The article analyzes the final fragment of Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" (Canto XXXIII of "Paradise") in the context of the philosophical assumptions of Dante's doctrine regarding the soul's striving for the highest good. The focus is on the paradoxical coexistence in Dante's thought of two concepts of the ultimate goal of human desire: God as the sum of all goods and man as the source of...
The present study offers a critical revision of the phenomenological approach to intersubjectivity and simultaneously justifies an alternative theoretical optics centered around the concept of the transindividual. The author shows that Husserl's apprehension of the alter ego, which implicitly reproduces Leibniz's monadological logic, encounters fundamental aporetic difficulties. The "Other" in...
The civilization of cognitive technologies is an emerging stage of civilizational development in which artificial cognitive systems replace humans in productive, managerial, and intellectual functions. This raises the question of the irreplaceable role of humans with new urgency. The article investigates the generation of needs as an inalienable civilizational function of humans, which...
This article focuses on the phenomenon of the visionary origins of art as a key factor in the development of creativity among indigenous peoples. The subject of the study is theoretical and empirical data drawn from international anthropological and ethnographic sources documenting the visionary origins of the art of indigenous peoples around the world. The object of the study is the indigenous...
The subject of the study is the mystical experience as a kind of altered states of consciousness. The purpose of the article is to solve at the conceptual level the problem of distinguishing genuine mystical experience and various kinds of surrogate states with quasi-mystical content. The theoretical basis for solving this problem was the study of the panorama of moments of divergence and...