Kant’s Philosophy of Chemistry and Nietzsche’s Cosmology: On the Material Hermeneutics of Alchemy and Cinnabar. Part I
... of a sustained discussion of Anaxagoras’ pre-Platonic cosmology. The paper includes reflections on alchemy, the history and historiography of chemistry, and recent contributions to the philosophy of chemistry. Since the foundations of chemistry are essentially non-mathematical, it cannot, following Kant, fully meet the criteria of a ‘science’. The same argument holds for alchemy (‘chymistry’ or spagyric), which is likewise not regarded as a science. Hermeneutic history and philosophy of ...
Universal competencies focusing on the future profession: experience in developing the course “Basics of Professional Communication” for students of translation education programs
Universal competencies are essential for the successful employment of graduates from all educational programs. Employers note their importance for launching a successful career while simultaneously emphasizing the low level of development of universal competencies among university ...
On the issue of constructing a taxonomy of tasks in teaching data analysis
The widespread use of artificial intelligence technologies, data analysis, and their positioning as the foundation for the development of the future economy significantly increases the demand for certain specialists. In this context, it is essential to focus on the methodology for teaching data analysis in universities. The aim of this article is to develop the basis of a taxonomy for creating practical data analysis tasks and to test its applicability. The author examines the main taxonomies ...
Prison topos as an anti-home in V.G. Korolenko’s short story Yashka
The relevance of the problem addressed lies in the importance of studying the category of home, which actualizes essential spiritual and moral meanings, and its variant, the anti-home. Analyzing the spatial organization of V. G. Korolenko’s story Yashka reveals that the vertical and horizontal arrangement of prison cells forms the traditional oppositions of “top ...
A part outside the whole? (To Anton Zimmerling's article “Really: syntactics without semiotics?”)
Before delving into the connections between linguistics and semiotics, it is essential to establish a clear demarcation between these fields, which necessitates a precise definition of each subject. However, the approach taken by Anton Zimmerling in this regard is subject to debate. In the discussion of semiotics, the focus ...
The image of Kaliningrad in the perception of university students
The image of the city as one of the most important elements of modern post-industrial reality is an essential element in the world picture of any individual. The research aims to study the peculiarities of perception and verbal representation of the image of Kaliningrad by the students of the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University. The objectives of ...
Language and the nature of humanness. Invitation to a discussion
... Sciences: Studies in Literature and Language], 60 (5), pp. 3—13 (in Russ.).
Kravchenko, A. V., 2006. Cognitive linguistics, biology of cognition and biosemiotics: Bridging the gaps.
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Kravchenko, A. V., 2007. Essential properties of language, or, why language is not a code.
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Kravchenko, A. V., 2007. The problem of method in cognitive science.
Voprosy Kognitivnoy Lingvistiki
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Translation and the ‘soft’ bridges of communication
... across verbal languages. Yet both ideas of translation imply exchanges of perspective between domains, cultures and senses and are inspiring conceptually, artistically and socially. Bonds between metaphorical and practical ideas of translation are essential today and are conceptualised in this article. Translation is crucial as both instrument of equivalence between things and ideas, and as agent revealing differences between them. I will consider how the translation of texts, which do not primarily ...
Comparative analysis of the epistemological language in translation
... the works of Immanuel Kant translated into English as well as the data from multilingual translation corpora which are used to describe translation-relevant aspects of conceptual integration in philosophical discourse.
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Fraas, C., 1998. Interpretations- und Gebrauchsmuster abstrakter Nomina — ein korpusbasierter Beschreibungsansatz, in: Deutsche Sprache ...
Action-thoughts and the genesis of time in linguistic semiosis
... L. M. Liashchova, ed. The Explicit and the Implicit in Language and Speech. Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 12—34.
Kravchenko, A. V., 2020. Linguistic semiosis and human cognition. Constructivist Foundations, 15(3), pp. 285—287.
Kuhn, T. S., 1977. The Essential Tension: Selected studies in scientific tradition and change. Chicago.
Lakoff, G. and Johnson, M., 1999. Philosophy in the Flesh: The embodied mind and its challenge to western thought. New York.
Lektorsky, V. A., 2018. Constructive realism ...
On the less obvious manifestations of the poetic function: a translator’s view
... Moscow (in Russ).
Fitzgerald, F. S. 1965. Velikii Getsbi [The Great Gatsby]. Translated from the English by E. Kalashnikova. Moscow (in Russ.).
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Isayeva, L. V., 2017. The Poetic Function of Language and ...
Literary scandal in cubo-futurism poetics and the communicative behaviour of recipients
The article deals with a ‘literary scandal’ as a mode and a script of communication within cubo-futurists poetic circles as far as the communication between poets and their addressees during a public performance is concerned. The latter is an essential component of the “literary everyday routine” of the poetic circles analysed. Not only does scandal betray an intention of insulting the recipient but also it is due to the scandal that the avant-garde author could find the addressee, become ...
An early edition of Andrey Bolotov’s memoirs (from the archives and manuscripts section of the State Historical Museum)
... to shed light on one aspect of this problem. Bolotov’s personal fund (No. 349) in the Archives and manuscripts section of the State Historical Museum contain a manuscript of Bolotov’s memoirs entitled “Part 2”. It differs significantly in its essential characteristics (paper, design, size, composition, title, division into sections, etc.) from most manuscripts of Bolotov’s memoirs. The study presents a textual analysis of this manuscript and compares it with the text of memoirs published ...
Digital World Communication аnd Translation
... digital studies to translation studies, and vice versa, is substantial. Both fields intrinsically deal with language, information, and communication and are inextricably linked to technology. After a brief introduction, the article highlights first the essential informational and communicational foundation of technology development that intertwined with histories of translation technology. The convergence of these multiple histories has led to today’s 24/7 digital infrastructure. It then considers ...
Textual, moral and psychological voices of translation
... investigate stylistic or structural characteristics of translated texts, intertextuality and other forms of multivocality and ethical questions related to agency, ideology and power in translation and interpreting. The first part of this article defines two essential concepts related to voice in translation — voice and text — and describes the state of the art of research in this field. The second part aims to deepen the discussion on voice in translation studies by introducing the notion of the voice ...
How translations are willed into existence
... Current Challenges and Future Directions. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Peirce, C. S., 1931—1958. The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce. Vol. VIII. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press.
Peirce, C. S., 1992—1998. The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings. Vol. II. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Pym, A., 2004a. The Moving Text: Localization, Translation, and Distribution. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Pym, A., 2004b. “Propositions ...
A. G. Baumgarten’s aesthetic-semiotic concept
... semiotic ideas that he developed later. In this work, semiotics is considered as part of aesthetics, as ‘denotative aesthetics’. Within Baumgarten’s concept, aesthetics and semiotics are closely interrelated. He described aesthetics as a science of essentially inseparable sensible cognition and expression. We analyse Baumgarten’s attitudes from a historical perspective and compare them with those of the ancient authors, John Locke, F. de Saussure, and R. Barthes. We emphasise the connection between ...
Hagiographic genre in the works of Konrad von Wurzburg
... poems describe the lives of Saint Alexis, a Man of God, Saint Pantaleon and Pope Sylvester. These saints are worshipped both by the Catholic and the Orthodox churches. Special attention is paid to Konrad von Wurzburg’s concept of ‘genre’, its essential features and the reader’s perception of hagiographic texts. I hold that German medieval writers tended to create spiritual literature in a poetic form. I define the terms, which according to German tradition, characterize hagiography as ...
On the problem of cultural reference of proverbs (the Russian proverbs with images of clothing)
... cultural and linguistic analysis reveals cultural and linguistic limitations on the variability of clothing items in proverbs. The author describes cultural constants captured in the names of clothing items used in proverbs. Such constants are defined as essential for understanding the Russian mentality.
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2. Arnol'd, I. V., 1978. The value of strong position ...
Kantian Approaches to Human Reproduction: Both Favourable and Unfavourable
... arguments are put forward and assessed: one examining whether perfect or imperfect duties condone reproduction, the other whether Kant’s teleological or, in the opposite sense, his eschatological outlooks can salvage reproduction. These two arguments are essential for building the entire argument. I find that, although Kant’s arguments against reproducing are strong, some of his writing seems to support reproduction as a good. Yet, must we assume an author, even one who strove for systematicity, is ...
Reception of Kant’s Epistemological Ideas in Fyodor Golubinsky’s Metaphysics
... borrowed some propositions of Kant’s theory of space and time, specifically, the procedure of identifying forms of sensibility — space and time — their a priori character, their being part of sensible intuitions and, finally, their definition as essential properties of sense perception. Golubinsky, unlike Kant, considers space and time to be objective. In his doctrine of the categories of understanding Golubinsky follows Kant in that the foundation of the categories of understanding is the unity ...
Affection of Law: Fichte on the Place and Boundaries of Pure Ethics of the Imperative
... legality”, one can readily recognise the ethics of law of the Stoical and Kantian type. Fichte stresses that in his youth he himself shared this worldview. However, he hastens to adduce a series of original arguments to show that this position is essentially incapable of delivering a pure and higher moral doctrine. I examine the substance of these critical arguments in the context of his later metaphysics. Fichte maintains that in the “second type” of worldview man himself feels and understands,...
The Role of the Sublime in Kant’s Religion: Moral Motivation and Empirical Possibility
I show that Kant’s depiction of the christic figure in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is not contingent but explains how this figure functions in two essential ways: as a representation of a maximum of morality that can ground our moral disposition and in so doing acts as a standard for morality. More precisely, the following argument is made: 1) the sublime nature of the image of Christ — as an ...
The Universe of Science. The Architectonic Ideas of Science, Sciences and their Parts in Kant
... Bacin, eds. 2015. Kant-Lexikon. Berlin & Boston: de Gruyter, pp. 2319-2325.
Friedman, M., 1992. Kant and the Exact Sciences. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Gava, G., 2014. Kant’s Definition of Science in the Architectonic of Pure Reason and the Essential Ends of Reason. In: Kant-Studien, 105(3), pp. 372-393.
Habermas, J., 2003. Truth and Justification. Translated by B. Fultner. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Kant, I., 1991. The Metaphysics of Morals. Translated by M. Gregor. Cambridge: ...
The Real Target of Kant’s “Refutation”
... idealist. I present and defend a new reconstruction of Kant’s “Refutation” as a successful argument against Mendelssohnian idealism of Cartesian provenance. This defence is based on a simple logical sketch of the proof provided by Dicker, but essentially modified in the light of Dyck’s insight about Kant’s opponent. How shall I support my reading? First, by appealing to overwhelming textual evidence according to which the proof is of the existence of mind-independent things, showing that ...
Report of the ‘Transcendental Turn in Contemporary Philosophy 2’ International Seminar (Moscow, 27—29 April 2017)
... Epistemic Status» (April 27—29, 2017, Moscow), the tasks of which was (1) to discuss the specificity of transcendental idealism, (2) to study the nature of one of Kant’s important concepts — that of appearance — within the framework of the essential conceptual triad of transcendentalism: thing in itself (Ding an sich) — appearance (Erscheinung) — representation (Vorstellung), (3) to analyse the distinction between Kant’s concepts of appearance and phenomenon, and (4) to examine the ...
A triune community: Fichte’s family law against the background of Kant’s practical philosophy (II)
... divorce interpreted based on his moral anthropology of sexes as a moral fact and a legal status. A divorce, once accomplished in the moral substance, transforms the personal union of family partners into a concubinage, which is seen considered in an essentially non-Kantian way. Against the background of these concepts, the article deals with questions of what the state has to protect and what it is entitled to punish in the domain of marriage.
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I. Kant and J. Jungius: on the development of critical tradition in the 17th century German philosophy
... experience, sensible intuitions are a necessary but insufficient basis for the validity of our knowledge; the bases of validity of natural science knowledge are to be found within reason; only the principles of reason can guarantee the universal and essential nature of both theoretical and empirical knowledge.
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2. Guhrauer G. E. Joachim Jungius und sein Zeitalter. Stuttgart und Tübingen, 1850.
3. Jungius J. Praecipuae Opiniones Physicae,...
Maimon’s critique of I. Kant’s theory of analytic judge-ments
... predetermined some ideas of Fichte and later exerted a certain influence on the thinkers of some very different schools (from Marburg Neo-Kantianism to Deleuze). Maimon’s attitude toward Kant’s views on the nature of analytic judgments underwent an essential change in the process of his theoretical evolution: while in “Essay on Transcendental Philosophy” (1790) he had generally agreed with the definitions given to them by Kant, in “Essay Towards a New Logic or Theory of Thought” (1794) he ...
The communication of persons: Kant’s theory of marriage law held captive by pagan anthropology
... person, the latter presupposing primary acquisition. This premise causes in Kantian family law an antinomy of private law and personalist ethics, which can hardly be eliminated by the own theoretical means of Kant's legal philiosophy. According to the essentials of Kant's ethics, the dignity of the other person, which is (allegedly) acquisited in matrimony, allows no possible equivalent, and its loss cannot be compensated at all events by the fact of mere mutuality of the instrumentalizing relation....
The ethno-cultural component of a woman image in the novel by M. A. Sholokhov “And Quiet Flows the Don”
..., semantics, stylistics, linguoculturology, etc., various aspects of the image of linguistic and artistic are considered. At the same time, the image of a woman appears not only as a significant image of the Russian conceptual sphere, but also as an essential component of M. A. Sholokhov’s artistic picture of the world, reflected in the novel “And Quiet Flows the Don”. The purpose of the article is to analyze the ways of representing one of the structural components of the image of a woman,...
Conceptualization of prayer in the diary discourse of L. N. Tolstoy
... cognitive strategy. Tolstoy names the following functions of prayer: it helps to achieve harmony, avoid complex emotional states, makes a person strong, spiritually elevates them, protects them from the temptation to sin, helps in self-understanding. An essential aspect of the conceptualization of prayer for Tolstoy is the definition of the conditions for its performance. Tolstoy understands prayer exclusively as an intimate, non-church appeal to God. Tolstoy believes that prayer should be carried out ...
Education in orthodox comprehensive schools in modern Russia: the issue of choosing methodological principles of research
... in modern pedagogical science to the chosen research subject is analyzed. As a result, a list of methodological principles for studying education in Orthodox comprehensive education schools is justified, including the principles of objectivity, essential analysis, genetic analysis, unity of historical and logical approaches, systematicity, combining the existing with the required, and activity-oriented principles. Since the research on the topic of education in modern Orthodox comprehensive ...
Operational thinking in the structure of the diagnostic thinking of a modern teacher-psychologist
... errors and ideas about categorical models of typical diagnostic errors. Special training in diagnostic thinking, in particular, the development of mental operations, which are necessary for teachers-psychologists to carry out effective diagnostics, is an essential component of their training and will increase the efficiency of their professional performance.
Functional and semantic characteristics of emotive and perceptual vocabulary in hagiography of Nikolay Yaponskiy.
... beyond the boundaries of perception by means of the senses and that open up to the men of faith.
When analyzing the emotive vocabulary used in hagiographic texts, it was found that the vocabulary of emotions in the life reveals the meanings that are essential for understanding the author's concept and becomes an important means of creating the image of a saint. These linguistic units are used in key fragments of the hagiographic text in order to describe and characterize people, objects and phenomena ...
The title of Alexander Pushkin’s novel The captain’s daughter as the textual dominant
This article considers the functional significance of the attributive combination ‘captain's daughter’ as an essential and integral component of the semantic space of Alexander Pushkin’s novel. Placed in the title, it functions as the key sign of the work of fiction since it makes it possible to interpret implied meanings. Unlike the other, more frequent, ...
The parameterisation of document texts as a means of genre identification
... based on a number of genre parameters that make it possible to structure a text array and present it in an electronic search environment. An important feature is the genre and type of a documentary text, which are established using a set of elements essential to documents. Since in historical documents these elements are not always highlighted in the text, the marker of the genre can be speech formulas performing the same function. This article proposes the following parameters of the genre: document ...
Frame approach to analysing the semantisation of the biblical quasi-anthroponym prodigal son in the language of Russian poetry
... determines how deeper meanings associated with the poetic interpretation of that eternal plot develop in the text. The inheritance of meanings is carried out both explicitly and implicitly, whereas the poetic interpretation of the biblical plot retains an essential connection with the basic protoframe. In most contexts, the meanings of the basic frame undergo a transformation when biblical symbolism is cancelled out, and the quasi-anthroponym ‘prodigal son’ merely communicates a generalised phraseological ...
On some challenges in teaching foreign language to visually impaired children
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School conflict as a subject of historical and pedagogical research
... a theoretical substantiation of the possibility of their historical and pedagogical investigation in pedagogy. Using pedagogical writings of the early XX century, the authors explore the conceptual foundations of school conflicts and identify their essential features. Special attention is given to the philosophical conception of the conflict as a means of reflecting reality. The authors also study the linguistic concept of the term as a functional unit of language. In conclusion, the authors define ...
Wry humor as a philosophy
Wry humor is viewed as an essential aspect of philosophical discourse. The authors analyze gloomy philosophical motives including life, death, human existence, social interactions, loneliness. The article shows that comprehending these issues through the wry humor acquires pessimistic ...
Hermeneutics of Guilt in Johannes Bobrowski’s Works
... complicated synthesis of antinomic semantics and metrics is being analyzed. The existence of guilt with its exacerbated spirit of his Christian humanity’s eschatological personalism in creative work of Bobrowski is being emphasized. The conclusion about the essential equality of his poetic language and being/nothingness in his understanding is being made.
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Christmas motif in R. L. Stevenson's story "Markheim"
The analysis of R. L. Stevenson's story "Markheim" shows an essential role of Christmas motifs in the semantic space of the work. There are various forms of expressing this motif in the key moments of the plot. The value space of the main character is connected to the Christian values inherent in Christ-mas motifs,...
Semantic opposition as a means to explicate bipolar disorder in Stephen Fry’s autobiography Moab Is My Washpot
This article analyses the semantic oppositions essential for describing Stephen Fry’s bipolar affective disorder in his autobiography. This opposition is based on the ontological fragmentation of personality into the young I nar-rative and the mature I narrator. It is established that these oppositions ...
Cultural identity: On the definition of the concept
This article provides a detailed definition of cultural identity – a modality and an essential component of identity and its types. To this end, the study differentiates between the notions of individual and collective cultural identities as phenomena of individual and collective consciousness. Such definitions shape the trajectories ...