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SUMMARIES of some PHILOSOPHICAL ARTICLES after SEMIRA (Shchepanovskaya Elena)

 

The Cosmic Perspective of Mankind after K.E. Tsiolkovsky

The article covers scientific and philosophical ideas of the inventor of rocket engine K.E. Tsiolkovsky, which created the perspective of cosmic exploration. In spite of radical and materialistic features of his theory, it is close to spiritual evolutonary ideas of P.Teilhard de Chardin, the follower of V.I.Vernadsky, and it remains actual as practical prospect of cosmism. The image of "radiant humanity", and a man as explorer going to meet transformation, can be considered as modern ideal, still attractive.  

 

Modern Hindu Schools as a Display of Actual Spiritual Wants

Having a rich heritage of ancient spiritual theories and constantly creating new schools, the culture of India translates them all over the world. In different new Hindu spiritual schools we can find out common features, typical for classic teachings. Their distinction reflects spectrum of actual spiritual needs. The article maintains comparative analysis of the most popular 6 modern Hindu schools ("Society of Krishna Consciousness", Sai-Baba, Integral Yoga of Shri Aurobindo, Dynamic Meditation after Osho Radzhnish, University of Raja-Yoga "Brahmakumaris" and the way of social service of "Ananda Marga"), revealing their pecularities and tendencies of developing.

 

Revealing of the Genesis of Universal Archetypes for studying the Structure of Unconsciousness

For true philosophical and cultorological analysis, disclosure of the universal historical roots of origination of notions seems to be more productive. Exploration of archetypical ideas of the most ancient mythology, as well as revealing deep etymological kinship of senses, became the base of such approach.

Investigating the archetypes origine, we had correlated mythological archetypes with the stages of the evolution of mankind, having spread the notion of the archetype not only to cultural and psychological areas but to social, economical and biological history. Analysis of mythological heritage from evolutionary  point of view proves the existence of common development patterns of mundane mythology. Common logic of thought and succession of forming of the basic human conceptions is manifested.

Archetypical approach can help to solve methodological problem of exactness in humanitarian knowledge. The roots of the philosophical notions manifest universal way of human spiritual development and give the criteria of value of the representations of modern thought.

 

Mythological Archetypes as the Core of National (Ethnic) Mentality

The article represents a new approach to describe pecularity of national mentality. The most universal archetypes of the world mythology, common for all civilisations (12 basic mythologemes are suggested), can be recognized as semantic core of cultures (local civilizations). Such concept of archetype (based on the ideas of symbolic nature of culture and important role of myth in it after E. Kassirer and K. G. Jung) seems to be productive for intercultural understanding and for representation of multiperspectivity of world development and different part of every nation in it.

The approach is displayed by the example of national mentality of Russia, India and China.

 

Eastern Features of Russian Philosophy:

Personality as Manifestation of Cosmic Spirituality

The article displays dominant features of national mentality through analysis of typical ideas and approaches of Russian philosophers. One of such archetypical notions is an appelation to personality, not as to individual (and biological), but as spiritual unit, spreading out of its individual limits to collective and universal. It is motivated not by striving for power, but by aspiring for infinity. The national idea should аccordingly include such motivation.

 

Sоcial Interaction: the Role of Biological Conceptions -

Cultural Myth of Struggle for Existence and Simbiosis as the Main Evolutonary Factor

The article suggests to use the scientific base of biological concept of simbiosis as the main factor of evolution, in order to return to the classical theories of culture — as well as Darvin theory of struggle for surviving was used to refuse of them, showing insufficiency of humanistic values, which yielded to pressure of Nietzschean "will for power" (according Haidegger). Scientific concept of simbiosis, as the base of manifold of life on the Earth and forming of human culture, manifests the onthological status of interpersonal and intercultural communication. It contributes the assertion of notions of cooperation and mutual aid not only as the idealistic values of "due" but materialistic jist of existence, dealing with ideas of altruism and humanism as the guiding line of mankind evolution.

 

       image003 "Medical Discourse of Power and Psychophilosofical Challenges of Oncology"  // an article for the conference "Human existence in the space between health and iIlness as philosophical, ethic and culture problem " at State Saint-Peterburg Unversity in 2017

The article deals with challenge of cancer, when the treatment itself destroying organism plunges a person into diseases. These are the problems of isolation associated with the taboo of death, closure and guilt, psychological assistance and rehabilitation during the treatment and attention to the individuality of a patient.

The discourse of power in medicine (M. Foucault) and bureaucracy of the pipeline of health care aggravates the problems, produces disease as a product of it (A. Sekatskii), being focused mainly on the financial system (that leads to a shortage of doctors and queues, detrimental to the health). Human benchmark, as a possible way to exit from this critical situation, is the cooperation of the doctor and the patient (consulting physician to the sick).

 

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