The article shows the distinctive features of biological and cognitive approaches to the study of the origin and evolution of language. Their advantages in understanding and explaining of the individual foundations of language faculty are considered. The study shows that these approaches do not take into account the socio-cultural and supra-individual nature of language and its close evolutionary and functional relation with communication in nature and society. The paper argues that the aim of many researchers to find specific genes of language or special cognitive linguistic ‘modules’ are achievable only in part due to systems and social nature of language, which cannot be reduced to any individual innate or acquired abilities. Nevertheless, biological and cognitive foundations should not be excluded from the system analysis of the language and have to be studied in their integrity with other sign systems (mathematic, expressive means of art, writing system, non-verbal communication, etc.). The article also discusses new insights into the theory of evolution and their applicability to the study of the origin and development of language (in particular, the problem of gradualistic/abrupt emergence of language). It is argued that the question of the "abrupt", "punctuated" evolution of language cannot be "Darwin's problem", as a number of modern scholars believe. As an alternative to the evolution of language on the basis of "macromutations" it is offered the concept of socio-cultural evolution model based on an understanding of language as a supra-individual, sociocultural sign system that develops due to the cumulative nature of culture and plasticity of individual development
The problem of correlation of senses and notions in the science, their substitution and the birth of so-called pseudo knowledge is the issue which is more than ever burning in our times of perturbations and big changes. Biological sciences could not avoid these problems as well. All the more so because they stayed for many years under significant pressure of the ruling ideology of those times, of the state and of the governing party machineries. That is exactly why Darwinism as such requires a profound analysis in terms of contemporary achievements of the science, inclusive of philosophy. The analysis of knowledge which is available now and has been accumulated for many centuries of development of the biological science allows finding logical contradictions, possible substitutions of sense platforms, i.e. the birth of pseudo knowledge, which needs to be ascertained and suppressed. The appearance of such branch of the science as biophilosophy exceedingly aggravated the situation due to a number of big methodological shortcomings of this branch which still remains to be a non-science. As it cannot facilitate studying the organic world and, the other way round, even confuses such studying by applying an anthropomorphous matrix to the world, while the ethic and the aesthetic cannot only be attributed to the human mind, the situation becomes pretty complicated. At the same time, the philosophic envelope of the biological science is often filled with various kinds of ideology which makes no contribution to the objectivity of knowledge
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
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 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 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
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
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 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
The analysis of values of family system was done; we also shown the transformation of the family values with the development of the society