Ideas and Ideals
September 25, 2026
Tatiana Kalnitskaia
The article analyzes the psychologization of Western esotericism through the intellectual biography and oeuvre of Israel Regardie (1907–1985). Addressing the need to reconceptualize the boundaries between magical and scientific discourses in modern culture, the study draws on theoretical frameworks from leading scholars of esotericism (W. Hanegraaff, E. Asprem, M. Pasi, C. Partridge) and...
Ideas and Ideals
September 25, 2026
Irina A. Gerasimova
The article develops the theme of rationality at the border of expressibility. The Indian doctrine of the four levels of speech (vaikhari, madhyama, pashyanti, para-vak) is considered in the context of mythological, philosophical and religious ideas of the East, West, and Ancient Rus’. The author highlights the common features of historically different teachings. The ontological interpretation...
Ideas and Ideals
June 25, 2026
M. Rushenko
It is generally accepted that Lucien Levy-Bruhl not only developed James Frazer’s idea of two laws of sympathetic magic by combining them into the law of participation, but also, in opposition to the evolutionary anthropological concept of phylogenetic intellectual development, formulated a sociological concept of a collective drive to seek animistic causality (mystical mentality), which...
Ideas and Ideals
June 25, 2026
L. Zhukov
The article analyzes science as a specific way of overcoming uncertainty, understood as a fundamental condition for the emergence of meaning, consciousness, and cognitive activity. Uncertainty is treated as a limiting state that precedes forms of distinction and structuring of experience and serves as a source of semantic structures and cognitive orientations. The methodological framework is...
Ideas and Ideals
December 24, 2025
N. Kanaeva
The specificity of Indian epistemic culture is the inclusion of mystical intuition among cognitive abilities, and the absence of the concept of reason as the highest cognitive ability. In Indian traditional religio-philosophical texts intuition, often referred to as mystical experience, was used by default. In the philosophical works of Aurobindo Ghosh (1872–1950), its epistemological status is...
Ideas and Ideals
September 26, 2025
K. Golikov
This article evaluates the limitations of an exclusively rational approach to comprehending reality, emphasizing that true understanding often extends far beyond logic and rests on irrational, absurd, random, and unpredictable elements. From the standpoint of the rational–irrational dichotomy, the paper offers a brief overview of key cultural-historical periods and the contemporary situation....
Ideas and Ideals
December 25, 2023
Vlada Belimova
The analysis of the dialogue between the world’s philosophical cultures in recent years has been focused on the study of a special space “inter”, or “interspace”, which can be regarded as a metaphor of the “meeting place” of different cultures and approaches. Therefore, understanding the way this space is organized, its laws and principles is a precondition for the interaction of cultures and...
Ideas and Ideals
September 28, 2023
Viktoria G. Lysenko
For traditional Indian philosophy, which tends to establish its identity on the basis of the rationally incognizable Absolute (Ātman, Brahman), the verbal expressibility of the latter is one of the central issues. In fact, what is at stake here, is an attitude to language, trust or distrust in its capacity to be a tool for transmitting the experience of reality, which for the Indian tradition...
Ideas and Ideals
June 28, 2023
Pavel Opolev
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The development of biology stimulates a naturalistic turn within the framework of philosophy, actualizes the problem of the dialogue between philosophical and scientific knowledge. In modern philosophy there is a tendency to imitate the empirical sciences. An attempt to conceptualize the empirical knowledge accumulated in modern brain sciences finds its expression within the neurophilosophy...
Ideas and Ideals
December 27, 2022
O. Novikova, I. Rodicheva
The practical methods of studying Zen, known as ‘pure zazen’ and the ‘koan method’ of the Buddhist schools of Rinzai and Soto are subjected to comparative analysis. This study focuses on the comprehension of Zen philosophy, and also analyzes the basic attitudes regarding the difference from the old Buddhist schools in Japan: practical activity, self-improvememt and indifference to death come...
Ideas and Ideals
September 29, 2022
Galina Petrova, Nikolai Tarabanov
The purpose of the article is to substantiate the hypothetically expressed proposition that Dostoevsky in his work proposed for comprehension and understanding of the problem of man and consciousness such ideas that (and this is the performative potential of his philosophy) received theoretical conceptualization only in the XX-XXI centuries. We are talking primarily about his foreshadowing of...
Ideas and Ideals
March 25, 2022
O. Tsvetkova
The article analyzes the development of the ideas of Ludwig Binswanger in the early works of Michel Foucault. The transformation of the basic concepts of Dasein-analysis by M. Foucault leads him to the idea of a human as a dreamer being, and a dream as a way of understanding the ontological foundations of human existence. The article reveals M. Foucault’s idea of the predominance of dreaming...
Ideas and Ideals
December 27, 2021
Daniil A. Balovnev
The article is devoted to one of the most relevant problems of modern philosophy, the philosophy of consciousness in light of the latest discoveries of neurobiology. The most poorly studied aspects; the problem of free will, the problem of consciousness of the animal world and the problem of psychophysical parallelism are considered in this article. Some ethical and ideological issues related...
Ideas and Ideals
December 23, 2020
Andrew V. Paribok, R. Pskhu
This article aims to clarify two traditions of understanding time, namely the rationalistic, which includes the scientific (in the West, going back to the ‘Physics’ of Aristotle) and philosophical (going back in the West to Augustine), and mystical (the most methodically sustained is the Yogic tradition of Classical India and Sufism). The article contains several sections: Introduction raises...