Vol 6, No 2 (2024)

The article is devoted to comparing the philosophy of V.A. Kutyrev and B. Latour from the point of view of the difference between the two main types of “philosopher” – Philosophe and Philosopher, the first is focused on reflection, the second – on reflex. Despite all the dissimilarity of V.A. Kutyrev and B. Latour’s thinking, several points of contact can be found between them with careful and biased examination.

The article examines theoretical and methodological aspects of developing a definition of the concept of posthuman. Particular attention is paid to identifying the specific features of posthuman studies that can distinguish this direction of philosophical search from related fields – primarily philosophical anthropology and transhumanism studies. The most influential modern concepts of posthuman are also analyzed, the general and special features of the proposed definitions are highlighted. The authors believe that a significant part of the difficulties that arise when defining a posthuman can be resolved by considering it, first of all, as a bearer of attributive qualities.

The author of this article analyzes the specifics and nature of modern war as a conscientious war aimed at capturing and transforming consciousness by recoding the value system of coordinates, historical memory and patterns of behavior. The hybrid character of the conscientious war is revealed, which is expressed in the combination of real attack and symbolic violence, as well as internal and external threats to the national state. The connection between the conscientious warfare and identity politics is asserted. Possible mechanisms of countering the consciential weapon are analyzed.

The article presents the author’s reflection on the possibility of using the methodological field of the history of everyday life in the study of the phenomenon of the Cossacks. The study of this issue made it possible to offer the author’s interpretation of the term “everyday life”, to determine the facets of the study of the everyday life of the Cossacks.

The article examines the relevance of applying phenomenological and hermeneutical research to solving key problems facing society in the era of digitalization. Particular attention is paid to the methods of applying phenomenology and hermeneutics in the study of the risks of introducing new technologies into civil litigation. The paper emphasizes the significance of deeply understanding these changes for devising strategies of adaptation and development in a rapidly evolving society.

The article discusses the question of the question of what is the nature of the laws of logic. These laws reflect practice, but not in the sense of material production, social action, or scientific experiment. They reflect the practice of people using the language, which serves as a means for them to transmit, accumulate and preserve knowledge. One of the tasks of logic is the explication of ordinary language representations associated with the use of logical connectives, the result of which should be the replacement of these representations by strict concepts included in the structure of logical systems.

The article attempts to find out what the actual conceptual meaning is contained in the term “virtual reality”, which has been in circulation for half a century. The author applied the principle of objective activity (gegenständliche Tätigkeit), which helped to clarify that the essence of the so-called virtual reality is the objectified ideal (Ideelle), but objectified not in a material substrate, but in energy, specifically in electrical energy.

The article deals with the category of truth as an element of the legal mentality of Russians. The author explores the category using comparative legal and cultural research methods. The author comes to the conclusion that the term “truth” has a religious context and denotes a social ideal, the highest good. The concept of truth has been an integral element of the legal mentality of the Russian people since the 10th century. At present, it has not lost its significance, being the moral ideal of the modern justice system in Russia. The concept of truth should find consistent procedural implementation in laws, reflecting essential features and improving the quality of law enforcement.

The article analyzes the deep components of the Russian idea. Today there is a powerful breakthrough in the development of Russia, it is necessary to understand and identify the features and meaning of this process, which makes the question of the essential characteristics and depth of the Russian idea especially relevant. The Russian idea is understandable in isolated, fragmentary meanings and intuitive insights, and in its entirety it can be understood only through a comprehensive metahistorical view of the problem. The search for the Russian idea is presented in the context of a conversation about the extrahuman realities of culture, about its original modalities. The ethical and aesthetic structure of the Russian idea is that it is not abstract, but becomes part of life itself, that very movement in the middle of being, in the “middle of nature”. The ethical and aesthetic structure of the Russian idea is that it is not abstract, but becomes part of life itself, that very movement towards unity in the middle of being, in the “middle of nature”.

The article is devoted to theological aspect of teaching the German classical philosophy as structural element of a system of modern arts education in Russia. The nodal moments on which the teacher entering the students into the problem field “Philosophy of Religion of Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel” is offered to focus are allocated. The epistemological clusters built around concepts “God”, “religion”, “church”, “Christianity”, “Bible”, “Scripture” are carried to number of those.

The article draws attention to a problem of a seemingly philological nature: a retelling of a classical philosophical text in the interests of, for example, a reference publication or a textbook. However, in reality it turns out that even venerable authors do not always cope with this task. As an example of an incorrect retelling, philosophy analyzes Aristotle’s ethics – as the most seemingly accessible section of his philosophy. The error in the retelling begins with the fact that the central concept of Aristotle’s ethics – “a wonderful act” remains ignored. Aristotle has this one concept, and not the concept of “act” with the assessment of “beautiful”. It is in the single concept of “beautiful act” that the concept of “honor” is implicitly contained, which Seneca, subsequently developing the essence of Aristotelian thought, will develop to the concept of “conscience”. An error in the retelling of the text turns the entire retelling into an arbitrary construction, and therefore even a tour through quotes becomes more preferable.