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In this article, I examine N. A. Berdyayev’s social philosophy of technology, which he positions as Christian-personalistic-socialistic. I reconstruct its main provisions and identify its “metaphysical” and “sociological” aspects. I show, first, that according to Berdyayev, metaphysics of technology is the critique of the modern idea of man about himself as homo faber or a toolmaking animal, which is the result of his violation of the eternal order of values and the creation of an idol from technology

This article examines anti-Semitic propaganda of German authorities in occupied Soviet territory in the so-called “General District of Belarus.” The author identifies the main directions of anti-Semitic propaganda, analyzes its content, assesses the effectiveness of the ideological influence of the German occupation authorities on the Belarusian population, and proves that the occupiers tried to appeal to the national feelings of Belarusians using anti-Semitism.

REALISTS believe that human nature is inherently flawed (the legacy of Hobbes’s anthropological pessimism and, on an even deeper level, the legacy of the Christian idea of the Fall, or lapsus in Latin) and cannot be fundamentally corrected, which means that selfishness, predation, and violence are impossible to eradicate. This leads to the conclusion that man (who, according to Hobbes, is a wolf to another man) can only be restrained and regulated by means of a strong state. The state is inevitable and is the bearer of supreme sovereignty. At the same time, the predatory and egoistic nature of man is projected onto the state; therefore, the nation-state has its own interests. These interests take into account only their own state, while the will to violence and greed mean war is always a possibility. Realists believe that this has always been and always will be.

This article presents the concept of the diversity of Russian philosophy. Philosophical diversity, the many faces of Russian thought in different epochs, calls for corresponding hermeneutic procedures to be understood holistically.

THE main phenomenon of the social mainstream is the institution of the state and its evolution (“shrinking”), associated with the increased activity of civil society and a reevaluation of the role of the market.

The rapid development of the platform economy not only leads to changes in the organizational forms of the economy, but fundamentally transforms social relationships on the macro- and micro levels, directly affecting a major subject area of sociology.

This article analyzes some aspects of civilizationism as a trend in the self-positioning strategies of several Asian states, notably China and India, as well as some other countries. Close attention is paid to the concept of the civilization state (CS), as distinct from the nation state (NS), where the former reveals the specific characteristics of the major non-Western states.

This article analyzes some aspects of civilizationism as a trend in the self-positioning strategies of several Asian states, notably China and India, as well as some other countries. Close attention is paid to the concept of the civilization state (CS), as distinct from the nation state (NS), where the former reveals the specific characteristics of the major non-Western states.

This article analyzes some aspects of civilizationism as a trend in the self-positioning strategies of several Asian states, notably China and India, as well as some other countries. Close attention is paid to the concept of the civilization state (CS), as distinct from the nation state (NS), where the former reveals the specific characteristics of the major non-Western states.

IN HIS classic book On War, the eminent 19th century German military theorist Carl von Clausewitz generalized the experience of the Napoleonic wars: “The art of war … makes War of all branches of human activity the most like a gambling game.”1 It seems that since the time when Clausewitz defined war as “the continuation […]