With the rapid advancement of science and technology in the early 21st century, the idea of improving human morality through various technological means emerged in Western scientific discourse. This idea subsequently acquired the stable name ‘moral enhancement’. One of the key arguments in support of this idea was the thesis of humanity’s inability to adequately utilize the achievements of...
The spiritual correspondence of St. Theophan with O. S. Burachok, E. A. Arnoldi, N. V. Elagin, and the Kugushevs family gives us extraordinary examples of pastoral ascetics. St. Theophan, from the standpoint of Hesychast spiritual practice, mentors the laymen, gradually introducing them to spiritual practice, each in his own measure. Another example of St. Theophan’s pastoral ascetics is...
The epistemological possibilities of man are one of the important questions of theology. In the Sacred Tradition of the Eastern Church, man’s ability to mystical knowledge is affirmed, i.e., to direct knowledge of God, not mediated by either aesthetic observation of the external world or introspective observation of the inner world of the soul. The task of separating the normative mystical...
Elucidation of the connection between brain activity and consciousness is an urgent problem in neurobiology and philosophy of consciousness. The complexity of this problem is due to fundamentally different properties of physical processes and subjective phenomena. Neurophysiological studies have shown that subjective phenomena are associated with synchronous electrical activity of neural...