Philosophy

Social memory is a set of knowledge serving as an object of conscious transfer from one generation to another. Its also fixed in the fundamental cultural texts. Study of these texts is a major term of the socialization of an individual in a certain cultural group. Social groups are the mediums of cultural memory, since the processes of communication among the members of the groups act as the constant indicators of the relevance of the information circulating in the society.

The article investigates the relationship between the philosophy of Confucius and «global ethics». It is emphasized that the fundamental Confucian principles coincide with the important moral and ethical installations of «world ethos». 

In article considers the modern Russian social mythology, allocats the basic archetypical elements and the most widespread mythological plots, a role of social rituals during their realization. The analysis of technological methods of myth-constructing shows weak and strong sights of the approach in social management. The author pays separate attention on a problem of opposition of public consciousness to manipulations for archetypical structure of social myths.

Object of study this article is the problem of progressive development and aesthetizations social relations of Russia before reform (1861), reflected in literary, social, political works political attitudes of P.L. Lavrov. An object of research are his literary, social, economic, political views analyzed from aesthetic positions. In article is the actual socio-philosophy problem of development, transformation, perfection, humanisation and harmonisation social relations. 

In article we present the specifics of the communication conflict and virtual person in the modern global space. In this context, concluded that it is necessary social-philosophical understanding of this phenomenon, especially since the problem of communication is connected with the disclosure of the identity of the person, their valuable installations. 

Article is devoted philosophy of history of Peter Struve. Ideas of the Russian thinker are analyzed in a context of philosophy of Russian abroad. Problems of the philosophical bases of history and a historical science are analyzed. Publicistic («The Diary Of The Politician» 1925−1935) and philosophical works of Struve in emigration аre considered. 

The article is devoted to the analysis of the social and philosophical grounds of the destructive human activity. The brief characteristic of various concepts on the given problem which can be divided into two directions conditionally are also given. On the one hand the nature of destruction is examined as a biological predisposition, and on the other hand − as socially determined.

In the article the author bases the statement that the philosophy is a peculiar way of the comprehension of the actuality, the way that is inseparably connected with deduction and is not leaned upon the actual knowledge about the surrounding world. And the way of thinking that is inherent to the philosophy is ‘interpretative’ unlike the scientific way of thinking that can be defined as a ‘calculative’ one. The problems of the spirituality are alien to it and it impoverishes the spiritual world of a human turning him gradually into a lively thinking robot.

Ecological consciousness – the complete and rather new phenomenon of public consciousness which are as reflexion of intensity and a sharpness of an ecological situation, and certain expression, some kind of the indicator of serious changes of spiritual and material culture. The basic causal and internal characteristic of the given kind of consciousness is crisis situations developed in the modern world. It is the major condition of development of consciousness of the person in an ecological direction. 

The Postmodern Era has been widely researched in Russia and abroad. Nevertheless, it is still debatable for both Russian and Western scholars. The problem of language and its metamorphoses has become one of the key issues in this respect. We focus on studying characteristics of the postmodern period, not taking into account its value system. Thus, based on the characteristics of postmodernity we might form an idea of the language itself in the above-mentioned period, since every concept is inevitably manifested in the language.