Cultural dialogue with an Alien/Stranger on Frontier
territories takes different forms depending on the
specific period in which intercultural communication
occurs. It is possible to allocate three periods with
particular forms of intercultural communication: the
early frontier, active frontier and postfrontier. If
meeting with a Stranger/Alien in the active period of
the frontier is characterized by the active suppression
of a Stranger, sometimes to His complete destruction
or enslavement, in the period of postfrontier there
comes a revision of forms of this dialogue and the
image of an Alien/Stranger radically changed from
negative to positive. This article analyzes the
transformation of the Stranger’s image in the
postfrontier space of the USA. It shows how the
image of the Indian in the second half of the 20-th
century got increasingly positive features
In the focus of the article we have the philosophical
concept of the outstanding scientist and social activist
V.M. Behterev, which is considered as philosophical
realism. Philosophical realism is a trend of Russian
intellectual thought. It aims to study the nature and the
man is substantial part of which. In this way, the
realism is based on the anthropological tradition.
Realistic ideology, which is developed by scientists,
indicates the comprehension of the relationship of
material and ideal in nature. To designate such
connection the author proposes the concept of
"philosophical conversion". Behterev's theory is
positioned as a particular expression of philosophical
realism in nature science, and it is termed by
"evolutionary monism". It means a correlative
connection of a total processes in nature. By analyzing
the philosophical views of the scientist, the author
concludes that psychic energy appears as a correlate of
material and ideal and it is intermediated by humans.
Psychic energy like other forms of energy is never
destroyed and provides a social immortality of the
man. The accumulation of mental energy leads to the
creation of higher moral being named «progenerativ».
The realistic concept of Behterev is interesting both a
historical point of view and in the context of
contemporary interdisciplinary efforts to comprehend
the "second reality" of man, namely a virtual reality
The analysis of values of family system was done; we also shown the transformation of the family values with the development of the society
The article deals with the issues of formation and development of cultural self-identity under the influence of the cultural and historical dynamics. Careful attention is paid to the description of continuous formation of the elements of self-identity on the back of the changing time perception
In the recent past, class-consciousness was considered
one of the expression forms of social consciousness
and acted as its main form due to close interaction with
interests of people. The class-consciousness and the
consciousness of classes were two separate matters of
consideration. It was supposed that the essence of
class-consciousness and of the class-psychology
concomitant with it could only be comprehended in
consideration of structure of the social consciousness
as a whole. The correlation and interconnection of
social psychology and structural units of social
consciousness and ideology was a topical issue.
However, it should be noted that any consideration of
the social consciousness and psychology is just a
naked abstraction when it is made in any of their
interpretations with no account taken of the material
bearer, i.e. the human who is a living organism, and of
population, genetic and environmental circumstances.
Therefore, talking about the class-consciousness and
revolutionary nature of consciousness of the working
class, we meet the following expected question: how
can we talk about any progress if everything comes to
destruction and further formation of an allegedly
classless society with bloodshed and death of a
significant part of population? At the same time, we
can observe reemergence of the thesis of human
heterogeneity that the humankind is not a single
species but a biological genus. The species this genus
consists of have their own genus-consciousness, which
is also aggravated by race features and race
consciousness. That is why there is actually no sense
in talking about peculiarity of the class-consciousness
and social consciousness regardless of certain society
encased in some geographical shell. Research in this
field is worth being developed after moving to the
level of biosphere
The article is devoted to the analysis of positions of
some philosophers who negatively estimate a role of
equipment in human lives and societies. It discusses
the philosophical concepts of E. Yunger, F. Yunger,
M. Heidegger, K. Jaspers, etc. Besides, the authors of
this article address to A. Schopenhauer, F. Nietzsche,
M. Makklyuen's heritage. In this work it is shown as
methods of formalization and symbolization in science
are transferred to areas of humanitarian knowledge and
spiritual life, impoverishing them, turning "the
understanding thinking in estimating". Calculation
becomes a sign of the mechanized reality in which
education, work, household submit also to the
principles of mechanization. Extrapolation of
mechanics to all the spheres of human existence leads
to destruction of the humanistic principles: the world
as mechanical system is the world where one element
can be replaced with another where each part
represents only object for studying and manipulation.
In the article we also describe tendencies of
transformation of people into masses on the basis of
the rational estimating tradition of Modern times.
Thus, in this work the problems menacing to the
essence of "human" are being put and the message for
further searches of the way of permission of the
question of dehumanization in connection with
technical development is formulated, when it is
impossible to refuse it completely
The article is devoted to the analysis of representations of hierarchical structure of the universe in ancient Greek mythic-epic tradition. In the research there was shown that the myth reflects the main program of interpretation of main principles of the universe by a man in its structure; the Chaos in itself possesses the generative power and forms an order from itself but the hierarchy appears together with the formation of the order-outer space. The first deities – Gaea and born from her Uranus, mountains, Pontus, - possess the great power and in the first place, the power of generation. From works of Gomer and Gesiodus we ascertained that the history of gods was connected with the fight of children with the father-sovereign. One generation of gods became that support on which the other stands. The third generation of gods is sovereigns in greater extent than another one. The generation of Titans is implacable but lives according to unlimited forces of nature. Titans are unbridled. Gods-Olympians, on contrary, have the relation to conscious restriction. Gods of the third generation possess passions: love, hate. However, Olympians as well as humans must submit to transcendental law of the universe. Gods of the third generation join to the rationale. The order of the universe submitted to the law – Destiny is disseminated in human community. Power as an accidental of initial hierarchy gives itself in hands of that who can submit its will to absolute power of Destiny. The legitimacy of power is determined by initial hierarchy of the universe
In the article we consider some main tendencies which are characteristic for development of modern natural sciences and for ontology and the theory of knowledge’s process. Features of synergetic as interdisciplinary scientific direction, the concept of a universal evolutionism, value of information in nature development are discussed. Methodological basis of the process of integration of scientific knowledge is the interdisciplinary direction of the research which important component is the synergetic. It plays an important role in the concept of coevolution realization which considers mutual relation of the person and the nature, the micro- and the mega-world. The article demonstrates that having revealed the laws of functioning of complexly evolutionizing, nonlinear systems, synergetic thus posed the fundamental questions of both epistemological and ideological and value nature. Conceptual shifts occurring in cognition open up the new sides in the interpretation of not just order and disorder but also the categories they generate. The author points out on the features of synergy, which using the linearity аnd nonlinearity in the theory expresses the aspects of material unity of the world, linked to the general properties of self-development of complex systems. The universe is seen as a dissipative system with periodically removable elements (elementary dissipative systems)
The article discusses the role of religion as a form of spiritual culture in the context of everyday life. Cultural and religious function of religion reveals the relation of religion to spiritual cultural in aspect of the symbolic codes of everyday life. Under the spiritual culture we understand a set of positive achievements
of mankind in intellectual and emotional spheres, in achieving awareness and understanding between people of different faiths
In this article, we are talking about language mentality
of youth. The problem is multifaceted and allows the
researcher to see different aspects of the interaction of
language and mentality, and also their actions in unity.
Mentality of young people is largely determined by
social conditions, which is expressed in language
features. Language, in turn, has some formative
influence on the socialization process of the youth
mentality. Philosophers, psychologists, linguists,
historians examine various aspects of interaction of
mentality and language, relations between language
and thought, language and history, language and
national culture, language and learning, language and
humor, etc. In this article, exploring the mentality of
the youth system, we distinguish among them
language. The goal is to show features of youth
language mentality as a way of perceiving the world,
to determine levels (degrees) of functioning mentality
as a language picture of the world, to identify the
factors of formation of individual linguistic mentality
of the individual and the social environment