Philosophical horizons

13-24

Authors: V. Popov

The expression «second navigation» (Plato) is often used to label speculative knowledge. On the basis of this metaphorical analogy one might create an original discourse of the history of ancient philosophy. In this case, the identification crises of this civilization become the ground of periodization, and a new philosophical reflection is treated as a means of overcoming them at each stage. This reflection becomes the basis of the concepts of identity for Pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Neo-Platonists. Keywords: «the second navigation», agonality, an identity crisis, identity, Self, identity, speculation, cosmos, anti-cosmologism, Weltwende (fracture of the ages).

34-46

Authors: V.G. Polovnikov

The article is about sensualist theory of knowledge in philosophy of Berkeley. Polygraphologycal and filmmaking are using as an illustration of paradoxicalness of visual and sensible human sensations. Key-words: sensualist theory, polygraphology, filmmaking, visual sensation,sensible sensation.

60-68

Authors: V. Dudchenko

Within the article turns the place of spiritual values in the structure of national identity, analyzed the value processes of modern Ukrainian society and their relationship with the formation of national identity, defined the priority directions of the state policy formation and the development of spiritual values of Ukrainian society at the present stage of the creation of the state. Key words: values, spiritual values, national identity, national values, world view values of orientation, creation of the state.

80-90

Authors: I. Karivets, Z. Kudlyk.

In this article the authors consider the ways of overcoming of the ecological crisis. The ecological crisis is a consequence of wider crisis, i.e. the crisis of awareness, that a human being is a part of nature. The authors analyze ancient Greek philosophy of Physis and Arche, Merleau-Ponty’s ecophenomenology and Heidegger’s “ecological mysticism” in order to show the particularities of ecological thinking, which reveals the fundamental unity of human being and nature. Keywords: arche, deep ecology, ecological awareness, ecophenomenology, co-evolution, physis

101-110

Authors: A.P. Guzhva

Investigates the origins of European symphonic, which combine the attitude of antiquity to the religious attitude later ages. Keywords: art, symphonic thinking, symbol, symphony, spiritual culture, being, rhetoric.

118-127

Authors: N.V. Ponomarenko

We investigate the multiplicity of forms of experience. The boundaries of experience are defined, the role of character in establishing the unity of experience is addressed. The symbolic aspects of thinking which are opened in the activities provide an opportunity to understand the indissoluble unity of thought, language and action. Keywords: existence, character, value, interpretant, personality, experience, transcendency.

139-153

Authors: V.N. Shapoval

In article sights of the most known Russian philosophers of the end XIX — the beginnings of XX centuries on eschatological problems, the analysis and an estimation of a condition of the social and spiritual processes occurring in society in the period of crisis, and also modern connotation eschatology are considered. Keywords: eschatology, crisis, culture, person, spirituality, God.

163-174

Authors: M. Movchan

The article is sanctified to the analysis of fear as important phenomenon in the culture of Kyiv Rus. The certain types of fears are shown in life of different layers of population of the Russian state Key words: fear before forces of nature, fear of impure force, fear before a ritual impurity, fear to lose power, fear Divine.

184-191

Authors: V. Кavalerov

The paper investigates the problem of individualization of education in the context of a knowledge society. Determined that one of the driving forces of transformation processes is the change in social relations, including the emergence of new values. Keywords: education, innovation, society, values.