Sympathy for nature is an essential component of ecological thinking, and a sign of ethical perception of nature. The proposed paper analyzes the ways nature is understood and treated in J. Bentham’s utilitarianism, ethics of A. Schweitzer, and ecological ethics of A. Leopold, especially the motives...

The article presents an analysis of the features of the philosophy of culture in abroad Russian Neo-Kantianian tradition, most fully presented in the works of F. A. Stepun and S. I. Hessen. Following the German predecessors, the Russian Neo-Kantians considered values as a key problem of philosophy of...

The article considers the phenomenological theory interrelation with some other directions of modern socio-philosophical discourse, primarily - with existentialism. We formulated the difference between the phenomenology of M. Heidegger and existentialism J.-P. Sartre. Considered existential sociology...

The paper analyzes one of the most often used modern symbols - the sword, dwells upon the main stages of the sacral and symbolic significance of the sword. Results of the research suggest that the roots of the modern symbolism of the sword date back to the Middle Ages. Much attention is given to the...

The article considers a complex of ideas of Pierre Bayle, the famous French thinker of the XVIIth century, related to the religion, morality, and freedom. The great Voltaire, who, like all enlighteners, experienced the strongest influence of Bayle's main work “The Historical and Critical Dictionary”,...

The following article deals with the varieties of interpretations and conceptualizations of nature in classical (ancient and medieval) Indian Philosophy. We find in these conceptualizations the fruitful ideas for environmental philosophy. Cosmos and the nature are nearer to impersonal principle than...

The work analyzes the present-day global problems, which result from the rapid development of science and technology. We consider the liaising between the technological progress and human society at different stages of its development. The author analyzes such problems as the influence of mass communication...

The article examines the problem of ecology of a human, studies the correlation between self-knowledge and "self-concern" in the ancient culture, explores the existential phenomena of idleness and labor in the historical context. It also distinguishes various forms of "fatigue" in relation to the life...

Some philosophers are unjustified in their attempts to remove the category of truth from philosophy and science and to replace it with the concepts of sense, validity, and plausibility. This paper considers classical and non-classical concepts of truth. The paper aims to substantiate the hypothesis about...

The article analyzes the central concept of Parmenides philosophy, i.e. true being. One of the possible representations of this concept is its interpretation as a logical law, namely, the law of identity. However, there are different ways of representing this law, determined by a selective logical analysis...

The Article XI of Theses on Feuerbach writes: “in the past, philosophers only interpreted the world, but the problem was to change the world”. This sentence is the most famous and well-known classical quote cited by scholars from Marx’s works and it understands Theses on Feuerbach from practice to knowledge...

Gentleman is an ideal personality established by Confucius when he lived in a world without the principles of truth and right and in the age of ritual collapse. The realization of Confucius's "gentleman" thought education is a process that educatee practices benevolence and justice and becomes gentleman...

The author analyzes the most important phenomena of our time – social violence and power – in terms of identifying traditional and modern theoretical models of their relations. The philosophical concepts of H. Arendt, J. Bentham, and M. Foucault are presented, being considered through anthropological...

Self-concept has a complex transformation in the history of philosophy. Through the investigation of this transformation, we can see how the philosophy of different eras internalizes into the concept of life. In modern times, subjective philosophy experiences the process of rise, establishment, and rethinking,...

The following article proposes the approach of distinguishing of three core components of the complex phenomenon of eros which are love, sexuality and eroticism. The proposed approach can be the foundation for further studies of the social ontology, psychology and phenomenology of love and sexuality...

Under the deep intervention of the human practical activities, the natural ecosystem is gradually becoming unbalanced, suffering an unprecedented crisis. After a systematic reflection on the causes of the ecological crisis, organic Marxism puts forward a series of new ideas. Adhering to the principles...

The main task of this article is to analyze some philosophical approaches proposed by the contemporary scholars of religious hermeneutics and history of Indian Philosophy and Religions. The author tries to ponder and correlate the weak and strong points of each approach. The three approaches, which were...

The article deals with the levels of organization of scientific knowledge. It is substantiated that every developed branch of science includes four levels of knowledge: perceptual, empirical, theoretical and meta-theoretical ones. Though being interrelated, the levels aren’t derived one from another....

The article enunciates and justifies the consensual conception of the scientific truths nature. The basis of this conception is a constructive and representational interpretation of scientific knowledge at all levels of scientific cognition: sensual, empirical, theoretical and meta-theoretical. We consider...

The article analyses the following problems: 1) whether philosophical foundations of science are included in the structure of scientific knowledge; 2) what types there exist; 3) what their functions in scientific cognition are. The author proves the position that philosophical foundations of science...

While analyzing the phenomenon of engineering and technological reality, the relevance of developing such specialized discipline as the philosophy of technology in terms of ecological science is substantiated. Modern interpretations of the phenomenon of technological reality are given alongside with...

Jaspers’ interpretation of a renaissance as recollections and reawakening of the potentialities of the Axial Age is useful methodological approach to the study of cultural ascent epochs in religious, philosophical and social spheres. In British India the Bengal Renaissance XIX – early XX centuries can...

The article dwells upon the three systems of natural and scientific worldviews: anthropocentrism, biocentrism, ecocentrism. It states that each system has certain basic theses, plays the role of an aggregate of behavioral attitudes and theoretical theses. Their hierarchy is being revealed. The utopic...

The article investigates the initial philosophical principles of the green economy concept, which is one of the modern promising approaches in economic science. The authors analyze the essence of the green economy, describe a retrospective of its conceptual development. They come to the conclusion that...

The paper considers the methodological basis for information sciences including terminological base and the issue of defining the notion of information. Both the problem of classifying information sciences and the analysis of metaphorical understanding of the notion of information in evolutionary biophysics,...

Logic, same as other sufficiently developed sciences, features two types of knowledge: empirical and theoretical. At the empirical level a distinction is drawn between objects described by logical and non-logical terms. It is possible to divide the first group further, into those that describe objective...

The article is devoted to the socio-philosophical analysis of a phenomenon of fundamentalism, its religious and political facets. Historically, the concept "fundamentalism" has appeared in hermeneutics and had highly specialized value, designating literal reading of the religious text. Having arisen...

Interpretation of Marx's related works reveals the formation of his communist view. The "1844 Economics and Philosophy Manuscript" first expresses the preliminary principles of communism in a systematic theoretical form, and performs criticism for other unscientific communist views, which uses alienation...

Marx regarded the practice of human’s free and conscious activities as a "species characteristic" which departs human from other things, and put forward the view that man is a " species nature", which finds a unified basis for the multiple contradictions of human existence. By relief human from traditional...

The sense of urgency has profound philosophical and practical significance. We understand the social crisis from the perspective of the sense of urgency to prevent it from happening. For the social crisis, we should have a deep sense of urgency and always keep a clear head. The transformation of the...

Post-modernism cultural Marxism, a Western Marxist trend of thought that has emerged and had extensive influence under the new historical conditions where significant change has taken place in contemporary capitalism, has quickly become a critical cultural trend that questions the mainstream values of...