Events of the first decades of the XXI century. confirm the subjectivity of Ukraine, open the way to a civilizational choice. According to S. Pirozhkov, this is the intention to implement one's own, rather than externally imposed, development strategies.

The survival of humanity is in the realm of the spirit. Until a sound source of human spirit is identified, discussions of spiritual well-being are moot. Spirituality is a term that is increasingly used, abused, in everyday speech and many publications.

The rationale for the idea that the general course of the cyclical dynamics of society according to the concept of Kondratieff and Chizhevsky does not contradict the synergistic vision of social evolution since it includes nonlinearity and stochasticity.

Consideration of temporal constructions of modern German as a means of temporal interpretation of sentences. List of temporal constructions of modern German, which include finitive temporal constructions. Analysis of the syntax of temporal constructions.

Most people feel on occasion that life is absurd. Yet the reasons usually offered in defense of this conviction are patently inadequate: they could not really explain why life is absurd. Why then they provide a natural expression for the sense that it is?

Roman Ingarden's contribution in to philosophical phenomenology there is an important area which covers the problems of aesthetics. His works have been published mainly in the Polish language. Biography Roman Ingarden and his scientific activities.

The translation of the second chapter of O. Brenifier's book "The Art of Philosophical Practice", in which the author considers the meanings of philosophizing from the point of view of his "practical" dimension. Synthesis of philosophical attitudes.

Return to the integration of sociological, normative approaches to science. Rejection of the political component of Marxism. Scrupulous discussions between Lakatos and Feyerabend. A model of combining the history of science and its normative evaluation.

The transcendental or aggregate theory of matter, as it is developed by the commentators out of the writings of Leibniz, combines elements analogous to the ideas of Plato and the atoms of Democritus; it is Platonic in that the monads are eternal forms.

The comparison of Wittgenstein’s and Heidegger’s views on the world picture. Analysis of the initial approaches to the next concept. The value of the picture of the world for cognitive research and its role in the formation of the knowledge system.

The peculiarities of the cosmological senses, which exist in ascetic doctrine. Interpretation ofworld’s beauty, order and harmony by representatives of ascetic culture of Byzantium. The aesthetics of the asceticism as theocentrical ontology of beauty.

Historical reconstruction of the development philosophy of laughter. The use of the concept of postpositivism as principles of incompleteness and inexhaustibility of the theory. Postmodernism Rizoma as a tool for understanding theories of laughter.

Review of bioethical discourse based on philosophical concepts, doctrines, and religious teachings regarding the value of life. The role of the discourse of I. Kant, representatives of the phenomenological direction in philosophical anthropology.

The overview concludes with deliberations on perspectives of the field in Russia, where a significant corpus of studies of engineering has been accumulated - yet, philosophy of engineering is not institutionalized, and remains an exotic label.

Philosophical defenses against theory of the end of art. The relationship between philosophy and art. The difference between the end of art and "the death of painting". The logic of imitation — and the differences between Hegel's views on the end of art.

Characteristic of the abortion issue as is one of the biggest unsettled issue in practical ethics. Definition of abortion and infanticide as are actions of the same moral order. Familiarization with the content of the problem of the Thomson argument.

Domination, power and authority are basic arguments in Machiavelli's philosophy. Lao-Tzu's concept about leadership and moral behavior which focused on freedom and enlightenment. Leader's position on generosity and miserliness, achievement proper balance.

The hermeneutical critique of husserlian idealism. The assumption of the philosophical interpretation of the phenomenology. Kinship between the ante-predicative phenomenology and that of hermeneutics. The coincidence of intuition and explication.

The genesis of the relationship between peace and war in the development of the social world. Formation of the tradition of its understanding. Dominance of the theocentric position. Modernism, industrial institutionalization, dominance of information.

The culturological twist in modern science and practical activities implies the clarification of the essence of culture. Turning to the history of the philosophical thought, it is possible to trace the transformation of the understanding of culture.

The analysis of the paradoxes of the concept of human integrity, developed in the researches of V. Shinkaruk and M. Bulatov in the 1980's. The categories of dialectics of integrity and their essential paradoxes as special anthropological phenomena.

A renewal of concern with some of the philosophical questions revolving about Leibnitz`s doctrine of the identity of indiscernibles. A version of the principle of the identity of indiscernibles which is perhaps its most plausible interpretation.

Theoretical understanding of the Husserlian model of the constitution of time modes, clarification of the possibilities of interpretation of its provisions in the reconstruction of the concept of anthropic time. Solving the problem of temporality.

To analyze the meaning of L. Wittgenstein's works "Philosophical Studies" and "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" and to determine ways of moving away from the metaphysical use of words. characterization of the possibilities of Wittgenstein's philosophy.

Socrates' demon - the demon against which Socrates always held out and to which Plato would have preferred not to give in: the madness of writing, an infinite, interminable, incessant, and continuous movement. Sade as an immoral writer of the revolution.

Analysis of the main components of the mission of the modern university through the prism of the fundamental philosophical categories of time and space. Studying and characterization of learning as a process of translating knowledge from the past.

Analysis of the Pygmalion myth in the works of Andre-Francois Bouraud-Delland and Jean-Jacques Rousseau as a metaphor for the modern subject, which emphasizes the ambivalence of the age of modernity. Presentations of the mythical consciousness of the subj

The method of definition and counterexample, conflict with the cardinal principle of the philosophy of ordinary language. Preoccupation with definitions of whole systems` technical terms, tends to divert the attention of philosophers such investigation.

The definition of the criterion of cultural and political rights of nations and nationalities in the era of globalization. Philosophical analysis and explanation of the concept of multiculturalism as a synthesis of the ideals of communism and liberalism.

Examines the correlation between such postmodern phenomena as globalization, "massovization" and national economic centrism. It is concluded and analyzed that this is national economic centrism which represents a serious alternative to globalization.