Kant and the New Enlightenment: On the Balance between Duty and Utilitarian Ends
The relation between Kant’s philosophy and the “philosophy of balance” as it is described in the report Come on! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet, delivered to the Club of Rome in 2018, requires some analysis. The authors of the report consider Kant to be a philosopher of ...
George Balanchine, a teacher (1904—1983)
George Balanchine is a Russian-US dancer and choreographer who was invited to the USA in 1933 by Lincoln Kirstein's. Balanchine founded the School of American Ballet following the Russian ballet tradition. The author focuses his attention on several movements of classical dance as interpreted by Balanchine.
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Creative Potential of Artificial Intelligence in the Context of the Idea of the New Enlightenment
... AI creativity becomes pertinent and sparks debates within the scientific community regarding its creative potential. In response to these challenges, members of the Club of Rome in 2018 propose the concept of a new Enlightenment and the principle of balance as a response to the demands of technological development. These ideas underscore the need for a balanced approach to technical progress, taking into account global values and ethical principles. I explore the definitions of creativity and AI,...
Developing and testing a balanced scorecard for a trading company
This article presents a case of developing a balanced performance scorecard for a Kaliningrad trading company. A general solution includes five stages: analysing economic performance, studying dependencies between performance indicators, building strategic map charts, identifying goals and planning ...
Ensuring the proportional development of the strategic areas of coastal specialisation
This article presents proposals to ensure a balanced development of the strategic areas of regional specialization based on managerial decisionmaking in the conditions of the system uncertainty of integrated coastal interaction. To this end, it is suggested that a balanced scorecard system identifying ...
Trends in agrarian land use and the nutrient balance values ensuring an increase in land fertility
This article analyses major trends in agricultural land use in the Kaliningrad region (the proportions of fallow land, tilled crops, grassland). The author suggests a methodology for calculating soil nutrient balance tested on a farm.
1. Вовлечение в сельскохозяйственное производство не используемых по це¬ле¬во¬му назначению земель сельскохозяйственного ...
Spatial planning in the European Union and the Russian Federation
... form the basis for this type of urban development in the countries of the European Union (EU) and in the Russian Federation. The following principles are considered and compared for both territories: 1) promotion of territorial cohesion through a more balanced social and economic development of regions and improved competitiveness; 2) encouragement of development generated by urban functions and improvement of the relationship between the town and countryside; 3) promotion of more balanced accessibility; ...
Commentary on a poetic work as philological genre
... genre-specific nature of this type of artistic work. The main focus is on understanding the two-stage character of commentary. The first stage relies on precise textological information, while the second takes on an explanatory-interpretative character. A balance is determined between interpretation and commentary, the pursuit of objectifying meaning, and the subjectively personal experiential aspect, which is realized in the aesthetic experience, in the encounter between the author and the reader in the ...
Peculiarities of the political media discourse as a factor in forming reputational capital of the heads of subjects of the Russian Federation (by the example of the Central Federal District regions)
... often leads to a decline in reputational indicators. The proposed methodology for analyzing media discourse can serve as a tool for assessing the effectiveness of communication strategies of regional elites. The study emphasizes the importance of a balanced approach that takes into account the specific characteristics of territories in shaping the public image of political authority.
Lavrikova A.A., Teteruk D.S.
political media discourse, information agenda, political communications,...
Development of the military-industrial complex of Pakistan in the 21st century as an element of the national military strategy
... Tvetbroten regarding the effectiveness of implementing such innovations. In addition, certain results of the implementation of practical measures in this area over the past 7—10 years are studied. The author concludes that Pakistan is pursuing a balanced policy in the field of the military-industrial complex under conditions of political and economic instability and challenges related to the development of its own models of weapons. Furthermore, it is revealed that the country’s leadership ...
On multiple semiotics integrally, aspectively and concretely
... discourse analysis in an interdisciplinary application.
Biznes. Obshchestvo. Vlast'
[Business. Society. Power], 22, pp. 67—82 (in Russ.).
Ilyin, M. V., Avdonin, V. S. and Fomin, I. V., 2018. Methodological challenge. Critical reflection. How to keep balance at the curves from visual precision to scientific validity and back.
Metod: moskovskii ezhegodnik trudov iz obshchestvovedcheskikh distsiplin
[METHOD: Moscow Yearbook of Works from Social Science Disciplines], 8, pp. 5—11 (in Russ.).
Kravchenko,...
Who and how produces the future (Alexander Fedorov’s new philosophy of common cause)
... of vitality over artificial intelligence, the future is largely grounded in this vitality, exemplified by the essence of childhood. Consequently, the question of management possibilities and the ethical dimensions of future production, as well as the balance between permissible and impermissible means employed, becomes particularly salient.
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Zhizn' i tekhnika budushchego....
Translation of sociolect texts
... translator needs to perform to render the specificity of the Soviet camp social dialect in English. The analysis of the ways in which translators processed the source texts under consideration reveals the twofold strategy aimed at maintaining a proper balance between replicating the sociolect text specificity and making the translation readable to the target recipients. Combining explanatory translation, loose translation, occasional equivalents with loan translation translators achieve clarity of ...
Why Study Kant? Framing the Problem
In its 2018 publication, Come On! the Club of Rome advocates the need for a New Enlightenment. It associates Kant with an Old Enlightenment that favours (i) individualism, (ii) rationalism and in general (iii) a lack of balance between different elements such as reason and feelings. In this discussion note, I argue — based on Kant’s theoretical as well as practical philosophies — that the charges are not properly levelled at Kant. (i) In finding truth as well as ...
Some aspects of John Rawls’s first principle of justice
... No. 5. S. 68—81.
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9. Bae, Y.-S. 2002, Balancing Equality and Liberty in Rawls’s Theory of Justice. Master's Thesis, University of Tennessee.
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Kant between liberalism and conservatism
... to sug¬gest a reevaluation of Kant as an unconditional liberal. Kant's generally liberal understanding of aims and values of a political process (which is, however, quite remote from the pluralism and individualism of some contemporary theories) is balanced by his reservations concerning the prospects of their realization, based on his «empirical anthropology», which is remarkably close to conservative skepticism. Kant's liberalism lies in the domain that he called «pure» or «metaphysical»,...