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September 30, 2026
A. Muss
The purpose of the study is to construct a model for the development of the problem of consciousness as the most concise and substantive transition between the texts of “axial” authors. In this article, drawing on philosophical anthropology as a field of knowledge that compares various discourses on the human being and their key properties, an attempt is made to study the development of the...
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July 7, 2026
Elena Alekseevna Okladnikova, Alexander Mikhailovich Prilutskii
The aim of the work is to rethink the sacred functions of shamans with an emphasis on the social functions that shamans/ritualists performed in primitive and then traditional societies, and not only on the mystical content of early forms of religious ideas described by ethnologists and art historians. The article implements a theoretical transfer of the postulates of biopolitics (M. Foucault,...
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June 24, 2026
R. F. Yarullin
The study reconstructs the categorical core of Jacques Waardenburg’s neo‑phenomenology of religion through an analysis of the relation between objective religious facts and subjective meanings. The article examines the concepts of religious fact, subjective meaning, intentionality, the supposed/posited object, faith, context, understanding, and the verification of interpretation, as well as...
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March 25, 2026
Yulia Grigoryevna Matushanskaya
The research aims to identify the attitude toward rationality in Fritz Mauthner’s agnostic mysticism. The article examines the problem of the boundaries of rationality in Mauthner’s works within the context of 19th-20th-century philosophical thought. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that it is the first to analyze Fritz Mauthner’s agnostic mysticism as a distinct direction...
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January 21, 2026
U. Belyaeva
The aim of the research is the philosophical-phenomenological explication and comprehension of the liturgical mode of religious life as a specific form of everyday religious experience. Drawing on the Orthodox tradition, the article clarifies the understanding of liturgy as a mode of religious life, reconstructs the temporal, spatial, bodily-affective, and communicative structures of liturgical...
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February 10, 2025
S. Kukharenko
The aim of the research is to analyze the characteristics of the state of mindfulness in various spiritual traditions. The article examines the description of the state of mindfulness in various spiritual movements, primarily Buddhist ones. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of various terms existing in different religious movements to denote the state of mindfulness. The...
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March 31, 2023
Vitaly Yurievich Yakovlev, Vladimir Nikolaevich Tarkovsky, Nina Vadimovna Perova
The aim of the study is to identify the main cognitive problems of philosophical anthropology in the context of opposition or interaction between the experimental sciences and the humanities. The paper traces the process of formation of the concept of “consciousness” as an alternative to the concept of “soul”; presents introspection as a traditional method of self-consciousness analysis and...
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November 20, 2021
Mark Vladimirovich Shugurov, Olga Viktorovna Kostina
The paper aims to analyze the heuristic potential of the Christian religious and mystical experience comprehension through the subject of culturology. The authors focus on the culturological approach to this experience which is conceptualized as a cultural tradition. Particular attention is paid to the Christian mysticism as spiritual and at the same time cultural heritage. The scientific...
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February 10, 2021
Fedor Alekseevich Stanzhevskiy
The research objectives are as follows: to give an idea of Susan Hurley’s philosophy and to check whether the relevant philosophical problem of mental representation and mental content is non-contradictive. The article criticizes the traditional conception of consciousness, in which cognition is considered as an interface between perception and action, without taking into account interrelation...
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October 21, 2019
Anna Vladimirovna Yaroslavtseva
The article provides a comparative study of the existential functions of two everyday phenomena: altered states of consciousness and morality. If a habitual phenomenon concerns the basics of human existence, the problem of this phenomenon influence on human life, its “existential functions” becomes relevant. To compare the existential functions of altered states of consciousness and ethics,...
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August 19, 2019
Igor’ Vladimirovich Cherepanov
The article discusses the phenomenal and intentional aspects of consciousness. The problem of phenomenal consciousness existence in the physical Universe is stated, since the emergence of non-intentional content contradicts the principle of the epistemological completeness of physics. In this regard, the concepts of representationalism and separatism are compared. Arguments are adduced in...