Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1819-7671 (Print)
ISSN 2542-1948 (Online)


philosophical anthropology

The rehabilitation of practical philosophy in contemporary culture

Introduction. Practical philosophy is most often developed in the form of a study of tradition and its history. The article attempts to explicate the understanding of the practical based on contemporary culture. Theoretical analysis. The loss of reference points and the reduction of the ideal of self-realization to egocentric forms is a problem of contemporary societies. Contemporary axiological, teleological, moral, etc. crises cannot be overcome by restoring one of the historical versions of practical philosophy.

Russian Pilgrimage in the system of cultural and anthropological code

Introducton. The article examines the social institution of pilgrimage as a phenomenon of the Russian cultural code in its evolution and formation of the tradition of social practice. Theoretical analysis. The author uses both the methodology of cultural research and the approaches of the sociology of knowledge, philosophical-anthropological and civilizational analysis for a holistic understanding of the wandering phenomenon.

Philosophical Anthropology of G. S. Batishhev: Conception of «Ascenting Man»

The author considers the specifics of G. S. Batishchev’s philosophy as a non-classic anthropology. The concept of «profound communication» is considered to be the fundamental principle of the relation of a person with other people, the world and the God. It has been given reason that the dialogical principle has achieved the entire development in G. Batishchev’s works. It has been shown that characteristic property of «religious» dialogue is its vertical cutoff and a presence of the “universal” ontological coordinate in dialogue, which is the God.

The eventuality of human philosophy in the risk society

Introduction. The article is devoted to the analysis of the eventuality of philosophy in the risk society through the anthropological consideration of the concepts of uncertainty, possibility, unpredictability, infi nity. The main diffi culty in risk analysis is that risk lies between rational and irrational, between certainty and uncertainty, between possibility and reality. Theoretical analysis.