Philosophical Origins Research Articles

Идеалы социальной справедливости в России

The aim of the study is to examine the concept of “social justice” in modern scientific research and in the everyday perception of Russian citizens. It is shown that several concepts of social justice with different philosophical origins exist in society in parallel. Polling data show that for Russians the most relevant are economic, political and moral perception of social justice, as well as understanding it as a basis for equal realization of rights, freedoms and talents of citizens, regardless of their origin, capital, etc. The ideals of social justice in Russia have been transformed and now continue to change, reflecting the changes both in the value system of Russians and in the socio-political sphere: the significant role of individuality, the connection of the concept with lawmaking and political institutions, the opportunity for personal growth and acquiring a better future for each member of society, the decreasing role of the state in human life. Socio-economic contradictions that significantly affect the concept of social justice among Russian citizens, emphasizing one or another of its aspects, have been revealed; they mainly concern economic and labor aspects of society.

Engaged Buddhism, its history, practice and social benefits

The article is primarily dedicated to the Buddhism in action, 'the engaged Buddhism'. The roots of engaged Buddhism and its evolution and practice from the ancient time to the modern era have been reviewed. Though majority of researchers tend to link engaged Buddhism with the original philosophy of Buddhism, some of the researchers differ and try to emphasize that the idea of engaged Buddhism is against Buddhist's original philosophy. Despite differing views on the origin of engaged Buddhism, the modern practice of engaged Buddhism round the globe has been found more advantageous for the better societies and better world than ever before.

Muṣṭafā Ṣabrī on Waḥdat al-Wuǧūd and its Philosophical Origins

Abstract This article studies the critique of waḥdat al-wuǧūd penned by Muṣṭafā Ṣabrī (d. 1954), one of the last Ottoman şeyhülislams. Ṣabrī’s critique echoes those written by previous theologians such as al-Taftāzānī while simultaneously criticising their shortcomings. In Ṣabrī’s view, waḥdat al-wuǧūd originates in what he calls “the divinization of existence”: the identification of God’s essence with his existence, a doctrine held by Muslim peripatetics and adopted by several philosophical theologians. It is just because they failed to locate such an origin that Ṣabrī believes previous critiques of the Akbarian doctrine were not adequate.

Explicating collegiality and change management in neoliberalism during the dynamics of higher education institutions: : A Systematic Literature Review using PRISMA Checklist

Background This paper discusses the lack of references that comprehensively describe the changes in universities owing to the ideology of neoliberalism. This research also discusses how a university maintains its function and identity when the great wave of neoliberalism massively erodes collegiality as the original philosophy of the university through a case study of the neoliberalism ideology on higher education. This study also provides a comprehensive framework for higher education management and governance changes. Methods We selected all retrieved sources based on the keywords and analyzed all the documents we obtained. This study obtained data from Scopus retrieved on October 27, 2023, using the following keywords: (TITLE-ABS-KEY ("collegiality") OR TITLE-ABS-KEY ("change management") OR TITLE-ABS-KEY ("neolibelism")) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY ("higher education"). This study utilized bibliometric analysis to ensure a structured review of the literature on collegiality, change management, and neoliberalism in higher education. Results The findings show that organizational management, leadership, education, technology, curriculum, innovation, organizational change, decision-making, and human beings are significant trajectories of neoliberalism in higher education. Conclusions This study offers other constructs for accelerating leadership success in higher education. This relates to how change leadership can navigate changes resulting from neoliberal ideology.

A universal formulation of uncertainty relation for errors

We present a universal formulation of uncertainty relation valid for any conceivable quantum measurement of statistical nature. Owing to its simplicity and operational tangibility, our general relation is also experimentally verifiable. Our relation violates the traditional naïve bound ħ/2 for the position-momentum measurement while respecting Heisenberg's original philosophy of the uncertainty principle. Our relation entails, among others, the Arthurs–Kelly–Goodman and Ozawa relations as corollaries to its special cases, and also seamlessly reduces itself to the standard Kennard–Robertson (Schrödinger) relation when the measurement is non-informative.

The Poet-Creator of Philosophy: To the Methodology of Research in Philosophical Thought by Rabindranath Tagore

The Indian poet and educator Rabindranath Tagore was the creator of an original philosophy that gives additional meaning to the picture of the history of Indian philosophy in the 20th century. He usually emphasized his identity as a poet and an artist, not considering himself a philosopher. However, Tagore embodies the phenomenon of a poet-thinker who comprehends universal philosophical problems and, in the process of philosophizing, offers his own vision of them. Moreover, he owns a number of texts of a religious-philosophical and socio-philosophical nature, in addition to the content of poetry and fiction. The philosophy created by the poet requires a comprehensive holistic study, which, in turn, raises the problem of research methodology. The article proposes the author's methodology for the reconstruction of Rabindranath Tagore's philosophy, based on an understanding of his personality, the contexts of thought and the hermeneutics of texts. The methodological model of philosophy reconstruction includes three levels. The first involves analyzing the personality of R. Tagore using the categories "cross-cultural thinker" and "problematic thinker". The second is a description of the contexts of his philosophizing: external general civilizational, internal epochal and internal biographical. The third is the hermeneutics of texts, taking into account the poetic component and the philosophical problems of speeches and fiction. The novelty of the described methodological model is due to the possibilities and prospects of reconstructing Tagore's philosophical thought and concepts. 1. Description of the phenomenon of a poet and writer creating a philosophy in which the experience of artistic creation generates a universal religious and social meaning and actualizes humanistic issues. 2. Presentation of the process of formation of cross-cultural philosophy of the XX century on the material of a particular thinker. 3. The analysis of the contexts of the unfolding of philosophy helps to trace the continuity of the thinker and his ideas with the Indian philosophical tradition in a broad sense and at the same time identify innovation, not least due to his dialogue with Western culture and modernity. 4. Seeing Tagore's philosophy as a kind of quintessence of the Bengali Renaissance heritage, it is not difficult to notice its significance and relevance for modernity. 5. Reconstruction along the proposed methodological path will open up not only direct, but also comparative prospects for studying Tagore's philosophical thought in comparison with the reflections of philosophers from different cultural areas, primarily peripheral to the West and non-Western ones.

Innovating Thought: Theorizing Metacognition

The present article explores how the concept of metacognition has evolved, from its philosophical origins to current interdisciplinary applications. The paper transversally traces, how metacognitive theories have been integrated by various fields. First of all, is emphasized the progressive character of the development of the metacognitive theory; second, the features that establish it as an independent theory are highlighted. Finally, the article explores current and future concerns, trends and directions in research. Thus, the following discourse exploratively investigates how metacognition with its ancient history on ‘’thinking about thinking’’, have been innovated by various current scientific fields.

공공문화콘텐츠로서의 산림교육과 자연해설에 대한 해석적 연구: 프리먼 틸든의 ‘해설’ 개념을 중심으로

This study is an interpretive research on the philosophical orientation of forest education, a public cultural content utilizing forest resources. Forest education professionals such as ‘forest interpreters’, ‘early childhood forest guides’, and ‘forest trail and mountain guides’ are trained to provide public cultural content services that mediate between citizens and nature. This practice originated in the historical context of nature preservation and management through state-led national parks, which began in the West, particularly in the United States. Forest education in Korea, such as forest interpretation, is equivalent to ‘nature interpretation’ in the West. The various literatures produced on nature interpretation have had a significant impact on Korean forest education policy, and this study aims to identify the ideological roots of nature interpretation, which have been largely unexplored. The study first approached nature interpretation activities by collecting examples from Europe, Northern Europe, and Canada, confirming that nature preservation is a common goal and purpose. Through a historical approach, the researchers examined the preservationism that influenced the introduction of nature interpretation in the West and realized that the philosophical origin of nature interpretation is the idea of combining nature preservation and spirituality. To understand nature interpretation, we examine Freeman Tilden's concept of interpretation, which continued this early preservationist spirit but constructively transformed it and shaped nature interpretation today. The study explored the core concept of ‘the Thing Itself’ in the context of Romantic texts such as those by Novalis and Carl von Linné, centering on Kant's influence on Romanticism. Most importantly, the researchers interpreted Tilden's concept of ‘interpretation’ as a theory of the sublime to explore the philosophical roots of nature interpretation. Through this study, it is argued that the essential meaning of the field of nature interpretation is the unity of nature and human beings and the love of nature through personal experience and recognition of the sublime in nature.

Parallel intelligence in three decades: a historical review and future perspective on ACP and cyber-physical-social systems

Recent advances in human-in-the-loop or human-centric research have sparked a new wave of scientific exploration. These studies have enhanced the understanding of complex social systems and contributed to more sustainable artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystems. However, the incorporation of human or social factors increases system complexity, making traditional approaches inadequate for managing these complex systems and necessitating a novel operational paradigm. Over decades of work, a mature and comprehensive theory of parallel intelligence (PI) has been established. Rooted in cyber-physical-social systems (CPSS), PI adapts flexibly to various situations within complex systems through the ACP framework (Artificial systems, Computational experiments, and Parallel execution), ensuring system reliability. This paper provides a detailed review and a novel perspective on PI, beginning with the historical and philosophical origins of CPSS and proceeding to present both the fundamental framework and technological implementations of PI. PI-based Industry 5.0 is highlighted, where three pillars are adopted to help realize the supposed vision. Additionally, the paper outlines applications of PI in multiple fields, such as transportation, healthcare, manufacturing, and agriculture, and discusses the opportunities and challenges for imaginative intelligence. The continuous exploration of PI is expected to eventually facilitate the realization of “6S”-based (safe, secure, sustainable, sensitive, service, and smart) parallel ecosystems.

Maat and the origins of philosophy in Kemet (Egypt)

A civilização kemética ou egípcia é uma das primeiras grandes culturas do mundo antigo, remontando a tempos imemoriais. Kemet (Egito) é conhecido por seus monumentos grandiosos, as pirâmides, bem como por sua crença na imortalidade da alma, a qual dedicavam todo um culto e um livro específico para as cerimonias e fórmulas no pós vida, o Livro dos Mortos. Além destas referências fundamentais devemos incluir ainda sua compreensão da ordem cósmica e sua eficiência na vida humana, daí o conceito fundamental de Maat (ordem, justiça e verdade). Maat é representada como uma divindade, filha de Rá, esposa de Toth, mas principalmente como um conceito filosófico que está na base de toda sua cultura e pensamento. Pretendemos apresentar este conceito nos períodos históricos da civilização egípcia, presente na literatura sapiencial (Sebayt), como base para sua constituição como princípio fundante da filosofia egípcia (kemética), e, por extensão, das filosofias em África e sua influência entre os gregos.

THE MALAY EPISTEMOLOGICAL BACKGROUND IN THE ISLAMIC WRITINGS OF HAMZAH FANSŪRĪ

The study of Hamzah Fansūrī’s writings has long been focused on understanding its connection to Islamic philosophy rather than its indigenous philosophical origins. The objective of this study is to identify and expose the traditional Malay epistemological background behind Hamzah Fansūrī’s writings. This objective is achieved through the evidence and analysis methods of historical linguistics on the one hand, and by judging these analytical conclusions based on Buddhist Yogācāra’s epistemology of Śrīvijaya on the other hand. Three important research findings are as follows: 1) the overall style of Hamzah Fansūrī’s writings is the logical tradition of Dignāga, 2) all the metaphors of Hamzah Fansūrī’s writings, which are of the type of pariṇāma theory, can be understood in the epistemological tradition of Vasubandhu, which was influential in the writings of Śrīvijaya from the end of the seventh century to the beginning of the eleventh century, and 3) Hamzah Fansūrī’s works are also influenced by the recent Malayu-Singapura philosophy of Saṃkhyā, mainly the distinction between śabda and katā, which is used to receive the new Islamic epistemological distinctions and traditions. In other words, to say that the Śrīvijaya period had no major impact on philosophy, and that pre-Islamic Malay mind was more aesthetic than philosophical cannot be supported by the writings of Hamzah Fansūrī.

Культурно-философские предпосылки концепции «мягкой силы»

This article delves into the cultural-philosophical prerequisites preceding the formation of the “soft power” concept. As a result of the study, the philosophical and cultural-anthropological factors of the emergence of this concept are highlighted. Conceptually, its philosophical origins are intertwined with two primary inquiries: firstly, the influence of the communicator on the recipient (the Maieutics of Socrates, the “Rhetoric” of Aristotle), secondly, the study of individual properties of culture, educational (Plato, Cicero, Confucius), unifying (Sun Tzu), regulatory (N. Machiavelli). Culture, as a full-fledged instrument of the “soft power” influence encompassing all these properties, is analyzed in the works of A. Gramsci. Another significant source shaping the “soft power” concept is the scientific tradition of cultural anthropology as a distinct discipline, which views culture as an essential element of colonial administration (E.B. Tylor, F. Boas, B. Malinowski) and interstate confrontation (R. Benedict). The French School of Social Anthropology has focused on the study of the mechanisms of formation of public opinion (G. Tarde) and methods of influencing the masses (G. Le Bon). In conclusion, the concept of “soft power” emerges as a product of diverse intellectual traditions, blending philosophical inquiries, cultural analyses, and anthropological insights. By elucidating its cultural and philosophical foundations, this article provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the complexities of modern power dynamics and international relations.

Evolution of informed consent in research: From the Hippocratic Oath to the tailored consent.

Informed consent (IC) is essential in defending the autonomy of potential participants in clinical research. Despite the advances in research ethics, particularly in IC, the different guidelines and codes have not been fully implemented. Several studies have presented consent deficiencies that have resulted in unethical practices or poor understanding of the IC. This article reviews the evolution of IC, from its philosophical origins and initial use in the Ottoman Empire (16th century) to its use in clinical research today. It also presents the vision of the European project i-CONSENT (Grant Agreement number: 741856), whose main purpose is to improve the understanding of ICs in research and identifies the key components of a new paradigm to develop patient-centred ICs. In many cases, the IC has served to protect the investigator or sponsor from complaints. Different ethical guidelines have sought to make the IC a more useful tool, with little success. Today's IC is mainly a bureaucratic and legal process that fails to consider the patient's point of view. In this context, the Guidelines for Tailoring the Informed Consent Process in Clinical Studies provide alternatives to the current IC process, focusing on the patient's opinions and making them part of the process, thereby improving clinical research quality.

Explicating collegiality and change management in neoliberalism during the dynamics of higher education institutions

Background This paper discusses the lack of references that comprehensively describe the changes in universities owing to the ideology of neoliberalism. This research also discusses how a university maintains its function and identity when the great wave of neoliberalism massively erodes collegiality as the original philosophy of the university through a case study of the neoliberalism ideology on higher education. This study also provides a comprehensive framework for higher education management and governance changes. Methods We selected all retrieved sources based on the keywords and analyzed all the documents we obtained. This study obtained data from Scopus retrieved on October 27, 2023, using the following keywords: (TITLE-ABS-KEY ("collegiality") OR TITLE-ABS-KEY ("change management") OR TITLE-ABS-KEY ("neolibelism")) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY ("higher education"). This study utilized bibliometric analysis to ensure a structured review of the literature on collegiality, change management, and neoliberalism in higher education. Results The findings show that organizational management, leadership, education, technology, curriculum, innovation, organizational change, decision-making, and human beings are significant trajectories of neoliberalism in higher education. Conclusions This study offers other constructs for accelerating leadership success in higher education. This relates to how change leadership can navigate changes resulting from neoliberal ideology.

Utilitarianism of Claude Adrian Helvetius as one of the philosophical origins of urbanism

The article reveals the connection between the ideas of the Enlightenment and the modern direction of scientific knowledge, urban studies. Urban studies as a concept of the social development of the city has, among other things, the understanding of interest in the interpretation of Helvetius. He thinks that interest is the driving force of society, the nature of which he considers from the standpoint of sensationalism and utilitarianism. Urban studies solve the problems of interaction between a person and a city, which are based on the philosophical problem of interaction between the individual and the general. The purpose of the work is to trace in the ethics of Helvetius the combination of reasonable egoism and the principles of public benefit; the irremovability of natural prerequisites in man preserves the individual in society, and the irremovability of contractual principles makes it necessary to observe the public interest. The article determines that the recognition of the right to personal interest is a great merit of Helvetius and one of the philosophical foundations of urban studies.

미야자키 하야오 작품의 어린이 노동 모티프에 대한 유토피아주의적 해석

This study is a critique of the work of renowned Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki, specifically the recurring motif of child labor in his works. First, the recurring images of labor in his works are conceptualized as motifs in the narrative sense. In particular, it is noted that motifs are typically constructed through the repetition of key acts, which combine with each other to form and reinforce themes, and serve as the central core of a plot, the principle that forms the constitutive events. In other words, the labor motif is a principle of narrative organization. Analytic frame is suggested by drawing on Aristotle's theory of character and the theory of agency, the ability of an entity to cause an event. Applying this frame to Hayao's early works, Kiki the Witch Courier and Spirited Away, child labor motif in terms of the self-creative agency in agency theory and the plot-intensive motif of motif theory are analyzed. Through this analysis, it is clear that the labor motif is not only the attraction of the characters in Hayao's works, but also the core and driving principle of the narrative. Finally, as the philosophical origin of the labor motif, Hayao's view of labor is interpreted by using utopian views of labor, such as Fourier's, which are often found in early socialist discussions, as a framework for interpretation.

Философия природы в мировоззрении В.Ф. Эрна

The article presents the natural philosophical views of the bright representative of Russian religious philosophy Vladimir Fedorovich Ern. The emphasis is placed on the fact that the Russian philosopher opposes two mutual-ly exclusive worldview positions in understanding nature: meonism and ontologism. Meonism manifested itself in radical rationalism, which perceives nature exclusively as dead schemes; utilitarianism, which regards na-ture only from the point of view of momentary practical benefit; cardinal pantheism, which is engaged in mixing nature and God, without actually recognizing their subjectivity; solipsism, for which nature is just a bundle of sensations; and even Kantianism, for which the gap between phenomena and noumena is absolutely fatal. The main epistemological task of the genuine philosophy of logism, according to V.F. Ern, is the elimination of separation from Nature as Being. The most important source of the logistic worldview of nature is the Orthodox East, according to V.F. Ern. The same truth is revealed in nature as in the Holy Scriptures, and the truth can be extracted from nature even without a written revelation. The author of the article comes to the conclusion that the philosophy of nature by V.F. Ern remains relevant in the modern world. The Russian thinker paid great at-tention to the search for the philosophical origins of human interaction with nature. In the modern world, a per-son faces serious environmental problems, but this is only a consequence of various variants of meonism, dis-closed in detail by V.F. Ern in his works.

Myth, Folklore, and Genesis of Philosophy (To the 55th Anniversary of “The Origin of Philosophy” by M. I. Shakhnovich)

Against the background of modern debates about the origin of philosophical thought in the Ancient East, the article examines an attempt to resolve the riddle of the genesis of philosophy, undertaken by the Leningrad University Professor M. I. Shakhnovich (1911–1992) in his study “The Origin of Philosophy” (1969). Shakhnovich noted that the process of the birth of philosophy from the womb of religious-mythological consciousness cannot be understood as the transformation of mythology into natural philosophy, religious images into physical concepts and philosophical categories. The study of “pre-philosophy,” by which he understood the rudiments of philosophical thought that existed within mythology, believing that the ancient “wisdom literature” already contained philosophical ideas, was based on his deep knowledge of comparative mythology, ethnography and folklore. Archaic mythology intricately combined mysticism with practical knowledge about nature and man, reality and fantasy, amazing guesses and incredible delusions, true truth and absurd fictions. Shakhnovich drew attention to the nature of human cognitive abilities and the features of language, which make it possible to shed light on the nature of mythological consciousness. Contrary to the established tradition of considering early philosophy exclusively from the point of view of the formation of ontological problems, he believed that ethics, as the most important element of philosophical ideas about man, has a very ancient history, that the origins of philosophy go back to folk sayings and rules of worldly wisdom both in the Ancient East and in Ancient Greece. There is no doubt that the process of formation of philosophy is inseparable from the development of human cognitive abilities and the formation of scientific knowledge, but attempts to solve rationally problems of anthropology and ethics that existed in ancient times cannot be discounted when exploring the question of the origin of philosophy.

“Semantic ornament”: philosophical origins and technical innovations of the “meaning” model of Vladimir Arsentievich Rubanov. Review of the trilogy “I See the Sense”

“Semantic ornament”: philosophical origins and technical innovations of the “meaning” model of Vladimir Arsentievich Rubanov. Review of the trilogy “I See the Sense”

Transhumanism in the context of Ethos of enhancement and search for Identity: philosophical origins

Transhumanism in the context of Ethos of enhancement and search for Identity: philosophical origins