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Ideas and Ideals

ISSN 2075-0862

4 papers in the library · publishing 2022-2025

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“Geography of Rationality” in the World Ocean of the Irrational

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....

Dialogue between Buddhism and Science: from the Hard Issues about Consciousness to the Study of the Phenomenon of Tukdam Postmortem Meditation

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...

The Problem of Expressibility of the Inexpressible: Speech-Sound, Consciousness and Reality in Indian Thought

Ideas and Ideals September 28, 2023 Viktoria 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...

Dreaming Man in the Phenomenology of Madness by Michel Foucault

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...