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In this paper the problem of non-being in the light of poststructuralist critics of the figure of presence is investigated. The major assumption of consideration of this problem becomes recognition of strong correlation between being and thinking, and also between thinking and representation in frames of the western metaphysics.

In  this  article  is  investigated  the  problem  of  a  parity  of  true  and  creativity.  It  is  shown,  that  interpretation  of  true  depends  on  character  of  understanding  and  realization  of  a  principle  of  freedom  which  mastering  is  a  necessary  condition  of  development  of  creative  potential  at  the  person. 

This article is about the investigation of temporological foundations of the philosophical conception of Taoism. The main religions and philosophical treatises of Taoism are under analysis in this aspect. Tao and Te are interpreted as two fundamental Temporological characteristics. Tao defines the temporology of the event of realizing of being, and Te defines the temporology of presence of already realized being.

In the article the author considers cognitive interest as a problem of cognition that deals with a subjective side analysis of cognitive activity. The article represents the problem of cognition and interest correlation worked by J. Habermas. Cognitive interest is regarded as a unigue personal relation to the world. There had been regarding the definition of «cognitive interest» and defining the characteristic features of cognitive interest. The subject has both theoretical and practical importance. 

The article is devoted to the analysis of the influence of the ideology of transhumanism on gender self-identification. The values of transhumanism are very successfully institutionalized in modern, especially Western, society, and this process is fraught with serious threats to human being. In the process of analyzing this phenomenon, the author comes to the conclusion that the result of such institutionalization often becomes gender dysphoria, when a person can not fully accept his gender status of a man or a woman.

The article considers various approaches to understanding the semiotic potential of tourist space as an object of construction. It is revealed that the main element of the semiotic potential is a tourist attraction, which in case of its consideration in a single “optical system” with a body of narrative accompaniment (object and cluster narratives) can be represented as a multi-level semiotic structure (metastructure). The integrity of the meta-image consists in the ordering of text narratives, coordination with semiotic markers.

The article considers knowledge and information from the point of view of influence on human life, the role of knowledge in the modern world. Various approaches of understanding knowledge and information, differentiation of concepts of information society and knowledge society are considered. It is suggested that pseudo-knowledge is a stepping stone to the emergence of fundamental knowledge and is part of its development. Man in the modern era receives a huge amount of information, which leads him to “information shock”.

This article is devoted to the research of the problem of the interconnection of consciousness, self-consciousness and spirit in the works of representatives of nonclassical philosophy. The subject of the study is the reflection of the concepts “I” and “spirit” in the writings of representatives of nonclassical philosophy. First of all, the work analyzes different, sometimes diametrically opposed, views of representatives of nonclassical philosophy on the interconnection of the concepts “spirit” and “I”.

The research focus of the publication is the theory of the “Black Swan” of the modern philosopher N. Taleb, which is considered in the context of the risky measurement of society. “Black Swans” – events that have extremely low predictability, in terms of their impact, can dramatically transform the world. Today, the society is filled with extremely unpredictable events, which make its development as vague as possible.

The article considers the ontological significance of the Eucharistic theology by S. Bulgakov, as it is presented in his works «Christ in the world» (1940). The author considers some prerequisites for development of this type of ontology in the framework of biblical Revelation about the creation of the world. The obstacles to building an adequate ontology of creation and incarnation in the traditional European metaphysics, since the latter is based on platono-Aristotelian model of the Cosmos is self-sufficient. This work of S. N.