Водещият въпрос, който искам да поставя, е какво може да означава "смяна на фундаменталната онтологията"? Какво може да замени фундаменталната онтология? Какво би представлявала самата замяна и дали самата замяна е нещо различно от новото, дошло на смяна? Това е опит да се мислят изходните положения на Хайдегер като възможности и следователно допускащи ясно формулирани алтернативи.

The famous Bulgariann writer Yordan Radichkov's works are interpreted philosophically. The genre of philosophical and literary criticism is utilized. Any great writer referring to considerable questions of human life and being, and thus, philosophical. A few short stories, plays, and novels of Radichkov (1929-2004) are interpreted accordingly their philosophical content.

The article provides a general characterization on different levels of dimensions of socio-political transformations in the societies that are being transformed. It has been found that the transformation of the public administration system which is subjected to the process of globalization and European integration, cast discredit on the existing regime of the dominion form of government and its system of local self-government. The author investigated that in the XXth century, the crucial role of the chain of dominant communist parties neutralized (...) any characteristic features of the local self-government and, therefore, a clear separation of central government authorities and the authorities of administrative-territorial entities was missing. Undoubtedly, current systems of local self-government and administrative-territorial system of the European countries were unquestionably established as the result of the development of national countries under the conditions of democratization, urbanization and transition into the legal system of checks and balances. Regarding these stages of transition into the democratic and political regime, the author lays her emphasis on the way to the building of the full local self-government. (shrink)

The article analyzes the political situation in Galicia late XIX - early XX century. The author considered policy of the Austrian government in the Ukrainian-Polish confrontation. The factors which determined this politic and its impact on the development of Ukrainian national movement in Galicia are determined.

Development of Russian philosophy in general and the development of its religious lines in particular confirms that to understand Russian history, Russian human spiritual important to explore the philosophical search of the Russian mind. Russian thought XIX - early XX centuries is a spiritual renaissance, promotes wealth attached to the spiritual life of mankind. So, the end of XIX - early XX centuries is for Russia, especially, the time of significant global changes which affected virtually all spheres of human activity. (...) Starting with changes in the political and state system of Russia, then in science, philosophy, religion, and ending with the changes in the cultural, moral and existential outlook of the person. The purpose of this study is to analyze the phenomenon of suicide as a reflection of the spiritual atmosphere that prevailed in Russia in XIX - first half of the XX century. This goal is achieved by solving the following tasks: 1) analyzing the spiritual renaissance of Russian philosophical thought XIX - early XX centuries; 2 ) the phenomenon of suicide is considered as dangerous and destructive social phenomenon for Russia of the XIX century ; 3 ) disclose the essence of metaphorical discourse phenomenon of suicide in the spiritual atmosphere of the XIX century Russia ; 4) clarify the meaning of « suicide epidemic «; 5) The features of the phenomenon of suicide among the Russian intelligentsia. Thus, it should be noted that the spiritual shifts and changes that took place in Russia a designated time period, provoked a sharp, suicidal situation in society, drawing attention to the study of the phenomenon thinkers suicide. Train of transformations that Russia experienced XIX and the first half of the XX century, moving to a new and better life, accompanied by side effects such as social disintegration of society, fainting and loss of moral ideals, faith and spiritual foundations, mass suicide, hostility, which was embodied in the killings and suicide. Such processes could not remain indifferent in thinking minds of Russia, and therefore, the focus of their attention is the problem of the spiritual essence of human morality, faith, belief, death and immortality, freedom and responsibility, the meaning of life and others. In general, a period that covers the XIX - first half of the XX century, can be defined as an attraction to the light of the progress of world civilization, in connection with which it should be noted, and keen awareness of callousness, voids generated by the results of progress. Also this period was riddled with the desire for freedom and social truth that determined the motives of Russian philosophical thought - religious, moral, social. (shrink)

The article discusses the modern philosophical concepts of transhumanism and posthumanism. The central issue of these concepts is “What is the posthuman?” The 21st century is marked by a contradictory understanding of the role and status of the human. On the one hand, there comes the realization of human hegemony over the whole world around: in the 20th century mankind not only began to conquer outer space, invented nuclear weapons, made many amazing discoveries but also shifted its attention to itself (...) or rather to the modification of itself. Transhumanist projects aim to strengthen human influence by transforming human beings into other, more powerful and viable forms of being. Such projects continues the project of human “deification.” On the other hand, acknowledging the onset of the new geological epoch of the Anthropocene, there comes the rejection of classical interpretations of the human. The categories of historicity, sociality and subjectivity are no longer so anthropocentric. In the opinion of the posthumanists, the project of the Vitruvian man has proven to be untenable in the present-day environment and is increasingly criticized. The reflection on the phenomenon of the human and his future refers to the concepts that explore not only human but also non-human. Very often we can find a synonymous understanding of transhumanism and posthumanism. Although these movements work with the same modern constructs and concepts but interpret them in a fundamentally different way. The discourse of transhumanism refers to the Cartesian opposition of the body and the mind. Despite the sacralization of technology and the desire to purify the posthuman from such seemingly permanent attributes of the living as aging and death, transhumanism in many ways continues the ideas of the Enlightenment. For posthumanists, the subject is nomadic and a kind of assembly of human, animal, digital, chimerical. Thus, in posthumanism the main maxim of humanism about the human as the highest value is rejected – the human ceases to be “the measure of all things.”. (shrink)

В діяльності людини мета має велике значення, оскільки вона задає вектор руху людського життя на тому чи іншому його етапі. Життя взагалі можна розглядати як процес реалізації мети, яка має актуальність, є ієрархічною і задає сенс. Дослідження проблеми мети людської діяльності є важливим як аспект діяльності соціальної, що впливає на соціальне буття, соціальні відносини. А в умовах все більшого ускладнення суспільства питання про мету виходить на перший план, оскільки взаємодія загальної і індивідуальної мети теж ускладнюється, особливо в плані мотивації щодо (...) дії, поведінки. Проблема мети розглядається у даному дослідженні не як проблема мети філософії, а як проблема індивідуального і соціального буття, саме як проблема людської поведінки. Це зауваження є важливим тому, що телеологічність філософського знання відноситься до вічної філософської проблеми початку і кінця, вічних цінностей, сенсу людського буття, Бога. У цьому плані можна погодитися зі стоїками, які виділяли кінцеву мету і просто мету. (shrink)

В статті розглядається значення методології дослідження смислу, яка заснована на комунікативній парадигмі, що поєднує достоїнства як менталістської так й лінгвоцентризької парадигм, одночасно усуваючи їхні недоліки. Парадигми припускають різні методології дослідження, щодо яких сформульовані три тези. По-перше, вони мають протилежну спрямованість. По-друге, мають свої онтологічні передумови, що роблять їх однаково обгрунтованими. Та по-третє, внутрішня логіка їхнього розвитку спрямована на зближення. У статті репрезентовано процес поступового формування комунікативної парадигми вивчення смислу. Також, розглядаються дві логіко-філософські концепції, які вплинули на розвиток всієї семантики.

У статті проводиться аналіз етимології феномену космополітизму через розгляд варіантів написання слів космополітизм, космополіт та космополіс. на основі проведеного аналізу сформульовано комплексне трактування досліджуваного концепту.

The discrete–structural structure of the world is described. In comparison with the idea of Heraclitus about an indissoluble world, preference is given to the discrete world of Democritus. It is noted that if the discrete atoms of Democritus were simple and indivisible, the atoms of the modern world indicated in the article would possess, rather, a structural structure. The article proves the problem of how the mutual connection of mathematics and philosophy influences cognition, which creates a discrete–structural worldview. The author (...) notes that the appearance of writing, symbolic language and the depiction of the picture of the world through mathematics, led us into the sphere of discrete mathematical mathematics. (shrink)

Problems of anthropology of time in all difficult variety of its expression in diachronicsynchronic and spatial-time measurements in the light of modern representations about consciousness and mentality of the man, physical and anthropological space and time are analyzed. For explanation of essence of the man in the changed conditions of consciousness the hypothesis is used.

It is shown that there are two causes of the present paradoxical state of the quantum theory, interconnected and closely related: philosophical – it is not defined the reality, the original substance, the physical form – the space is physical, the matter is secondary; and methodological – it is not defined the object of study – the physical space. It is offered the model of the physical nature of quantum phenomena, its "physical fitness." On this basis they are considered the (...) paradoxes of quantum theory and some cosmological implications. (shrink)

Мета. Виявити та переосмислити ключові ідеї Вольтера стосовно релігії й природи людини. Для цього потрібно виконати такі завдання: проаналізувати дослідницьку літературу стосовно своєрідності тлумачення Вольтером феномену релігії; розкрити базові ідеї Вольтера стосовно природи людини; обґрунтувати значимість антропологічного підходу до феномену релігії. Методологія. Основу дослідження складає антропологічний підхід, який розглядає феномени буття як співвідносні з людиною. В дослідженні використовується герменевтичний метод для інтерпретації текстів Вольтера. Наукова новизна. Виявлено та проаналізовано антропологічний зміст філософії Вольтера, переосмислено феномен релігії у філософії Вольтера з позиції (...) її вкоріненості у природі людини. Висновки. У науковій літературі тлумачення феномену релігії в спадщині Вольтера є суперечливим, а саме – критика забобонів та фанатизму поєднується з визнанням факту існування Бога. Доцільним є тлумачення феномену релігії в контексті природи людини та пов’язаних із нею проблем душі та свободи волі, тобто власне антропологічний підхід до феномену релігії. (shrink)

Attempt of trans-disciplinary analysis of the evolutionary value of bioethics is realized. Currently, there are High Tech schemes for management and control of genetic, socio-cultural and mental evolution of Homo sapiens (NBIC, High Hume, etc.). The biological, socio-cultural and technological factors are included in the fabric of modern theories and technologies of social and political control and manipulation. However, the basic philosophical and ideological systems of modern civilization formed mainly in the 17–18 centuries and are experiencing ever-increasing and destabilizing risk-taking (...) pressure from the scientific theories and technological realities. The sequence of diagnostic signs of a new era once again split into technological and natural sciences’ from one hand, and humanitarian and anthropological sciences’, from other. The natural sciences series corresponds to a system of technological risks be solved using algorithms established safety procedures. The socio-humanitarian series presented anthropological risk. Global bioethics phenomenon is regarded as systemic socio-cultural adaptation for technology-driven human evolution. The conceptual model for meta-structure of stable evolutionary strategy of Homo sapiens (SESH) is proposes. In accordance to model, SESH composed of genetic, socio-cultural and techno-rationalist modules, and global bioethics as a tool to minimize existential evolutionary risk. An existence of objectively descriptive and value-teleological evolutionary trajectory parameters of humanity in the modern technological and civilizational context (1), and the genesis of global bioethics as a system social adaptation to ensure self-identity (2) are postulated. -/- . (shrink)

Human simultaneously is the acting person of a few autonomous and interdepending forms of evolutional process. Accordingly, it is possible to select three forms of adaptation and three constituents of evolutional strategy of survival of humanity – biological, sociocultural and technological adaptations. The actual and potential consequences of development of so-called High Hume technologies (technologies of the guided evolution)  most essential from major technological adaptations of humanity  are analyzed. The phenomenon of bio-power within the framework of global coevolutional (...) methodology as one of central elements of mechanism of mutual co-ordination of biological and sociocultural forms of evolutional process from one side and technocultural balance, with other is examined. (shrink)

At the heart of the book - two views (naturalist and humanist) on the dangers of and Prospects of "scientific and technological progress," that defining the face of modern civilization. Its leaders are now the information, genetic cal and biological technology.

Mechanisms to ensure the integrity of the system stable evolutionary strategy Homo sapiens – genetic and cultural coevolution techno-cultural balance – are analyzed. оe main content of the study can be summarized in the following the- ses: stable adaptive strategy of Homo sapiens includes superposition of three basic types (biological, cultural and technological) of adaptations, the integrity of the system provides by two coevolutionary ligament its elements – the genetic-cultural coevolution and techno-cultural balance, the system takes as result of by (...) develop- ment of genetic and information technologies by advent of genetic and informa- tion technologies extremely unstable conūguration; a harbinger of a radical change in the mechanisms of global evolution religion is a consequence of structural and functional organization of the human psyche; it played (along with science and technology) the role of socio-cultural adaptation of the human mind are present a number of ideas or concepts (the idea of God, including) the genesis of that ideas is associated with the interaction of two information systems, that appear to each other as information substrates – emotional, and verbal-logical (discursive) forms; evolution of the mentality has two nodes, that corresponding to the dominance of rationalism or religion in spiritual culture; the problem of rational justiūcation of religion in modern science is presented by two alternative methodologies – evo- lutionary epistemological and metaphysical-ontological ones; both methodologies are incompatible in a logical perspective; in the evolutionary epistemological im- pact concept of religion and science are equal and alternative building blocks of a stable evolutionary strategy of Homo sapiens, and their balance sheet pro. (shrink)

Maxwellian electrodynamics genesis is considered in the light of the author’s theory change model previously tried on the Copernican and the Einstein revolutions. It is shown that in the case considered a genuine new theory is constructed as a result of the old pre-maxwellian programmes reconciliation: the electrodynamics of Ampere-Weber, the wave theory of Fresnel and Young and Faraday’s programme. The “neutral language” constructed for the comparison of the consequences of the theories from these programmes consisted in the language of (...) hydrodynamics with its rich content of analogous models ranging from the uncompressible fluid up to molecular vortices. The programmes’ meeting led to construction of the whole hierarchy of crossbred objects beginning from the displacement current and up to common hybrids. After that the interpenetration of the pre-maxwellian programmes began that marked the beginning of theoretical schemes of optics and electromagnetism unification. Maxwell’s programme did assimilate some ideas of the Ampere-Weber programme, as well as the presuppositions of the programmes of Fresnel and Faraday; and the significance of this fact for further methodology of scientific research programmes development is discussed. It is argued that the core of Maxwell’s unification strategy was formed by Kantian epistemology looked through the prism of William Whewell and such representatives of Scottish Enlightenment as Thomas Reid and William Hamilton. All these enabled Maxwell to start to unify not only optics and electromagnetism, but British and continental research traditions as well. Maxwell’s programme did supersede the Ampere-Weber one because Maxwell did put forward as a synthetic principle the idea, that differed from that of Ampere-Weber by its flexible and contra-ontological, strictly epistemological, Kantian character. For Maxwell, ether was not the last building block of physical reality, from which fields and charges should be constructed . “Action at a distance”, “incompressible fluid”, “molecular vortices” were only analogies for Maxwell, capable to direct the researcher on the “right” mathematical relations. From the “representational” point of view all this hydrodynamical models were doomed to failure efforts to describe what can not be described in principle – things in themselves, the “nature” of electrical and magnetic phenomena. On the contrary, Maxwell aimed his programme to find empirically meaningful mathematical relations between the electrodynamics basic objects, i.e. the creation of inter - coordinated electromagnetic field equations system. Namely the application of this epistemology enabled Hermann von Helmholtz and his pupil Heinrich Hertz to arrive at such a version of Maxwell’s theory that served a heuristical basis for the radiowaves discovery. (shrink)

The Soviet ideology treated natural science as one of its cornerstones and provided the state support for philosophical studies of science. Their main aims were to prove its intellectual superiority and to demonstrate its scientific character. Do these studies have some positive results and resources for surviving in post-Soviet times? The chapter gives the overview of present situation in Ukrainian analytical studies of science and indicates some perspectives of their developments. Some of these are connected with a careful structure-nominative analysis (...) of real scientific knowledge systems and relations between them. -/- Ideology and philosophical studies of science Complexity of scientific knowledge systems Components and structures of knowledge systems -/- . (shrink)

В третьем томе коллективной монографии рассматриваются особенности образовательных систем России и Украины, а также перспективы их развития. Авторы анализируют возможности космического образования, роль материн- ства, семьи и школы в образовательном процессе, проблему самоидентифика- ции нации, ценностные ориентиры, идеал образованности, перспективы раз- дельного образования и воспитания. В монографии представлены исследования академических ученых, преподавателей университетов и школ, аспирантов, студентов из России, Украины, Грузии и Азербайджана, акцентируется внима- ние на формировании образа человека будущего, на повышении эффективности педагогического воздействия. Монография предназначена для студентов, аспирантов (...) и преподавателей учебных заведений всех уровней аккредитации, а также для всех, кто хочет обе- спечить полноценное счастливое будущее себе, близким и своим детям. (shrink)

У даному розділі з підручника "Методологія та організація наукових досліджень" увага приділена розгляду використання феноменологічного методу для гуманітарних наук.

"Да резюмираме: отказът от всяка форма на либерализъм и разделяне на властите, госnодството на една nартия и монополната власт, отказът от всякакъв идеологически · неутралитет и култивиране на единодушие, nреобладаване на бюрокрацията, олицетворяваща nроизвола и тайната, nрезрението към nравото и nак nоявата на политически nрестъnления и наказания за умисъл или "азиатското nрезрение към човешкия живот" - всичко това nоказва, че комунистическият режим е бил не само е наследник на Маркс, но в не по-малка стеnен - наследник на царското самодържавие. Това (...) чудовищно сдвояване на царското самодържавие с ленинския марксизъм е nричината за бъдещия сталинизъм" (Кокен 1996: 350). (shrink)

The article by Iryna Horokholinska «Value challenges of the present: reflections about morally appropriate and religious faith» is aimed to the analysis of the moral and religious portrait of a modern person – in the conditions of globalization and secularization. Should we talk about the total secularization? Did the renaissance of religiosity really come to be? And what's important: what is the mission and strategy of the Church's actions in influencing the axiological self-determination of the modern person? As a Christian (...) can be to a Christian, but not to be preserved in a culturally and mentally obsolete system of priorities for the regulation of personal life? These questions are precisely the markers in the search for the answer to the urgent question addressed to representatives of the Western Civilization - Quo Vadis? (shrink)

We study the logical and methodological aspects of historical and anthropological studies in the twentieth and the beginning of the XXI century.

This article opens a cycle of articles devoted to the ontological aspects of the phenomenon of Enlightenment. The Enlightenment is treated as an internal mechanism of civilization designed to manipulate being (establishment in being – deprivation or attenuation of being). Comparing autochthonous and borrowed Enlightenments, the author tries to trace some patterns of interactions of ontologizing mechanisms of the enlightenmental type and to compare them with the similar mechanisms of different types. In the first article the author analyses the ideas (...) of autochthonous European Enlightenment from Antiquity to Post-Modern. (shrink)

The attempt of philosophical analysis of information is undertaken, as major determinanty of transformation of culture, which supposes consideration in conceptions of modern man becoming of man of virtus with the changing environment of co-operation, globalization of intercourse, loss of identity, new virtual culture. The purpose of the study – a study of concepts information, the information space and the man virtus in philosophical discourse. Conclusions. Thus this study allows us to formulate the following conclusions and conceptual points : – (...) Information that creates a psychological and social basis on which manifests conscious behavior of the individual. The «natural» information around us is a soil origin of living beings and the condition for their development and improvement, while «artificial» information involves the use of new norms and channels of information, it is present in the form of written information, audio messages, television and radio and so on – in other words everything that has been created as a result of human activity; – Information space – a multi-level structure. In a sense, it can be called the metaphor, but at the same time, it is quite possible. – Information space understood as a set of spatial structures in which information is distributed. The information space is a collection of interacting processes and information systems. Changes associated with the processes of information, technology use, virtualization, and cultural space of coverage, expanding modes of transmission of social and cultural experience. New global information technology not only to open up unprecedented opportunities for human development, but at the same time put in front of him and culture complex nature of philosophical problems associated with the dehumanizing culture, rationalization of thinking, adaptability to life. Information processes taking place in society, cause radical changes in the structure and content of modern culture: on the one hand, it includes elements of the previous crop, and on the other, it creates new areas. (shrink)

The classical science considered itself as the standard-bearer of common sense. A no-classical science, on the contrary, underlined broke off with it. The modern post-no classical science dialectically comes back to common sense, owing to synergetic, and also – to new achievements in the quantum physics and cosmology. On this base are resolved paradoxes of sphere of the becoming, which have resulted XX-century physicists on a way of subjectivity. Including, a sensible explanation receive not local effects in various areas, an (...) invari-ance of speed of light in vacuum and many other things. Of quantum area the new physics explains uncertainty of a condition of quantum object and the raised role of the device as typical display of «super sensitivity» of any system to influence in «area of jokers». The origin of the Universe is understood now not as the «Big Bang» which has been not understood for common sense, but as the «Big Boiling» – natural process of phase transition primary vacuum environments in system of material structures. The sensible explanation receives an anthrop principle, which was mystified in a no-classical science. Excess of speed of light by light self at its movement through the non-equilibrium environment naturally speaks that: this environment does not spend an entering impulse, and itself radiates a similar impulse from the opposite party. Not local there is only a process of self-organizing of the active environment. Understood becomes also quantum non-locality, including teleportation. Not local character of universal gravitation speaks the same basic basis, and waves of gravitation have no to it the direct attitude. All these explanations are reached without the contradiction with the relativistic theory, quantum physics and other achievements of a science of the last, no-classical stage of its development. (shrink)

У статті ідентифіковано потенціал економічного розвитку АСЕАН. Досліджено історичні аспекти створення інтеграційного об’єднання АСЕАН. Оцінено сучасний економічний стан АСЕАН у світовому господарстві. Проаналізовано наявні та визначено майбутні тенденції розвитку АСЕАН. Розкрито проблематику та перспективи розвитку АСЕАН.

Определено, что туристическая индустрия имеет важное значение для развития государства, однако ее роль в странах отличается в силу влияния ряда факторов. Идентифицированы угрозы, проблемы, тенденции, вызовы, риски и субъекты как главные факторы развития туристической деятельности в Украине. Отмечено, что дальнейшее развитие туризма в Украине обеспечит реализацию социально-экономического потенциала государства в краткосрочной и стратегической перспективе.

In order to reconstruct the problem of justification of human rights, article deals with evolution and modern interpretation of this problem. Justification of human rights is regarded as identifying of their limiting grounds, i.e. the manner in which these rights are entrenched in being at all, or at least being human. The author reveals the skeptical and non-skeptical approaches to the justification of human rights, descriptive and normative strategy within the latter, the will theory and the interests theory, as well (...) as the main directions of their criticism. Advocates of the interests theory approach argue that the principal function of human rights is to protect and promote certain essential human interests. Securing human beings’ essential interests is the principal ground upon which human rights may be morally justified. The philosophers John Finnis and Otfried Hoffe are regarded as representatives of the interests theory approach. The interests-based approach tends to construe our fundamental interests as predeterminants of human moral agency. This can have the effect of subordinating the importance of the exercise of freedom as a principal moral ideal. This concern lies at the heart of the will approach to human rights. The will theory attempts to establish the philosophical validity of human rights upon a single human attribute: the capacity for freedom. Will theorists argue that what is distinctive about human agency is the capacity for freedom and that this ought to constitute the core of any account of rights. Herbert Hart, Henry Shue and Alan Gewirth are regarded as representatives of the will theory approach. Criticism of this theory is that if the constitutive condition for the possession of human rights is said to be the capacity for acting in a rationally purposive manner, for example, then it seems to logically follow, that individuals incapable of satisfying this criteria have no legitimate claim to human rights. In conclusion, it noted that the debate about the justification of human rights can not be stopped, due to the very nature of the latter, in particular, the openness of human rights as a consequence of the openness of human being as such. (shrink)

The article analyzes the approaches to the Orthodox anthropology that existed and exist both in philosophical and theological studies and in theology. Three areas in the study of Orthodox anthropology.

In the article physicality's phenomenon is revealed as a contradictory and topical issue of socio-philosophical discourse. The consideration of the theoretical-philosophical and psychological definitions of physicality made it possible to disclose it as an attribute of human-morphemes and the integrity of anthropo-being. Attention is focused on body-transformations in conditions of cyberculture and the main boundary forms of human body-modifications are determined. Physicality is defined through the prism of socio-cultural practices as a way of preserving social man and the main means (...) of individual self-identification. The representation of spiritual filling of physicality is carried out helping of its symbolic-attributive codes of interaction with culture. Physicality is considered as a visualization, a realization of the spiritual existence of man and the substratum of man's creative potential.. After all, man's life values, empathic abilities, motivational attitudes, ideas and vital signs are formed through his physical deformations and psychosomatic states into a person. Person's estrangement from natural development, turning into an immortal and not needing a reproductive update leads to a crisis of humanity and an anomie of universal values. After all, such phenomena of human relations as love for children, the unfolding of oneself through the understanding of others and the definition of fragility and not the infinity of human existence, and generate humanity. And these humanistic attitudes shape the meaning of human life in its content. If this sense-determining physicality's layer of is eliminated, man's existence is jeopardized. The solution of this issue is demanded by modern society without delay and only practical philosophy can offer solutions to it. Physiosophy or samosofia is a new direction of modern scientific knowledge about the spiritual and cultural senses of body and its physiological influences on this process. Excluding physicality – we eliminate materialization's substrate of conscious and cultural sphere of man, deprive the person of his spiritual expression of filling, his symbolic-attributive algorithm of interaction with culture. (shrink)

What were the true reasons of the second scientific revolution? – To answer the question, the epistemic model is applied, according to which radical breakthroughs in science were not due to the fanciful excogitation of new ideas ‘ex nihilo’, but rather to the tedious, long-term and troublesome processes of the mutual lapping, reconciliation, interpenetration and intertwinement of ‘old’ research traditions preceding such breaks. It is contended that Einstein's 'annus mirabilis' constituted an acme of the second scientific revolution. To fathom in (...) what felicitous ways Einstein's 1905 writings hang together one is bound to pay special tribute to his longed strive for unity evinced in incessant attempts to coordinate the profound research traditions of classical physics. Though Einstein's efforts sprung out of Max Planck's pioneering attempts to comprehend electromagnetic phenomena through the lenses of conceptual structures of statistical thermodynamics . It was Planck, who clearly realized the cross-contradiction between 'the physics of material bodies’ and ‘the physics of the ether' and outlined the sketch of its withdrawal: the paradigms 'must be modified to remain compatible'. And it was Planck who took the first step in modifying the physics of the ether and contending that 'not only matter itself but also the effects radiated from matter' possess discontinuous properties, which can be characterized by a new natural constant: the elementary quantum of action. Einstein's part consisted in that he took the second step in modifying the second component of the encounter – the physics of material bodies. Einstein’s foolhardy light quanta hypothesis and distinctive special theory of relativity turn out to be mere milestones of the unwinding of Maxwellian electrodynamics and statistical thermodynamics reconcilement research program. The notorious conception of luminiferous ether was a substantial obstacle for Einstein’s wayward statistical thermodynamics in which the pivotal lead was played by flagrant light quanta paper. Einstein was aware that his enticing light quanta hypothesis was too audacious to be taken literally and he laid out his version of 'electrodynamics of moving bodies' in a markedly Machian/ Duhemian, phenomenological way. As a result of the revision of the second scientific revolution key episode, the arguments are exhibited in favor of the necessity to modify the history of the genesis of general relativity; correspondingly, the process of unification of electromagnetic and weak interactions that took place in the second half of the XX-th century is scrutinized. Eventually, the encounter and interpenetration of the two dominating research traditions of modern physics – that of general relativity and quantum field theory – is elicited. (shrink)

One of the defining features of the ability of society to update, upgrade, transition from traditional to modern structure is the formation of women’s activity in different areas. Today, social and cultural equality between men and women is a matter of equality of human existence. It is known that the position of woman in society represents the valid level of civilization of the one or another social community, and unmistakably reflects the level of commitment to the principles of humanism, equality (...) and democracy by its members. By exposing to criticizm traditional patriarchal concept of socio-cultural development of mankind, modern feminism has put forward an alternativeto it, in which woman appears as an active and equal with men the subject of social process. Feminism is focused the main attention on the abolition and identifying of discriminatory practices to women, its main task is the liberation of women from restrictions imposed by the men, and providing them with equal opportunities in society. Therefore, the increasing of public attention to the important issues of social modernization – the emancipation of the individual, consciousness by the woman of her nature and opportunities, and also lively discussions and controversial assessments of these processes actualize the research of the formation and development of feminism as a theory and practice. In this article research interest is focused directly on the development and transformation of feminist ideas, concepts and movements in the context of sociological theorizing. Feminism having the almost two centuries history, as a theory and as a practice, is still continues to develop and transform. Having arisen in the XVIII century, for today feminism has not gained clear universally accepted definition. In the twentieth century feminism from the practice of social and political movement for the equal rights for women turned into a phenomenon of general cultural scale with expanded philosophical concept. At the end of the last century feminism has advocated for the revision of relations between genders because of radical changes in the living conditions of people that occurred under the influence of such factors as globalization, the spread of education, improving women’s and men’s consciousness, strengthening the legal and financial independence of women. In the modern stage the female factor is significant and requires a rethinking of the foundations of civilization. Therefore, in the third millennium to the fore come a fundamentally new issues determining the women’s place in the modern society, without solution of which it is impossible a further human progress. (shrink)

Розглянута проблематика яка стосується подальшої долі існування людства. Проаналізовано основні передумови виникнення кризових явищ. Розглядається комплекс заходів які покликані врегулювати економічні, екологічні та соціальні кризові явища. Запропоновано приділити ретельну увагу культурному аспекту концепції сталого розвитку, з метою популяризації її у суспільстві. Представлено концепцію сталого розвитку як визначальну умову побудови оптимальної моделі суспільного розвитку.

У статті розглядається інтуїтивистська етична концепція Дж. Мура, розкриваються її основні риси, що стали причиною виникнення аналітичної філософії освіти Р. Пітерса. Зокрема, звертається увага на трактування здорового глузду, добра, боргу, доброчесностей, етичного вчинку і поведінки, уявлення про універсальне співтовариство. Показується яким чином педагогичний аспект основних положень етики обумовлює відношення до знання.

Розкривається сутність дизайнерської творчості, яка має людиновимірний характер, оскільки людина є креатором дизайнерського продукту, що вимагає відповідної методологічної рефлексії і культурного осмислення. Творчість тлумачиться як цілепокладаюча діяльність, яка є суттєвою ознакою і одним з активних станів цілісної людини, що сприяє формуванню «другої природи», яка «набудовується» над природними умовами людського буття. В дизайнерській творчості як специфічній діяльності, творчість є мірою досконалості людини і дійсності, яка виступає одним із проявів буття свободи.

У статті розкривається сутність методології у двох аспектах: як процес інтеграції методів наукового пізнання та як процес приросту нового знання. Обґрунтовуються нові методологічні пошуки: сутність сучасного міждисциплінарного підходу через системній підхід; укріплення парадигми цілісності та інтегративності в науці; формування нового понятійного апарату на основі синергетики; зв'язок науки з системою позанаукового знання. Досліджуються нові методи пізнання, такі як абдукція, комп’ютеризація, метод «кейсів», метод дослідження куматоїдних об’єктів.

During the 20th century there have been many attempts to reconstitute political knowledge as objective, value-neutral empirical science. One of such attempts was the “behavioral revolution” in political science. However, apart from this tendency a different one can be traced: scholars strived to openly acknowledged political goals and values as a factor in their own work. In this case one can speak of “engaged knowledge”. Pierre Bourdieu, a representative of this tradition, spoke of the need to give up an image (...) of the “scholar who locks himself up in his ivory tower” and stop the “flight into purity”. He urged scientists to bring their knowledge outside academia and join social movements. In the similar vein Michael Burawoy emphasized the necessity to make sociological knowledge available to the wider public. The article reveals the ways in which engaged knowledge distances itself from the image of political and social scholarship as “pure science” as well as from the approach of political philosophy with its emphasis on philosophic contemplation. This perspective opens up the way for the analysis of Max Weber’s ideas on the value neutrality of scientific knowledge, essential features of the “behavioral revolution” in political science, as well as Leo Strauss’ views on the nature of political philosophy. The article develops the ideas of feminist standpoint epistemology, which is contrasted with the scientist’s “gaze from nowhere” and philosopher’s “gaze from above”. Finally, the article gives account of the problematic relation between engaged knowledge and the Marxist tradition. (shrink)

The article deals with capitalism as a characteristic element of the modern post-industrial society and its culture. It is noted that, along with the historical, economic and other aspects of understanding the capitalism’s phenomenon, in this paper considers, mainly, its impact on modern culture in general, and the role of capitalism in the formation of a number of features of bourgeois ideology, in particular. For the disclosure of this issue in the paper appeal is made to some foreign and domestic (...) researchers, who have paid special attention to this problem. Among these researchers can call following: P.A. Sorokin, R. Barth, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse. These researchers mainly critically comprehend the role of capitalism in modern society. Based on the analysis views this researchers on the role of capitalism in modern society and culture, this paper raises the question of the future prospects of the functioning of capitalism. Conclusion on the issue presented in the following: capitalism as an organic element of modern post-industrial society in the foreseeable future will continue to be the dominant form of its ideological, cultural and economic life. This conclusion is due primarily to such three factors: first, the decline in the modern world’s socialist systems, secondly, the absence of other clear alternatives to capitalism, and, thirdly, the relative stability and plasticity of capitalism itself. (shrink)