Vol 7, No 1 (2025)

The aim of the study is to understand the concept of a social state, identify and systematize the indicators that characterize it. The developed system of indicators is capable of reflecting various aspects of the development of a social state and presenting a comprehensive picture of its functioning. The study is aimed at assessing the relevance and social significance of the identified indicators, determining how much they reflect the modern challenges and tasks that modern states face, and what aspects of social development they take into account. The conclusion of the study is the confirmation of the scientific novelty of the allocation and systematization of indicators of the welfare state. An integrated approach, systematization and structuring of indicators, integration with the historical context, as well as taking into account the relevance and social significance, as well as the diversity of countries and cultures, make this work unique and valuable. The study allows a better understanding of the essence of the welfare state, its main aspects and the relationship between them. It contributes to the development of effective social policies and the management of social states that strive for justice, sustainability and well-being for all citizens.

The article examines the main trends in contemporary philosophizing, which centers on the problem of authorial identity, which has become relevant thanks to the new context (space) of literature – the global Internet and social networks, as well as a new means of creating texts – neural networks. Is it time to talk about dismantling the author's identity, or should we wait? The article discusses the problematic of discursive construction of social phenomena, including online literature. The possibilities of distinguishing between authorial and "machine" texts, predicted back in the XX century, are considered.

The article explores the impact of digitalization on commemorative practices and cultural memory. The author examines the transformations of traditional memory forms, such as memorials and museums, in the digital environment, including virtual memorials, interactive archives, and social media. It discusses new forms of memory preservation facilitated by digital technologies and challenges like historical distortion, data loss, and the commercialization of memory. Special attention is paid to the democratization of commemorative practices and the globalization of memory through digital tools. The work highlights the need for critical understanding and institutional support for digital memory amid its vulnerabilities.

The article examines the main interpretations of the phenomenon of clip thinking and discusses the issues of its conceptualization in scientific discourse. Within the framework of the concept of one-dimensional thinking, the positioning of clip thinking as a modern form of zero-dimensional thinking is proposed. The characteristic of a zero-dimensional person in the socio-cultural landscape is given.

The article gives a panoramic overview of the main results obtained in historical and philosophical research by representatives of the school of students of Academician A.M. Deborin (1881–1963). The main thing in their historical and philosophical research is the identification of dialectics in the works of the classics of world philosophy. The emphasis in the research was not on the systems, as previously the case, but on method. Moreover, the task was to take everything of value for the development of the method of materialist dialectics. The historians of philosophy of the Deborin school paid the main attention to the philosophy of the New Age and German classical philosophy. This article examines the emphasis of the least known or completely forgotten representatives of the Deborin school who studied the history of philosophy. Among the topics of their research are the philosophical views of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Hume, French materialists, Kant, Fichte, Hegel.

The article shows that the materialism of K. Marx and the materialism of Marxists, starting with F. Engels, are fundamentally different materialisms. Marx, through classical German philosophy, goes back to the Aristotelian concept of the relationship between form and matter and transforms the concept of matter thanks to the principle of objective activity he developed, and F. Engels and subsequent Marxists, starting with V.I. Lenin, interpreted matter as going back to T. Hobbes and R. Descartes, as well as to French and English materialism, modernizing it through Hegelian dialectics.

The book “Human Dialogue” written by contemporary American philosopher Michael H. Mitias which has inspired this Essay-review, is published as part of a broader project “Towards a Universal Civilization” (Vol. 5) edited by Polish philosopher Małgorzata Czarnocka, “Peter Lang GmbH.” Publishing house, Germany. Analyzing exquisitely and redbloodedly the eternal problems of human life, such as understanding and cooperation, cognition and conversation, reason and affection, truth and values, [human] nature and essence, in general – the prospects of mankind, M. Mitias defends a thesis that humanity common to all our kin not as an abstract concept but as genus is essentially rational and unputdownably dialogical. And conversation is our allencompassing and allpervasive environment.