No 1 (2013)

The article gives an analysis of the relation between freedom and rationality in the work of F.W.J. Schelling in the time between 1800 and 1810. The author argues that Schelling’s understanding of the concept of freedom in context of his identity philosophy is not so due to his reception of Platonism as to his reflection on various problems of the theory of transcendental ideal in Kant’s “Critic of pure reason”, at first on the problem of conditions for the possibility of the predicative form of propositions which Schelling interprets as a basic form of any rationality.

The article focuses on some philosophical aspects of theocosmogony in Egyptian texts of Amarna time (XIV century B.C), especially in the so called “Great Hymn to Aten”, one of the most famous Egyptian religious texts of New Kingdom. The author offers historical and philosophical approach to analyzing the problem of creation in Egyptian pre-philosophic and religious thought in the time of the famous “heretic king” Akhenaten and his successors.

The article covers the historical and philosophical analysis of Philosophy in Moscow ecclesiastical academe in the XIX-th century. The range of topics is actual problems of Philosophy teaching development in Moscow ecclesiastical academe in the XIX-th century, the specifics of ecclesiastical-academic Philosophy, its theoretical prerequisites.

The article based on Vasily Rosanov’s writings of various periods makes the conclusion that his philosophy must be understand not as «pansexualism», but as the continuation of Russian thought with it’s traditions of heart love, pity, nonviolence, goodness to every human being.

This work represents the attempt of systematization of Frank's views on the philosophy of Nietzsche. In this article we examine the interpretation of the ideas of the German thinker proposed by Russian philosopher in the article «F. Nietzsche and the ethics of love to the furthest». The purpose of this small research is to identify the continuity of Frank’s views and of Nietzsche’s philosophy.

Transhumanism and biokonservatizm — two extreme philosophical positions about the prospects for the development of cognitive technologies. They opposed the position, based on the idea that the reproduction of the universal relationships between man and the world is a form of consciousness, which is called “the mystery”. Mystery sets the boundaries of “knowable — unknowable” in specific historical circumstances. Mystery has a binary (cognitive and value-affective) structure.

This article analyzes the development of a new information reality and its reflection in contemporary Russian philosophy. Substantiates the view of information reality as a special kind of reality. In social terms, the concepts of “information reality” and “information society” are getting closer to each other. In matters of the Information Society, Russia lags behind developed countries. However, in the philosophical understanding of what is happening Russia is not inferior compared to the West. Russian scientists have formulated several deep and original concepts of the information society. The analysis of them is an important part of this article.