No 1 (2010)

Clause is devoted to social-philosophical and culturological aspects of a modern educational situation, the main of which is the humanization of the person as the stabilizing factor of a civil society. A civilization and culture should develop the achievement not in damage to each other, and in interaction, at the account both national-spiritual, and global tendencies, without extremes and dangerous skews in any party.

The conception «historicity» is used both in the theory of history and in the philosophy of history. In XX new impulses to apply this conception was given by historical theology of Germany and philosophy of existentialism. This application furthered to include the conception «historicity» in the philosophy of neo-patristic synthesis. But this inclusion was creative and synthetic borrowing. The synthesis is that George Florovsky re-comprehends a meaning of the conception «historicity» in the spirit of the patristic philosophy, extending the vocabulary of the patristic in the sphere of the philosophy of history.

In the article is analyzed N. Makiavelli's political philosophy as a natural product of epoch of Renaissance; established the interrelation of a policy, economy, civil societies and virtues; showed the importance of Makiavelli's creativity for an establishment of a mode of civil society in Europe. Thus the author aspired to overcome extreme and unilateral treatments and estimations of creativity of the well-known Florentine.