Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University Philosophy and Conflict Studies
2026
Elmira S. Lazarenko
This article examines Mahayana philosophy as an integral worldview system possessing a high transformative potential in the context of shaping the spirituality of the “new human being.” The study employs qualitative research methods, particularly focus group discussions and expert interviews conducted with practitioners and scholars from six countries: Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan,...
Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University Philosophy and Conflict Studies
2026
Oksana A. Somova
The article aims to clarify the concept of naivety as it is presented in the works of Georges Bachelard. Although this concept is frequently mentioned, it has not yet been clearly defined. The significance of this research lies in its connection to antagonistic phenomena such as naive science and the naive image in poetry, which are system-forming elements of Bachelard’s philosophical project....
Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University Philosophy and Conflict Studies
2026
Anastasia A. Zhudina
This article offers a critical analysis of D. I. Dubrovsky’s informational theory of conscious ness, which claims to solve the hard problem. At the center of the theory is the idea that consciousness is a special kind of information, instantiated in the brain but subjectively perceived “in pure form”, without reference to the physical properties of neural processes. The paper examines the core...
Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University Philosophy and Conflict Studies
2024
Nur S. Kirabaev
The author notes that rationality stemmed out of external logic devoid of value meanings and human dimensions. In medieval philosophy the concept of reason was considered as consisting of sensory, discursive, and moral components. The principles of rationalization in alGhazali’s (1058–1111) are considered in the article as philosophical ‘theology’ that underlie the understanding and cognition...
Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University Philosophy and Conflict Studies
2023
Eugene V. Afonasin
The tendency to historicity is an important tendency in the modern history of philosophy. Hence a question: to which extend the treatises of Hermetic corpus seem to us historical, and properly connected with Egypt? Is it possible, taking into account the universal and mystical character of these texts, nevertheless to identify in them some elements, which would allow us to understand...
Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University Philosophy and Conflict Studies
2020
Georgy S. Levit, Uwe Hossfeld
Theodor Ziehen was a prominent German psychiatrist and psychologist and a marginal philosopher of the first half of the 20th century who developed an exotic subjective-idealistic theory based on quasi-empirical psychological arguments. Although Ziehen was seen by contemporaries (most prominently by Vladimir Lenin) as a representative of the same philosophical current (empirio-criticism) as Mach...