No 3 (2012)

The article is devoted to the analysis of Chinese philosopher Hu Shih's view on the philosophy of Confucius. First of all analyzed the Hu Shih's attempt to find in thoughts of ancient Chinese philosopher the logical methodology based on combinatorial ideas of "Book of Changes" (I Ching). In the article is showed aspiration of Hu Shih to lead conceptions of different schools of Chinese philosophy to common conceptual field.

This paper aims to show that the problem of personal identity is a fundamental question not only in a Buddhist tradition but in Western philosophy too. The author discovers a notion of "witnessing" includes all kinds of conscious experience, perception and thought. Through the distinction itself and the rest of the world as the relationship between Subject and Object author shows a lack of Western point of view and subtly draws the subject of Theravada Buddhism, which in the opinion, Matulyak A.V. incorporates perspective of the eternal question: Who am I? What is my self? The author gently introduces a Buddhist text, giving the opportunity to touch the methodological foundations of Gotama, the Buddha. The author very interesting shows her point of view, engaging in a process of seeing the situation. Gradual reveals the evolution of views between Subject and Object in the light of the Buddhist doctrine of anatta (no - self). The article was written at a high conceptual level, and the apparent intertwining of Western philosophy and the philosophy of Theravada Buddhism, indicates exceptional character of the object - witnessing and the need to continue this investigations.

The article bids to analyze the semantic concept of soul as a category of special rational method of Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi. The article concludes that the traditional levels of the world's Soul and Mind are closer in al-Tawhidi's works as the ratio and irrational mind in it are more related as well.

This article is devoted to the stage of primary reception of pragmatism in Russian philosophical culture. The author is focused on the founder of the "imaginary logic" N. A Vasiliev (1880-1940), who attempted to describe and identify the essence of the pragmatism. It's interesting for us as historians of philosophical ideas because by 1908 pragmatism has taken various forms and captured the minds of European (and Russian) intellectual community.

The article focuses on some philosophical aspects of comparative analysis of ancient Egyptian and Greek thought, such as a question of the possibility of Egyptian influence in Hesiod's "Theogony" and attempts of the historical and philosophical analysis of categories "Maat" and "Dike" in modern Egyptology and Classical Studies, particularly in the papers of V.A. Tobin, J. Assmann, C.A. Faraone, E. Teeter, M. Bernal.

The article concentrates on the comparative study of the notions of love represented by two medieval authors Marguerite Porete and Thomas Aquinas. Marguerite's unique and refreshing interpretation of God-human relationship in her treatise «The Mirror of Simple Souls» gives us a new insight to the medieval understanding of the nature of love, while Thomas Aquinas represents in his scholastic works a perfect illustration to the natural philosophy of love based on Aristotle's psychology. Analyzing different kinds and levels of love in the works of both thinkers, the author of this article intends not only to highlight the similarities and differences between them, but also to reconstruct their philosophical background and argumentation.

The article gives an outline of the complicity and multidimensionality of the modern period of the globalization process in terms of the philosophical analysis. The author reveals the contradictions and defects of the global processes and puts a topic on the social development models which could be alternative to the globalization.

The article analysis current views of notion, essence and structure of professional ethics. The article also considers main categories and problems of ethics and its correlation with general theory of morals.

The paper deals with the philosophical work of Yamunacarya, who was a founder of vishishishta-advaita system philosophy. This text is preserved fragmentally and was reconstructed and translated by American and Indian researchers. The common information is given in the introductory article and commentaries on the Russian translation of the Sanskrit text.