No 2 (2014)

In the article analyses L.P. Karsavin’s concept of a person in his philosophy of history. Opens the specificity of Karsavin’s understanding of a person in the framework of Vl. Solovyov’s All-Unity and differences from Berdyaev’s personalism. The author comes to conclusion that Karsavin’s philosophy of history has personalistic character and in it reproduced the most systematic in Russian metaphysics experience of studying and understanding forms and types of personality in history of world and Russian culture.

The article is devoted to the research of the particularity of the phenomena of love in Russian cultural tradition. This phenomena is studied through the prism of Russian folklore, Russian classic literature, romance, secular paintings of the age of Enlightenment and Orthodox art. In this research the author pays particular attention to the judgments of the Russian philosophers abroad: N.A. Berdiaev, I.A. Ilyin, G.P. Fedotov.

Article is devoted to considering the notion of ethical issues in a situation of post-modern philosophizing (with its denying the repeating the identical and accentuation the idea of finding unique situation). The paper focuses on the basis of the ethics of truths of A. Badiou in his theory of the event that assumes the understanding of the man as the subject of approving the ability to overcome the «being-to-death» (that determines the specificity of the subject of ethical inquiry).

In the articles it is considered approaches of contemporary philosophers to the problem of moral dilemmas. It is discussed the character of moral dilemmas, their emotional expressions from the side of the moral choice subject, and the ways of their reconciliation.

The article considers the problem of the difficulty of defining the “global ethos” concept. Some difficulties are arisen from the formal content of this concept and combining in it different characteristics according social action and activity. Such characteristics are connected with values, motives, and heuristics which suggests that ethos is not so much a practical system of value preferences and does not refer to the Ethics as a real and actual things to the proper. Thereforу ethos should be thought as a complex of hierarchic motives, values, interests and manifestations of the rational and irrational. However, the integration and coherence of social activity creates a reason for the emergence of a global ethos.

The article is divided to professional identity of woman. The article analyzes the notion of professional identity in the historical context, social status of a professional related with his or her area; way of professional identity of woman in traditional, industrial and modern society. The result of the research is as follows: professional identity of woman requires to donate not only the traditional role of women in a family, but also to hold opposite values and ideals. As a result it is very difficult for a modern woman to form a complete, non-controversial system of values.

The article is devoted to definition of essence of modern technology, its moral evaluation and defining the place in the structure of the modern civilization. It is noted that the moral evaluation of technics includes its ethical reflection, and also searching for ways out of the crisis generated by the equipment and technogenic civilization.

The article is considered concepts of a goal-setting and motivation within professional activity. These factors are interconnected and are key in professional activity of the subject, in many respects defining its efficiency. In the course of work the subject comprehends «due» within a profession, and it influences its goal-setting and motives not only in professional, but other activity.

The article analyses the role of the moral factor in the international life, a notion and an essence of the international morality, its characteristics in the context of foreign affairs.