From early infancy, structures are created in engaging with the world. Increasingly complex forms of self, other, and world emerge with shared rhythms, affective patterns and interpersonal routines, cultural norms, concepts and symbols, and so on. These open up an increasing number of possibilities for new kinds and levels of engagement and for further developing a world together. However, these same structures, becoming more rigid, salient, and perhaps reified with time, may obscure or obstruct engagement and constrain development. We explore (...) this paradoxical relationship between structure and openness to engagement and attempt to understand the process of formation and change of structures in self and its relations to the world. (shrink)

On semantics and the process of word-generated knowledge in Hindu philosophy.

On Buddhist philosophies and forecasting.

Haciendo gala de una notable erudición e inspirándose en el pensamiento personalista contemporáneo y en el clásico, el autor de esta obra realiza una original síntesis filosófica que recoge los elementos más esenciales del complejo y fascinante fenómeno religioso.

ʻAyyānī, Yaḥyá ibn Ḥumaydān, ca. 12th century; Muslim scholars; Yemen; views on Islamic philosophy.

Книга - дополненное и переработанное издание Эстетической эпистемологии, опубликованной в 2015 году издательством Palmarium Academic Publishing (Saarbrucken) и Издательским домом Академия (Москва). В работе анализируются подходы к построению эстетической теории познания, проблематика соотношения эстетического и познавательного отношения к миру, рассматривается нестираемая данность эстетического в жизни познания, раскрывается, как эстетическое свойство познающего разума проявляется в кибернетике сознания и искусственного интеллекта. В сферу исследования включается сюжет, способствующий пониманию того, как философия - эта методология души, с одной стороны, и искусство, с другой, ваяют (...) истину, как художественно-философские формирования становятся произведенческими структурами, как эти культурные образования усиливают рельефную форму как того, что есть, так и дополненной реальности. Познание и эстетическое деяние, полагаемые в апоретике, утверждаются вместе, чтобы определить интеллектуальное произведение. Книги на русском языке #ReadRussia. (shrink)

The article is devoted to study of the modes of inheritance of cultural symbols. In particular, it is a research of perception in Christianity of preceding cultures’ archetypes. The study provides the analysis of semantic links between the symbols of the World Tree, the Vivifying Cross and the meaning of the Blessed Virgin image. The article shows how the pre-Christian symbols of the World Tree and the cross itself were merged and transformed in Christian theology, liturgy and iconography in the (...) image of Golgotha Cross. The cross acquires the features of a Cosmic Tree, which combines the lower and the upper worlds – the heaven and the earth, life and death. The symbol of the tree is often substituted by the image of a woman appearing in this case as a symbol of life and fertility and evokes the associations with the genealogical tree. Therefore, the connection between the World Tree and the Blessed Virgin is proved to be natural. On the basis of the historical sources the author analyzes the legends and evidences of the revelations and discoveries of the Blessed Mary’s icons on the trees of a certain kinds. The study explicates the symbolic meaning of those trees spread in a global world, in Slavic and Ukrainian cultural traditions. In particular, the research encloses the semantics of the following kinds of trees: fir tree, linden, pear tree, oak, willow, blackthorn. Every kind of those trees has a special symbolic meaning. The novelty of the research is that it for the first time proves the semantic connection of sacred meaning of miracle icons and of the certain kinds of trees. The study defines the limited range of those trees and, on the other hand, the kinds of other trees believed to be vile and thus never appeared in the legends about the discoveries of miracle icons. As a conclusion, the research proves the existence of the autochtonal tradition of correlation of the semantics of miracle icons of Our Lady with the certain kinds of trees in the result of synthesis of the ancient symbolism and Christianity. In every case, the symbolic meanings of trees had archaic origin and connection with the ancient cosmogonical concepts. Depending on the particular semantic nuance emphasized in the World Tree, the priority of a certain kind of tree determined. On the whole, the study demonstrates the importance of the symbols in forming of cultural identity and for understanding of interrelations of cultures at the deep semantic level. (shrink)