundamental values – goodness, truth, beauty, family, work, welfare, child welfare, etc., despite their ambivalent character. At the level of society, social group, individual, they serve as the «architect» of socio-cultural space, because there are objective in nature, although fundamentally subjective. Sign postmodern world is a crisis of values, which is caused by active «powers» to create a set of «generalized» global human values; while the fact is also the problem of socio-cultural identity, which is based on them caused by globalization processes. In our opinion, these two crises completely overlap, as there are in the same cultural space and isolation can not be resolved. This dual crisis fully projected for modern Ukrainian society and has general effects: positive – as human adaptive capacity expansion modernity; negative – as escapism, unpromising outlook, inability to focus on strategic tasks, focus on current problems of being so lonely. The existence of fluctuating identity as the world and in the Ukrainian society makes Highlighting peculiar set of spiritual, time-tested values: goodness, freedom, the meaning of life, justice, conscience, mutual respect, human dignity, charity, kindness, and traditional family values. The traditional spiritual value of Ukrainian society prevents manipulation and various socio-cultural impositions on identifying, for the creation of so-called «global identity». Humanity as a whole has a certain resemblance to spiritual values, the difference lies in their hierarchy, to establish priorities. The problem of identity Ukrainian society seemingly too abstract. However, historically inherent ambivalence Ukrainian people totally actualizes the problem of self-determination in the context of changing vectors of Ukraine XXI century. Lack of a clear system of values, morals, ethics erosion directly affects the level of conflict in society. The loss of moral imperatives in various spheres of social – economics, politics, management, etc. – make the question of dehumanization, difficult to construct one model of socio-cultural identity for Ukrainian society. And this is the main criterion for the life and potential of the people and of the state, the ability to identify and overcome internal and external challenges, while maintaining their own identity, providing a historical perspective. (shrink)

Здійснюється філософський аналіз туристичної діяльності в контексті масової культури. Культурний туризм у сфері масової культури – це дещо більше ніж орієнтація на культурні цінності, це усвідомлення своїх власних культурних цінностей в контексті загальносвітових, на правах дистанціювання і діалогу культур. Прослідковується трансформація цінностей у масовій культурі та засоби культивації споживання цінностей культури в туризмі кінця ХХ – початку ХХІ століть. Культурний туризм у просторі субкультур масової культури розглядається як поле, де в процесі споживання виникають нові значення в залежності від потреб та (...) індивідуального розвитку особистості, і тому туризм як культурна практика може розглядатися як контркультура в масовій культурі. (shrink)

Problem of connection the noosphere’ becoming and human being evolution examines here. In this sense origin of Noosphere determines not only technics, human ecological duties, democracy and so on but also new evolutional leap of Homo sapiens. Man’s evolution means human intuitive creativity development and morality. The intuitive abilities of person seems be continued within noosphere itself. Such interpretation based on the personaliastic approach, i.e. considering V.I. Vernadsky’s person and internal experience.

Schmitt and Strauss are often discussed in literature as if their conceptions of political had nothing in common. But, as the author shows, Heinrich Meier careful study of the relation between Schmitt and Strauss tells us that the three editions of Schmitt’s «Concept of political» and Strauss’s «Comments» on it may be seen as largely overlooked «hidden dialogue», in the course of which Strauss’s 1932 critique had significant if unacknowledged impact on Schmitt and political and theological foundations of his thought.

What is the event? How the phenomenology of event is possible if the "event" is not the phenomenon in the classical meaning of this word? French philosopher Claude Romano discusses these questions with his Russian colleague Ruslan Loshakov. The interlocutors consider the concept of event in different contexts, paying special attention to the relationships which connect the phenomenology of event with Husserl, Bergson, Heidegger and Levinas' ideas.

The chapter of Max Weber’s The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism analyzes the basic life orientations within Confucian ethics, and their economic implications. The author suggests that since the Chinese civilization had no powerful independent social class of priesthood, its functions were performed by the state bureaucracy. Furthermore, the author points out the absence of natural law and formal juridical logic in Chinese life, which had a significant impact on Chinese legal consciousness. In the main part of the chapter, (...) the author reveals the essence of Confucianism as a type of rational secular ethics. He emphasizes the freedom of metaphysics, and the secular nature of Confucianism. Weber makes the notion of “decency” central to his analysis of the Confucian ethical worldview. He also demonstrates, through the concept of “deference”, the structural identity of personal relationships within the family and the bureaucratic hierarchy. The economic views of Confucian-educated bureaucrats, or the so-called mandarins, is analyzed as based on the strict rejection of any professionalization and specialization. The author emphasizes the positive attitude of Confucianism towards personal wealth and well-being, which was not perceived as an ethical problem. Weber underlines the importance of a classical literary education of potential candidates for responsible positions in the civil service, and the resulting personal benefits. Weber also posits the fundamentally pacifist nature of Confucianism. Weber concludes with the thesis of the absence in Confucianism of any methodical life orientations that characterize the religions of salvation. (shrink)

In the second of ten Lectures on Political Right, delivered in Madrid’s Ateneo in November 29, 1836, Juan Donoso Cortés considers the notion of “popular sovereignty.” Distinguishing mind and will as two parts of human essence, Donoso deduces from the former the “law of the association” that unites all human beings, and from the latter, the “law of the individual,” that separates them. Hence, the main problem for Donoso as a liberal conservative is how to combine these two laws. Donoso (...) states that while traditionalists propose to focus on the “law of the association” and ends with tyranny that destroys free will, revolutionaries, by contrast, focus on the “law of the individual,” which leads to anarchy as a variant of the same tyranny. In making a historical digression to the periods of the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages, Donoso shows how the revolutionary idea of “popular sovereignty”, linked directly to the “law of the individual”, gradually overcomes the idea of “divine right of kings”, based on the “law of the association.” Donoso criticizes the English and French philosophers of the 17–18th centuries the most, as these philosophers laid the foundation for historical drama of the Great French Revolution. Offering his own liberal-conservative alternative for the two named extremes, Donoso calls to abandon the “atheist”, “immoral”, “absurd”, and “impossible” “popular sovereignty”, and combine the “law of the individual” and the “law of the association” on entirely different basis of the “sovereignty of reason, sovereignty of justice”. (shrink)

The study tested the analysis of the origin and evolution of the concept of «the media space» in scientifi thought. Clarifid that understanding the concept of «the media space» was launched in sociological and psychological approaches, and in the further defiition of this concept was carried out through a the cultural, philosophical, geopolitical approaches etc. In view of the above, the subject of analysis in this article is the defiition of «media space» with the positions of various scientifi approaches, the (...) goal - fiding signifiant common characteristics in the defiition of «media space for the formulation of its author integral defiition. In view of the above, the subject of analysis in this article is the defiition of «the media space» with the positions of various scientifi approaches; the goal is the fiding signifiant common characteristics in the defiition of «the media space» for the formulation of its author integral defiition. Determined that at the present stage, the concept of «the media space» is used in several senses – as a conditional territory where take place information and there transmitters, which f time to time enter producers and users of information; as a system of relationships between certain subjects and objects of production, distribution, processing and use of information; as part of a symbolic space that has a specifi hypertext structure. It is found out, that present approaches are general in interpretation of media-space, as a complex system that organized by the network principle, peculiar to them virtually largely transforms communication system, changing the nature of the interaction in the process of information exchange, creation and transmission of information. Proved that the important subject of forming the media-space are remained mass-media, that accumulating all of the technological innovations and acquiring such properties as mobility, convergence and interactivity have transformed the media-space in the environment in which gradually erased the boundaries between producers and users of information and communication interaction between participants of information relations on the principle of many-to-many. The author integral defiition of «the national media space» as «the environment in the territory of the state which, in accordance with existing laws, principles and rules, based on the existing media infrastructure carried out information and communication interaction between organizations and persons to meet their information rights and freedoms». (shrink)

The main approaches to the definition of populism and its place in political life. The question of the formation of populism especially in election rhetoric. The issue of populism is one of the leading places among the themes of modern political research. The relevance of this phenomenon is due to the important role of populism in society, both in theoretical and practical terms. This primarily refers to the political processes taking place in Ukraine, especially in election campaigns. Recently seen on (...) the Ukrainian electorate, where by both opposition parties and ruling all preparing for elections 2015 year, forgetting their campaign promises and programs. (shrink)

Article is an extract of afterword to forthcoming translation of Carl Shmitt’s Political Romanticism. This book is the first Schmitt’s writing which attracted mass attention of intellectuals. It contains ideas which he elaborated whole his scientific career. However it is impossible to understand Political Romanticismwithout proper context – both of epoch and of intellectual and political biography of Schmitt. Before he started criticizing romanticism Schmitt goes through the enthusiasm with romanticism. This enthusiasm of young jurist is a key issue of (...) this extract. (shrink)

Theory of social events is a new attempt to create a general sociological theory. Now it should be better substantiated than it was done on the initial states of the research. One has to pay more attention to the different modes of use of the concept event in a few schools of sociological methodology.

Contrast of geopolitical reality is an axiom for theorists and experts of international relations and geopolitics. At the same time its structure, inflences, the spatial continuum are open to be debated. That situation leads to permanent discussions and numerous assumptions amongst scientist. Modern mass culture is one of the basic tools that shape the understanding of geopolitics at the level of mass consciousness.

менеджмента устойчивого развития, которая дает определение стратегического менеджмента устойчивого развития и основные пути его осуществления в условиях глобализации. Отмечается, что стратегия развития в том, что практически состоялся переход от двухмерной к трехмерной концепции. Причем в данной триаде социальный фактор стал ведущим. Концепция устойчивого развития есть комплексной концепцией, которая пытается дать ответы на наиболее острые проблемы современности. Ее отличает далеко идущий критицизм в отношении традиционных путей социального развития и в то же время требование нового мышления и переориентации общества. Как результат анализа (...) всех документов по устойчивому развитию делается вывод, что концепция устойчивого развития – это динамическая концепция, которая требует выработки нового стратегического менеджмента, расчитанного на перспективу. (shrink)

The article provides a physically reasoned arguments in use of that Time has a complicated topological structure. The presents a list of certain physical properties that describe the Time as a complicated physical object. Formulated the question of the need to build the actual physical struc- ture of Time. To understand the complexity of such a project is considered the feasibility of its imple- mentation to attract scientific disciplines such as physics, philosophy, mathematics and astronomy.

У статті поставлено проблему виключення теми кольору з філософського дискурсу в контексті значної зацікавленості кольором у XX сторіччі в полі культури і політики. Питання про можливість включення теми кольору у філософський дискурс розглянуто через концептуальне розрізнення трьох фігур – філософа, софіста і антифілософа, запропоноване Аленом Бадью в семінарах і роботах після 1992 року. Найбільшу увагу приділено фігурі антифілософа. Виходячи з положень Бадью про різницю між антифілософією та софістикою, проведено стислий огляд роботи Людвіга Вітгенштайна «Нотатки про колір», який демонструє її антифілософський (...) зміст. (shrink)