Abstract: In his column the editor-in-chief discusses spiritual culture of the society and its elements. The author defines spirituality as one’s ability to experience high feelings, adore the depth and power of human thought, feel love for his Motherland and create and put into life his ideals. At the same time, spiritual culture of the society consists of such elements as our values and relics.

Keywords: philosophy, culture, society, spirituality, spiritual culture of the society, values, relics.

Abstract: The author of the article reveals the contents of the political culture and analyzes its interpretation approaches which have formed in the political science lately. The author proves the thesis that political culture is a form of social and actually existing culture. The article describes the main types of political culture and based on that, forms the law of existence of political culture.

Keywords: philosophy, politics, political culture, individual culture, social culture, political activity, political behavior, technology of policy formation, democratic political culture, authoritarian political culture.

Abstract: Virtual anthropological way of thinking is typical both for culture beams and anthropologist. Based on that, the ethics of a field (ethnographic) research is being created. Empirical facts are organized by the genre. Philosophy gives an anthropologist the logic of hermeneutical means as well as the vector of humanitarian expertise.

Keywords: philosophy, constants, thoughtform, understanding, virtual world, theatrical effectiveness, topography, fact, anthropologist.

Abstract: The article studies the conception of a famous French anthropologist Rene Girard about the nature of violence as a social phenomenon and ways of its transformation in the primitive society, in particular, during the transfer from barbarianism to civilization. Generally accepting this conception, the author yet notes that there is the logic ‘error of the circle’: transformation of violence creates the conception thinking. The latter is the condition for understanding the malignancy of violence for the survival of the primitive society.

Keywords: philosophy, violence, society, conception, phenomenon, civilization, transformation.

Abstract: The article describes what Veda’s authors thought about cosmogenesis and analyzes the dynamics of their views. The author of the article shows how the picture of cosmogenesis successively moved from anthropomorphous to biomorphic and physiomorphic models. It is shown that the very first cosmology already formed the main topics of the future cosmology concerning fundamental features of the Universe — the beginning, genesis, structure, sources of dynamics and human as an element of the world. The author studies peculiarities of cosmological way of thinking of archaic people, methods and techniques of that type of thinking and the strategy of the Universe history knowledge that remains even nowadays. All these factors are described from the point of view of their development and role for the modern cosmological thinking. The article suggests new interpretations of a few extremely complicated but very informative images — Universal demiurges who are being analyzed from epistemological point of view.

Keywords: philosophy, Universe, cosmogenesis, primary reality, paradigm, model, cosmogonic ideas, method, fiction, polyvariability.

Abstract: The problem of the correlation between culture as the form and the result of human activity is closely connected with evaluation of the objective side. Objective side can be viewed both as the ‘form’ and the’ result’ which is shown in the very first definition of culture as the form of human activity and as the objective result of that activity. The author describes the objective approach by analyzing culture and consciousness built on the principles of upward reflection (from the object to the sign, from the sign to the symbol, from the symbol to extremely universal signs). If we view the process of activity, any objective element of culture is designed, in this way or another, to serve as the mean of its actualization (stimulation, programming, realization, physical life sustaining and etc.) and thus be included in the term ‘form of activity’.

Keywords: philosophy, culture, object, symbol, sign, extremely universal signs, objectivity, activity, crisis, development, formation, systemacity.

Abstract: The purpose of his article is to cast light on the most significant conceptions of the ritual in modern foreign science. The author of the article views Stael’s conception about ‘meaningless’ of the ritual, epistemology of the ritual in Bell’s works, ethological theory of the ritual suggested by Rappaport, Grimes’ conception about the social role of the ritual. The study is based on original monographs of the above mentioned scientists. Summarizing the experience of ritual researches, the author of the article makes the following conclusion. Works by famous modern theorists in the sphere of rituals have something in common — all of these scientists understand that rituality, being taken as the element of everyday reality, is one of the most powerful mechanisms of coping with the shock and catastrophes of both social, political and economic origins. The conclusions and data provided in the article can be used as the basis for further researches of the theory of ritual and history of modern social and philosophical thought.

Keywords: philosophy, ritual, theory of the ritual, ethology, semiotics of the ritual, anthropology, traditions, modernity, foreign science, research of rituals.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the correlation between such terms as the Russian idea and Russian global project under the conditions of globalization. The author of the article discusses the essence of the modern Russian elite and its attitude towards the Western global project.

Keywords: philosophy, globalization, western global project, cultural and historical types, information internet wars, global cabal, Russian idea, Russian global project.

Abstract: Modern age is marked with intensive qualitative changes in human sexuality — extensive sexualization of many spheres of the society and culture, on the one hand, and desexualization of intimate areas of the human. Due to this, sexuality needs a new method of assessment. In order to understand the current state of the sexuality, it would be interesting to look upon the problem from all sides — as a phenomenon at the joint of philosophy and psychoanalysis, the two vectors of thoughts and views. The first vector of philosophical and psychoanalytical research would be the analysis of peculiarities of modern culture and society forming sexuality of the modern human, from the point of view of their morphogenetic and structural factors, with the focus on new phenomena which has arisen only recently: narcissism, dissolution of sexual differentiation, feminization, trans-sexuality, annihiliation of sexuality and many others. The second aspect of the research is the qualitative characteristics that determine specifics of sexual identity of a modern human: narcissistic androgyny, trans-sexuality, aleksisexuality, perversity and plurality of genders, hypersublimation.

Keywords: philosophy, psychoanalysis, sexuality, culture, antique times, androgyny, narcissism, transsexuality, sublimation.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the main issues of ethic mentality of traditional Circassians that has been formed under the influence natural, historical and economic factors, the latter are being realized in traditional ethics and moral reference standards of behavior. Based on the results of the survey conducted among young people, the author of the article describes the structure of mentality of modern Circassians.

Keywords: cultural studies, Circassians, ethic, mentality, national, character, self-identification, reference standards, structure, culture.

Abstract: The article describes the definition and place of innovations in management. The author describes the ways of implementation of these innovations in management practice and underlines the importance of this issue at a modern stage of development of the modern society. The article also contains examples from experience of civic organizations.

Keywords: philosophy, innovations, organization, management, production, culture, society, human, perspectives.

Abstract: Research of new religious movements is thought to be one of the most topical and significant issues both in philosophy, culture and pure theory because it touches upon the fundamental issues of religious studies. According to the author, it is necessary to criticize one-sided, subjective approaches to interpretation of the nature and socio-cultural role of new religious movements typical for apologists of religious innovations as well as their confessional opposition teaching traditional religions. Special attention is paid at the methodology of religious researches.

Keywords: philosophy, culture, religion, religious studies, methodology, innovation, religious sect, cult, new religious movements, traditional religions.

Abstract: The article makes an attempt to show the interaction between self-sufficient scientific disciplines — philosophy, art and culture, - within the framework of artistic communication as the common apostille with clearly expressed values and meaning. Traditional approach to philosophy as the system of values and standards of human collective and individual existence is complemented with another interpretation: philosophy is viewed as a socio-cultural system that, by the means of art and culture, forms super reality oriented at a clear balance of the good and the evil, life and death, movement and stagnation (but not their opposition as it is viewed traditionally). Artistic communication is some kind of an apostille that becomes typical for philosophy, art and culture at the end of the 19th — 20th centuries.

Keywords: philosophy, apostille, communication, symbols, art, culture, reality, life, everyday life, society.

Abstract: The review of the five books of selected works ‘Bioethics and Humanitarian Expertise’ was started with the purpose to summarize relevant researches over the past 4 hours and provide a prospect of grounds, approaches, methods and applications of humanitarian expertise. The author of the article gives a classification of scientists’ positions on the matter taking into account the historical aspect — genesis and evolution of relevant researches. Along with theoretical insights the author also describes practical examples of humanitarian expertise in different spheres of activity.

Keywords: philosophy, humanitarian expertise, method, bioethics, interdisciplinarity, object, item, purposes and procedures, risks and consequences, moral, politics, technologies.