Philosophical horizons

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Authors: Kravchenko P.A.

The integration of innovative technologies in the body of social reality should be consistent with social purposes, values and meanings. It seems to be heuristically promising to compare information networks with the software. Similarly as the program “animates” the computer by giving it unlimited applicability measurements and networks extend social reality. In other case the social fabric will remain in a passive state. That is why social and cultural potential of global information networks should be understood not as available tools and knowledge of technologies, etc., but as a special kind of social relations that appeares based on innovation and communication technologies of globalized society to establish a balance of information and finding optimal ways of modern society. Information space – a part of social reality that directly affects the determination and correlation between parameters of social space and social time. Information space and accordingly global information networks are not virtual by their nature, functionality and potential. In fact, the purpose of virtualization is the diversion of society from public social and cultural potential of innovative network technologies, by turning the real needs and interests into the random, imaginary ideals, values and purposes. Therefore it is impossible to consider virtual space, which is designed by the mediation of modern media, online social networks (such as Facebook, VKontakte, etc.), gossip, online surveys and other methods, as a full equivalent or substitute of social reality. It can be an equivalent only if socio-cultural potential of global information networks is implemented. Socio-cultural potential of information networks is directly related to humanitarian innovations that are broadcasted with the help of information networks. Producing of humanitarian needs is caused by the protest movement that is triggered by uneven distribution of innovative and socio-cultural potential of the network architecture. However, innovation that is converted into common practice can lead to unpredictable and random consequences. The origin and need of humanitarian innovation is a sign of social system that is coming out of the state of dynamic equilibrium and growth of social entropy. Inconsistency of implementation between socio-cultural potential of information networks and their innovative capacity will inevitably provoke collapse of resistant social structures and establishing a rigid hierarchy, dimensionality, closure society. Keywords: architectonics, virtual reality, global social networks, information, information society, information space, communication systems, convergent technologies, social networks, society, value orientations, values

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Authors: Stovpets O.V.

The paper analyzes (in social-philosophic scope) the problem of interconnection for such categories as «information», «knowledge», «innovations» regarding contemporary sociocultural realities. The comprehension of mentioned categories’ correlation is considered as essential and indispensable precondition for the Intellectual Property Institution research (in its understanding like a social institution). Selected problematic’s relevance is determined by the increasing weight and significance of intellectual property in the information age. The intellectual property institution has become an inalienable sociocultural attribute of post-industrial society. As social-philosophic attention focus involves the phenomena and processes of a social life that specify the whole mankind development, then a problem of intellectual property’s positioning and its correlation with another information types should be an object of socio-philosophic reflection. The purpose of this research paper is a socio-philosophic investigation of the nature and patterns of interrelationship for information, knowledge and intellectual property, analyzing processes of information’s subjectification (its transformation to “knowledge”) and knowledge’s objectification (their conversion to sociocultural information). Learning of interdependence of mentioned processes in various forms of cognition and communicative actions, existing in the natural environment and culture, may facilitate to clear perception of the role and meaning that intellectual property institution performs in contemporary society. Methodological grounds of the research are based on general scientific methods and ad hoc approaches (as particularly are dialectical and comparative-legal methods, systemic, attributive, cognitive and procedural approaches). Changing of information’s ontological status, ambiguity and diversity in methods of approaching to understanding of information concept, transformation of social stereotypes for information transfer etc., all of these require a primary research of the category “information” and extraction of its features. Making an attempt also to conceive the character of notions as “knowledge”, “innovations”, “intellectual property” and their correlation, we have to analyze each of them. Post-nonclassical science and philosophy development period allows to contemplate a multidimensional self-sustaining world, that evolves itself permanently. We used to think about multiplicity of instruments for reality description, about features of the open systems’ behaviour, about irreversibility of local impacts on the sophisticated combination of processes. These ideas are accepted as a certain self-evidence, but some investigators are convinced of illusiveness of such self-evidence. Various facts and events that occur in life, turn the pace and revise directions of changes. Different ways and patterns of perception of the complicated surrounding world varies gradually the very models of reality awareness, offering a lot of interpretations, insinuating and sowing doubts, organizing and destroying, and eventually, arranging a self-organization of being and consciousness. Post-nonclassical science gives an opportunity to understand that the world is no longer a clear and definite. The things seemed self-evident actually may appear not so evident. At the same time, it turns out that we are capable of cognition and intellection (acquiring knowledge about) even those things, we just had no imaginations of. Using post-nonclassical theories’ formalism we construct models of reality, but we know it’s only a mental conjectures, not a reality itself. Meantime self-organizing mechanism’s principles hide themselves from the searching looks, that seek for truth, quest for verity and are thirsty for obviousness. Phrases “information society”, “information age”, “information approach” etc. have become familiar and frequently used. It’s clear intuitively why the predicate “informational” is such often used. It remains to understand the nature of that an information is. A legal definition for information as “any data that can be saved on material object or reflected in electronic form” doesn’t give us any conception of information and shows nothing about its influence upon social development process. Therefore we should appeal to another approaches in research of mentioned phenomenon. We also may use the following definition: “The phenomenon of information is a multistage, irreversible process of structure formation in an open nonequilibrium system, beginning from a random memorized selection that system does, moving from chaos to the order, and ending with a purposeful action according to an algorithm or a program that corresponds to the semantics of choice”. The information is understood as a process consisting of certain stages. Thus, Intellectual Property Institutionin social-philosophic comprehension of interrelations amidst information, knowledge and innovations appears as heterogeneous, differently directed, multidimensional public institution that has a system-making meaning in respect of the contemporary postmodern- information-society. Keywords:Intellectual Property institution, knowledge, intellect, creativity, innovation, information, society.

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Authors: Ivanova N.V.

The problem of forming of socio-cultural worldview in the system of medieval thought is analyzed in the article. The author focusesthat each world characterized and described in philosophy, has not always existed, and is created by social activity, culture and creativity ofphilosophers. In their productive activity which has natural cycles, existing knowledge about the phenomena of life (gods,the being of heroes, spirit and soul, music, nature, economy, etc.) get new sound using rules, regulations and categories. They belong not just to observed phenomena but, on the one hand, to designed, constructed ideal objects, andon the other – to new reality (ideas, logos, being, everything which exists). The new reality is consciously set in parameters of the new thinking. As a result, the world becomes structured, being thought anew. It consists of forms created by thinking of social life, each of which is characterized in the context of the relevant science and philosophy. This situation author considers through the example ofthe age of theocentric philosophy, through the analysis of medieval cycle of thinking. It is qualitatively different from the ancient cycle of thinking. The transformation of thinking usually starts with changing of social, economic, political and cultural spheres of reality and with the formulation of new problems that arise during the solutionof previous ones. But the essence of the transition to the new cycle is caused primarily by systemic crisis, through which every cultureruns. The analysis of the relationship of Christian values of medieval life shows their relationship with socio-political and cultural reality. Thanks to Christianity, in the Middle Ages conversion of the reality takes place. It is built in terms of life through allegorical interpretation of events of being according to schemes of divine worldview, which shows the eternal tragedy of Christ as man and as God. Christianity as a spiritual and moral-value phenomenon has played a decisive role in the transition from ancient to medieval culture, system of thinking and of social life. Moral merits of Christian philosophy as the «religion of love» made it the way of spiritual and practical perception of the world, the true philosophy aboutwhat the true salvationis. The latter was very important for human in his everyday life, because understanding of the inner world (ie, spirituality), takes the ethical form of personal specificity of humanity, humanity in general. Average believer from the epoch of Middle Ages to could not reach such wisdom. But this metaphorical image accurately conveys the sense of the eternal struggle of «good» and «evil», in which Christianity took part, and which was always desirable for person to participate in its sociality and thinking. This, as the author says, is humanistic and social focus of religious and philosophical thinking of the theocentric era. Key words:thinking, theology, culture, transcendence, philosophy, Christianity, morality.

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Authors: Chorna L.V.

The article analyses the Ideal in the light of modern anthropological turning-point comprehension. Nowadays the Ideal interpretation is also topical theme for discussions of philosophy. Deep changes in cultural practices of contemporary globalist world don’t allow to reserve the Ideal within the old bounds of Modern. The purpose of article is to pass from general vision of Ideal to its interpretation within the limits of anthropological turning-point. The Ideal is analyzed in realities of modern cultural practices that influence on its forming. There is scientifically proved that Ideal as “eidos” is mythologized. Present myth is turning into a system of social rhetorical norms and text transformations; it becomes the rhetorical mechanics in lynguo-semiological context (context of discursive practices). In the sphere of newest mythology understanding, of newest system of verbal, linguistic, semiological predications of Ideal operating, the Ideal itself is changing. Jean Baudrillard defines it as simulacrum. There is occurred the symbiosis of tactile, visual and verbal synaesthesia, where the “image”, “gestalt”, “pattern” become a screen, a performance in virtual space of communication. The attention is focused on the constant of this complex visual turn, where everything is visualized and becomes a screen virtual reality. Image eliminates the object as material structure of universal corporality. It is precisely the corporality that was considered as a guarantor of human presence in the world. The image of the ideal body becomes a mental image. The article emphasizes that the visual turn favoured to the appearance of new cultural practices. New punk space, which is oriented on blurring of any boundaries: moral, aesthetic, political, it promotes the mimicry of ideals as regulators. The ideal is analysed in relation to the disciplinary practices of culture, the source of which is in the experience of corporality. It is considered in the new context that compensates for the lost body in the transcendental subject of classics. The article stresses that the Ideal loses its metaphysics of classics, gradually exceeds the limits of normative cultural texts and adapts marginal experience as an ideal. The cyber reality is formed, where you can acquire the ideal constants and create your virtual image. Visual turn from the place as an empty space, from the place where the only ideal is possible, gives rise to a phantom of total identity. The Ideal is turning from image of substance into verbalized construction. The “I” as an image that is mental and deprived of real somatic corporality, becomes a cyborg engineered, it lacks in the main thing - the finiteness of its existence. The article concludes that the Ideals are no longer the unity of the substantial qualities, as they were in classical concepts. They become normative vocabulary markers, markers of disciplinary discursive practices. Ideal becomes transformative-manipulative. The modern Ideal as a system presents a verbal and visual code as complementary. The paper concluded that the Ideal is functioning in the new context of modern anthropological turning-point. Key words:anthropological turning-point, the Ideal, cultural practice, Postmodernism, socio-cultural space

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Authors: Tsebriy I.V., Openko V.V.

The analysis of the concept courtesy as a social and religious phenomenon of classical Middle Ages. Through the analysis of primary sources and philosophical and cultural literature, we are able to recreate the changing model of medieval society and relationships and etiquette in the middle of aristocratic status of the population, which replaced the early medieval model. Proved that Medieval culture defined mental development of Europe until the early twentieth century. Courtly love (fr. Amour courtois) – medieval conception of love, according to which the relationship lover man and his heart virgins likened the relationship between the vassal and his lord. Courtesy as a social and cultural phenomenon of classical Middle Ages had a great influence in shaping the minds of European consciousness until the early twentieth century. For the first time the concept of “courtly love” found in the poetry of the troubadours and palaces trouvère Aquitaine and Provence in the late eleventh century. The most important outlet for the formation of the ideal of courtly love made poet Ovid Roman Empire, whose treatise “The Art of Love” became ten centuries, an encyclopedia behavior enamored knight. The concept of “courtesy” and “courtly behavior” in the Middle Ages was complicated by Christian ideas about the cult of the Virgin Mary. So Beautiful maid, who had to serve a knight, and both became his spiritual image of love. In XII – XIII centuries the concept of courtly love and Medieval culture spread throughout Europe. The work of the German Gottfried minnesingers of Strasburg “Tristan and Isolde” – evidence of the impact of courtesy to all European countries. In England, the most significant monument of courtly culture was “Allegory of Love” Lewis. In Italy courtesy reached its highest rise in the XIII - XIV centuries in poetry “Sweet new style” poetic settings of the “New Life” Dante Alighieri, the sonnets to Laura Francesco Petrarch. In the “Divine Comedy” by Dante Miss Beautiful – Beatrice – is not only the “Platonic” mistress, but ecclesiastical leaders poet’s secrets Paradise. Thus, the outlet courtly ideal of refined behavior and manners, knightly service to the beautiful virgins expressed in a special combination fragile male and female beauty, subtle feelings and create a special “world of lyric lovers” reflected in the Gothic painting and art miniature XII - XIII centuries in art late Gothic XIV – XV centuries. Custodian courtesy and courtly culture was the palace of the Dukes of Burgundy. Echoes of courtly culture were all the rage at the “noble gallantry” XVII – XVIII centuries, the art of poetry in European Romanticism late XVIII – the first quarter of the nineteenth century. This problem is multifaceted and not limited to those studies have to date. In a further development it deserves: a study of the rules of etiquette “noble gallantry” XVII – XVIII centuries and determine where courtly culture heritage artists of European Romanticism late XVIII – the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Keywords: сourtly, phenomenon, troubadour, knight, “world Arthur”.

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Authors: Saliy A.V.

On the basis of works by Polish writer and philosopher Jan Parandowski, the author examines the phenomenon of loneliness as a necessary context of the entire literary process. This is exactly how a specific understanding of the phenomenon of man and his/her uniqueness starts. Attention is drawn to a special role of historical realities, under which the pro-cess of formatting of existential problems in the new, post-war artistic world picture occurs. Especially when the typical antiwar pathos gradually begins to turn into existential one, shifting the emphasis on the fate of specific individuals, freedom of choice, need for perceiving oneself and the world around. The author tries to distinguish and define such concepts as inspiration and concentration in the creative process, which will directly depend on the experience of solitude, possessed by the artist. As a matter of fact, for Jan Parandowski himself it is obvious that without loneliness creator is capable neither of self-realization, nor of self-actualization. In this fact one can see the manifestation of the need for soli-tude and alienation of creative personality. In general, the following is unacceptable for the Polish thinker: the situation of presence of anyone else in those moments when everything will depend on his internal concentration, silence, and solitude, which is for him nothing else but mother of perfection. Keywords: author’s solitude, alienation of the individual, inspiration, cre-ative process, creative thinking

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Authors: Kolokol V.A.

An article is devoted to the analyzing thesis of being inappropriate to set the natural and fundamental sciences against the social sciences as the common notion did. The conclusion is drawn to be possible to apply to the consistent methodology for these sciences. Natural sciences always had impact on the human world view. In the era of modern times the classical mechanics has formulated the principles of a mechanistic determinism. These ideas made an impact on the authors of the most known concepts in the philosophy of history. They considered civilizations as clockworks, which possess the determined scenario of development. In the 20th century the theory of relativity, opening a genetic code in biology and determined chaos in physics forced researchers to detect the general methodology. Synergetics, revealed at the end of the 20 th century, became a new paradigm for investigation of various sciences. The article presents the highlights of foundation for criticism of the most known concepts in the philosophy of history. Each concept, related to the philosophy of history, has got its weak spots. It is connected with the different empirical material, which doesn’t suit to the framework of this concept. The modern approach to the theory of Chaos allows speaking about 4 basic attractors, which govern an order in the Universe. These attractors are represented by dot attractor, cyclic attractor, attractor Toras and strange attractor. Authors on the reputed concepts in the philosophy of history distinguish civilizations within the cyclic attractor. Whereas their critics concentrate their attention on cultural phenomena, influenced by the strange attractor. It is concluded by the article that reviewing the history taking into account these four attractors would sufficiently complete the entire pattern. Key words:synergetics, attractor, bifurcation, philosophy of history

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Authors: Shindaulova R.B.

This article analyzes the phenomenon of noohumanistic worldview, formulates its essential characteristics and estimates the potential of this worldview concept as a strategy in the context of the challenges which formulates the modern civilization. The central core of the “noohumanistic worldview” is the concept of “noohumanism”. The integral concept of “noohumanism” consists of the noospheric and humanistic components. The following features of noohumanizm were defined: civilization, globalization, systemic, worldview, personality-oriented, social-activity, axiological ones. They allow author to identify the main focus of one’s teaching projection, i.e., noohumanistic pedagogy as a productive new direction at modern education. The noospheric component of noohumanism also includes the scientific theories, such as quantum physics, which gives one’s own interpretation of reality which corresponds to this provision of the consciousness role. The natural science component of the noospheric component also includes some aspects of the hypothesis of the physical vacuum theory, other than those of quantum physics. The noohumanistic worldview is close to the ideas of critical humanism and humanistic universalism that focus on self-critical and responsible attitude of man to the universe and announcing the last one’s highest value. It is close to the classical humanistic worldview due to the focus on the achievement of values with their personal and social nature (the ideal of all-round harmonious development of personality), which includes natural conformity included into the educational field as a leading semantic component, self-knowledge and continuous self-education. The noohumanistic worldview is close to ecology-centered worldview in common installation on harmonious relations in the system “man-society-nature” based on the principle of co-evolution. The difference between them is that noohumanistic worldview along with ecology-centered component contains the noospheric, humanistic, natural science ones. Noospheric component underlines the psychological aspect: the noosphere is treated as a global universal psychological field, the main message is sent to the general idea −world-formed value of consciousness. On the basis of comparative analysis noohumnistic worldview with the close types of worldviews (noospherical, the natural sciences, humanistic ones) author determined its specific intrinsic attributes. As a result, the author defines noohumnistic worldview as an integral concept considered as a synthesis of trends in its components: ecology-centered, noospherical, humanistic, natural science. It was proved that noohumnistic worldview is mental, emotional and valued noohumnistic assimilation of knowledge, beliefs, skills, principles, expressed in a systematic and holistic outlook, which is an evolving concept of noohumanism-based skeleton, affecting an individual’s pattern of behavior. Keywords:noohumnistic worldview, noosphere, noohumanism, : ecology-centered worldview, co-evolution

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Authors: Goncharova O.A., Taranenko G.G

The article deals with innovative activity as one of the most important components of modern cultural and educational space, based on the preservation and development of the creative potential and active life position of the personality. This space is characterized by the varied social conditions and is focused on the personality’s self-perception and readiness to meet new challenges. The authors have raised the issue of the creation of a new model of personality’s training to the innovative activity. This model is represented in the form of the scientific and methodological system, which takes into account the conceptual and methodological aspects of the readiness for the innovation. In the article the features of the innovative process are researched and the optimal forms of its implementation are analyzed. The authors have specified the efficiency of the existing standards of thinking of the personality while carrying out the innovative activity. The new approaches to the innovative development in the modern cultural and educational space are also mentioned. The article pays the attention to the features, which reflect the essence of the innovative activity. The main components of the innovative activity are identified. It is mentioned that the transition to the new standards and the introduction of the innovations into various fields will contribute to the personal self-development and therefore will harmonize his inner world and the cultural and educational space. It is emphasized that the research of personal innovative activity will be a result of smooth flow of innovative processes, the personality’s awareness of the sources and features of the implementation of various types of innovation classifications. Perfect management of the innovative activity in the modern cultural and educational space will also facilitate this process. The authors have proved that the successful implementation of the innovations depends on the efficiency of the innovative process. It will be possible if the aim of the implementation is formulated properly that allows personality to decide whether long-term use of innovation is appropriate or the implementation of the innovative ideas should be stopped. One more condition is the effective implementation of the innovations at all stages of its development and implementation. It also provides their logical and organizational connections and continuity, the correspondence of the innovations to the objective needs of social practice, to the professional, organizational, financial and other capabilities of those who implement these innovations. The consistency of the stages of the innovative process is also very important as the result of each stage is a prerequisite for the effective implementation of the following innovation. According to the philosophical and educational analysis of the innovative activity, carried out by the authors, the most important and essential factor that provides acceptable limits of the innovative activity is a system of values, which determines the efficiency and effectiveness of any innovation. The attention is paid to the fact that a modern person “who decides everything”, whose attitude and mental activity is based on the new standard of thinking, is the prerequisite for the success of modern innovations. Key words:innovative activity, cultural and educational space, personal self-development, specificity and structure of the innovative activity, harmonization of personality

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Authors: Ignatyev V.A

The author comes from the assertion that the era of modernity has led to the erosion of religious culture. The consequence of the latter is to strengthen the syncretism of contemporary post-modern thinking. As a result of rational thinking it was replaced by a return to mythologem characteristic feature of which is logical in the background blur mystical and magical forms of thought that form the sacred simulacra. If such simulacra are starting to turn into a public-private, myths with fused into one political and religious factors. As a result, the ontological topology religion replaced ontical instrumentality. This results in a drastic destruction of religion than it does in the modern era. The roots of this relationship is the lack of philosophical and theological thinking of contemporary Orthodox culture. The crisis of thought at one time to Christianity led to the politicization of religion that, in the end, and shaped an entire era of atheism. In support of the idea of vitality syncretic thinking in modern conditions shows that with the beginning of the religious freedom of the late twentieth century. observed further politicization of Christianity from within. Since the introduction of the concept of «political hesychasm», which at the beginning of the XXI century has become transformed into the concept of «Russian World» – is none other than the religious simulacrum. As a conclusion it should be noted that the religious simulacra – quite tenacious forms of syncretic thinking that shows a lack of philosophical and theological thought and culture of the mental framework of dangerous socio-political conflicts. Keywords: religious simulacrum, syncretic thinking, hesychasm, the Russian world

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Authors: Usanov І. V., UsanovаL. А.

The article analyses the anthropological problem of personal realization of human nature, which is caused by the way of its achievement. Ones double natural-ness defines opposite ways of personal identification. On one hand, the guide to the outside of the natural determinism and fatalism is a mask - пρόσωπον(lat. Persona, face, mask) which conceals and disguises the failure of withdrawn self-existence. Quite a different way and fundamentally new methodological approach are opened by the Christian Revelation, in which the man does not open his personal arrange-ment but it is opened to him. The mask is no longer a mask and disguise but be-comes the image detection of inner divine presence. So πρόσωπονreveals its se-mantic action and face mask changing face essential principle of existence. Thus, the human identity is the image of supernatural existence, made by typi-cal for the nature characteristics in individual performance on its own behalf One’s own position sets the focal distance that can fundamentally change the mythological space of its existence. The opinion of the world, the marginal posi-tion, disclosed in many philosophical constructs itself not given this world, though it means. Personality - is the distance, that expands the space of human existence on earth-heaven vertically or on horizontal of history between the past and the future, or in anthropological terms, external and internal, freedom and determinism. Keywords:Christian anthropology, identity, mask, image, marginal, symbol-ism, reverse perspective, self-identity