Confucianism

This article represents a specific cross-cultural dialogue in a space of modern global world. We have formulated the conclusion that the dialogue of cultures nowadays is a condition of mankind’s selfpreservation.

The article investigates the relationship between the philosophy of Confucius and «global ethics». It is emphasized that the fundamental Confucian principles coincide with the important moral and ethical installations of «world ethos». 

Culture represents a social phenomenon if we regard it from the point of its material and spiritual values, and education is a dedicated social sphere of ideal existence, related to the subject. Within its own history, education develops in such a direction and in such a force as it has the intention defining the message, aim, reflexive intentional orientation at this aspect. It is education that may reveal intentionality of consciousness: to single out the acts of thinking and their content.

The article discusses the problem of the worldview foundations of intercultural dialogue between Russia and China at the turn of XXI century. The author analyzes the dynamic of development of philosophical processes in Russia and China at the beginning of XXI century. The article is focused at the omnidirectional vectors of various trends that appear in the continuum of philosophical cultures of these countries.