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• The image of Svyatopolk in the Tale of Boris and Gleb: predestination or freedom of choice?

  ... духовной культуре : в 2 т. М.,1995—1998. Т. 1 : Начало христианства на Руси. 5. Федотов Г. П. Святые Древней Руси. М., 1990. Dorofeeva L. hagiography, anthropology, image, will, freedom of choice 108-111

• The philosophical and legal content of Sergey Hessen’s concept of personality

  ... the notion of culture — civilizedness, level of education, and civic virtue. He stressed that the personality and culture existed in a dialectical relationship. Hessen emphasised the primacy of personal freedom and the need to distinguish between freedom and power of choice. Acts of choice are random and unpredictable — they do not have a solid foundation, whereas acts of freedom are a prerequisite for creativity — an integral characteristic of personality. The creative essence of personality suggests individuality ...

• Moral inscrutability and self-constitution in Kant (translated from the English by V. Belonogova and D. Khizanishvili, edited by V. Chaly)

  This article analyses the system of inferences used by Kant in Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason to demonstrate ... ... project presented in the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. He emphasises that freedom is not justified and postulates a transcendental structure similar to the unity... .... Yovel, Y., 1998. Kant's Practical Reason as Will: Interest, Recognition, Judgment, and Choice. The Review of Metaphysics, 52(2), pp. 267—94.

• 1+1-Dimensional Yang — Mills Equations and Mass via Quasiclassi­cal Correction to Action

  ... is shown that the Nahm reduction does not work, another, novel choice is proposed and investigated. A quasiclassical quantization of the models is based on Feynmann — Maslov path integral construction and its zeta function representation in terms of a Green function diagonal for an aux­iliary heat equation with an elliptic potential. The natural renormalization use a freedom in vacuum state choice as well as the choice of the norm of an evolu­tion operator eigenvectors. A nonzero mass appears as the quasiclassical cor­rection, that is expressed via hyperelliptic integral. 1. Savvidy G. K. The Yang — Mills Classical Mechanics as a ...

• Kant on evil in the human nature

  ... assume that the notion of freedom of will as freedom aimed at the good, being a condition for the possibility of morals, relates to the notion of a sentient being in general, including the notion of ‘human being’, whereas the notion of freedom as freedom of choice relates to a real human individual. However, the latter is capable of moral improvement through a “revolution in the disposition” and can correspond to the human determination — the ideal — despite one’s weaknesses. 1. Кант И. Религия ...

• Don Carlos by F. Schiller in the translation of A. Mickiewicz and in the context of the Legend of the Grand Inquisitor by F. M. Dostoevsky

  ... Improvisation» by A. Mickiewicz and the legend of The Great Inquisitor by F. Dostoevsky. It is shown that F. Dostoevsky reduces the ideology of freedom and power, typical of F. Schiller and A. Mickiewicz, to the Evangelical archetype of the three temptations of Christ and the choice between freedom and power — to a metaphysical dispute about the human soul. 1. Кибальник С. А. «Легенда о Великом инквизиторе» Ф. М. Достоевского и «Дон Карлос» Шиллера // Русская ...

• Immanuel Kant: freedom, sin, forgiveness

  This article offers a comparative analysis of Kant's moral philosophy and the philosophy of Sade revealing the paradoxes of the ... ... alongside the idea of forgiveness may be considered as a manifestation of morality and freedom. 1. Гегель Г. В. Ф. Феноменология духа. СПб.... ... М., 2004. Immanuel Kant, marquis de Sade, categorical imperative, freedom, sin, choice, morality, forgiveness Kuzin I. V. 96-110 10.5922/0207-6918-2010-3-9

• Is Spinoza’s Ethics Heteronomous in the Kantian Sense of the Term?

  The prevailing interpretations of Spinoza’s ethical theory view it as an example of heteronomy in the Kantian sense ... ... recognition of the non-subjective notion of goodness. Added to this is my discussion of freedom and necessity in Kant and Spinoza in which I show that Spinoza’s overarching... ... Yovel, Y., 1998. Kant’s Practical Reason as Will: Interest, Recognition, Judgment and Choice. The Review of Metaphysics, 52(2), pp. 267-294. Zammito, J. H., 1992. The Genesis...

• Arguments against Redistributive Justice based on Kant’s Doctrine of Private Right

  According to Kant, “right in a state of nature is called private right” (MS, AA VI, S. 242). It is my claim that there ... ... benefits in the private right. Firstly, I will show how the concept of an innate right to freedom provides no conceptual foundation for a right to enforcement of alleged duties... ..., Oxford, pp. 166—217. 2. Byrd, B. S. 2010, Intelligible Possession of Objects of Choice, in: Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals: A Critical Guide, ed. by L. Denis, Cambridge...

• I. Kant’s and E. Husserl’s practical philosophy

  This article focuses on the problem of reconciling a priori and empirical dimensions of freedom, will, and action as the crucial point for understanding the relationship between theoretical and practical reason in ... ... same time, the possibility of reconciling the obligatory and a priori greatest good with a concrete, practical situation of choice remains an open question. 1. Gulyga, A. V. 1977, Kant [Kant], Moscow, 304 p. 2. Gulyga, A. V. 1986, Nemezkaja klassicheskaja ...

• Rationality in liberal philosophical theories

  This article suggests that rationality has to be treated as one of the basic categories of liberal philosophy. Together with freedom and equality, rationality lies at the anthropological core of liberalism, which makes it stand out among other political ... ... 13. Walzer M. Spheres of Justice. N. Y., 1983. rationality, liberalism, liberal egalitarianism, communitarianism, rational choice theory, Kant’s philosophy Chaly V. A. 29-36 10.5922/0207-6918-2011-4-3

• The hagiographic genre of the life of Alexander (Plutarch’s Comparative biographies)

  ... upbring­ing, adolescence, maturity, his victories, lifetime deification and death. The correlation of the two genre forms helps to reveal and explore the biographic image of Plutarch’s main character as well as his human fate, the aim of life and the freedom of choice. These aspects are reflected in the hagiographic genre. I analyse the similarities and differences of the narrative strategies employed since the narrative (non-diegetic narrator) in the hagiography genre is clearly relat­ed to the non-diegetic ...

• Kant and the Problem of Optimism: The Origin of the Debate

  ... examined the problem in the framework of a polemic on Crusian philosophy. This article presents Crusius’s arguments against the theory that this is the best of all possible worlds and in favour of the theory that there are several good worlds. God’s choice of the actual world owes therefore to the freedom of contradiction (libertas contradictionis) and to the freedom of contrariety (libertas contrarietatis), which are eliminated in the teaching of optimism. Anonym. 1753, Leipzig, in: Krause, J. G. (hg.), Neue Zeitungen von gelehrten Sachen ...

• Condorcet interpretation of probability’s theory: the use of a mathematical construct to the field of social action

  Probability theory, which emerged as early as the 17th century thanks to the works of Pascal and Fermat, served for a long time as a tool of professional mathematicians.... ... predict the results of political elections and formed the basis for the theory of social choice. However, Condorcet’s ideas on the limits of mathematical constructs’ application... ... with Kant’s works, his general ideas on the autonomous subject, their reason and freedom, and history and social progress bear strong similarity to Kant’s views. However...

• On the Role of Gesinnung in Kant’s Ethics and Philosophy of Religion. Part I

  Kant’s concept of Gesinnung reveals the whole range of its problematic potential when it has to be ... ... a uniform translation of the term into Russian with a corresponding grounding of my choice. Abbott, T. K., 1883. First Part of the Philosophical Theory of Religion.... ... Theory of Ethics. London: Longmans, pp. 323-360. Alisson, H. E. 1990, Kant’s Theory of Freedom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Anon., 1735. Gesinnet seyn. In: J. H...