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• Introducing Sectoral Models into Regional Management: An Assessment of Regulatory Impacts on the Economy

  Regardless of the geography of regions, management at the regional level, both in Russia and the Baltic Sea countries, faces many challenges.... ... sectoral models to assess regulatory impacts on regional economic performance. Assessments of regulatory impacts on product value chains, economic sectors, and regions as a whole show good repeatability, which makes it possible to provide a rationale ...

• Neo-Kantian and phenomenological axiology in N. N. Alekseev’s philosophy of law

  This paper analyzes receptions of phenomenological and neo-Kantian axiology trends in the interpretation of the concept and status of value in N. N. Alekseev’s philosophy of law. The author identifies the role of Neo-Kantian nomothetic—idiographic division of sciences proposed by the Southwest German school of Neo-Kantianism in interpreting the essence of law within Aleseev’s ...

• Application of Shapley value in a regression ana­lysis

  The application of the cooperative game theory model, Shapley value, for the estimation of the regression coefficients and the contribution of predictors to the general explainability of the model is considered. The necessary theoret­ical apparatus is systematized and the construction of Shapley estimates based ...

• Absoluter Wert in Kants Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten

  ... Dignity and Value in the Groundwork. The Journal of Value Inquiry, 52, S. 81-95. Sensen, O., 2011. Kant’s Conception of Inner Value. European Journal of Philosophy, 19(2), pp. 262-280. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0378.2009.00385.x Steigleder, K., 2002. Kants Moralphilosophie.... ... Metzler. Stolzenberg, J., 1988. Das Selbstbewusstsein einer reinen praktischen Vernunft. Zu den Grundlagen von Kants und Fichtes Theorie sittlichen Bewusstseins. In: D. Henrich und R.-P. Horstmann, Hg. 1988. Metaphysik nach Kant? Stuttgarter Hegel-Kongress ...

• Indicators of higher education quality in the context of consumption values

  This article offers an author’s interpretation of such notions as “educational service” and “education quality”. The author describes the existing approaches to classification of consumption values, identifies the components of educational services that are of importance in the context of consumption values, and outlines the prospects of applying value approach to developing educational services at a university. 1. Ефимов В. Потребительские ...

• The alignment of stakeholders’ interests in interfirm networking

  This article argues that the globalisation of markets and the transition to the information society requires the management of modern organisations to develop new solutions ... ... 240—259. 4. Benson B. W., Davidson W. N. III, Wang H., Worrell D. L. Deviations from Expected Stakeholder Management, Firm Value, and Corporate Governance // Financial Management. 2011. Spring. P. 39—81. 5. Bergenholtz C., Waldstrøm C. Inter-Organizational ...

• The methodological features of managing the value of companies introducing "green" innovations

  Although it is a common assumption that innovations are one of the most important factors of economic development, there is a need to review some provisions of innovation methodology so that new fundamental values are taken into account more fully. Most recent business models are based on the depletion of natural environment, whose potential has been almost exhausted. It is necessary to introduce new ideas that are of use for society and create values for ...

• Some aspects of John Rawls’s first principle of justice

  ... Freiheit und Sicherheit im Rechtsstaat. BMI-Dokumentation, Nr. 19. 15. Nickel, W. J. 1994, Rethinking Rawls's Theory of Liberty and Rights, in: Chicago-Kent Law Review. Vol. 69. P. 763—785. 16. Oliveira, N. de 2007, Rawls’s Normative Conception of the Person: A Kantian Reinterpretation, in: VERITAS Porto Alegre, v. 52, n. 1. P. 171—183. 17. Pogge, T. 2013, Gleiche Freiheit für alle? In: John Rawls: Eine Theorie der Gerechtigkeit. Hrsg. von Otfried Höffe. Berlin. S. 135—152. 18. Rawls, J. 1981, The basic liberties and their priority (The Tanner Lectures on Human Values). Michigan. 19. Sandel, M. 1994, Political liberalism (Book Review), in: Harvard Law Review. May 1994. P. 1765—1794. 20. Taylor, R. S. 2003, Rawls’s Defense of the Priority of Liberty: A Kantian Reconstruction, in: Philosophy & Public Affairs....

• Kant on Human Dignity: Autonomy, Humanity, and Human Rights

  This paper explores the new frontier within Kantian scholarship which suggests that Kant places so much special importance on the value of rational nature that the supreme principle of morality and the concept of human dignity are both grounded on it. Advocates of this reading argue that the notion of autonomy and dignity should now be considered as the central claim of Kant’s ethics,...

• The problem of meaning in Social Semiotics: deep semiotics as a conceptual extension of Social Semiotics

  ... record, store, and disseminate social experience. These systems affect the human consciousness to change the semantic picture of the world, behaviour, and the way one perceives reality. Almost all cultural artefacts perform the function of a sign. As a ... ... conventions. Language is the most important system of symbolisation. Indeed, language serves as a guide to the systems of rules, values, and socio-cultural practices. In this paper, I present a model of deep semiotics, which is interpreted as a semantic structure ...

• When and why regional clusters become basic building blocks of modern economy

  In this paper, we examine the modern cluster theory and the specific features of regional innovation clusters as complex adaptive systems. Clusters have become a typical pattern of industrial organization ... ... their role in the geographical and functional fragmentation of production, in the integration of local exporters into global value chains, and in bridging communication gaps and developing collaboration among economic agents. We show that clusters occupy ...

• On the role of religion in N. N. Alekseev’s axiological model of law

  This paper is devoted to investigation of destination of religion in the process of forming of the concept of law in determined cultural circumstances. This study is ... ... Heinrich Rickert. Following to neo-kantian thinkers Alexeev indicates, that genesis of culture is measured because a priori values are exist. Therefore individual is not a creator of these values per se. Value became the basis of Alexeev’s philosophy ...

• The Notion of Free Will in Sergey Hessen’s Conception of Culture

  Sergey Hessen builds his philosophy of culture on Heinrich Rickert’s theory of values. Like Rickert, he believes that the individual plays a key role in the formation of culture. The individual exercises freedom only in creative activity and the degree to which he fulfils his creative potential depends not only on the cultural context ...

• Wittgenstein’s followers vs Habermas: A solution to I. Berlin’s dilemma

  This article analyses Berlin’s negative and positive interpretations of freedom and idea of value pluralism. It is concluded that pluralism of values and liberals’ negative freedom results in the problem of relativism and ‘Hobbes/Berlin dilemma’ — the dilemma between individual and collective reasons. The concepts of freedom of L. Wittgenstein’s ...

• Studies into the history of Russian Neo-Kantianism in Poland

  The article deals with the jey areas of Russian Neo-Kantianism studies in Poland. Although the number and quality of studies on the history of Russian Neo-Kantianism ... ... Augustyn L. 2012, Wartosc bytu. Ontologizm etyczny w filozofii rosyjskiej (Rozwazania wokoł filozofii Borysa Wyszeslawcewa) [The value of being. Ethical ontologism in Russian philosophy (Reflections on the philosophy of Boris Vysheslavtsev)] // Postneokantyzm ...

• Land Use Change and Economics of Land Degradation in the Baltic Region

  In this paper, we adapt a new conceptual framework for the assessment of the economics of land degradation and sustainable land management to the Baltic region. The findings show that the problem ... ... itself through reductions in the provision of land ecosystem services. Using a benefit transfer approach, the total economic value of these losses due to land degradation is estimated to be about 9 billion USD annually. On the other hand, we find that ...

• Numerical solving the linearized inverse boundary value problem for the dynamical Lame system

  An algorithm of numerical solving the inverse boundary value problem for the dynamical Lame system on the base of linearized presentations of kinetic and potential energies is proposed. Results of numerical testing in 3D are presented. 1. Belishev M. I. Boundary control in reconstruction of manifolds and ...

• Local government reforms in Estonia: institutional context, intentions and outcomes

  The local government reforms of 1989 and 1993 were intended to establish a dual pattern of central-local relations in Estonia. The choice of this model was ... ... re-establish central-local balances in Estonia. The analysis draws on institutional theory, which explains the effect of deep value patterns and concrete political choices on the institutionalization logic followed after the 1993 reform. It is concluded ...

• Network Transformations in Economy

  In the context of ever-increasing market competition, networked interactions play a special role in the economy. The network form of entrepreneurship is increasingly viewed as an effective organizational structure to create a market value embedded in innovative business solutions. The authors study the characteristics of a network as an economic category and emphasize certain similarities between Rus sian and international approaches to identifying interactions of economic systems ...

• Transformation of life strategies of the individual under the conditions of armed conflict

  The author investigates the transformation of life strategies of people living in the area of armed conflict in Donetsk People’s ... ... area of armed conflict lose their life goals and priorities, and their attitudes and value orientations change. These basic categories are structural elements of the value-semantic... ... nexus of well-being, psychopathology, and spirituality // The human quest for meaning: Theories, research, and applications. 2nd ed. N. Y., 2012. P. 164—184. Ryadinskaya...

• Modality as a basis of Kant’s philosophical system and its connection to the language structure

  This article examines the category of modality through the postulate of empirical thinking in general and in constructing a philosophical system where functions ... ... philosophical ideas of Kant’s system can serve as basis for a theory of grammatical moods. Kant’s revolutionary idea of values, knowledge, and norms as three aspects of existential reality lead to a conclusion that modality and moods are not identical,...

• Social practices and mechanisms of socialization of uncertainty

  This work is an attempt to develop a social theory of uncertainty. The author carries out an analysis of social phenomena (personality, organizations and institutions) on the basis ... ... the nature and features of uncertainty. The analysis rests on the concepts of multiple forms of capital, different orders of value, and field and habitus theory. 1.  Becker G. Human Capital. Chicago, 1964. 2.  Boltanski L., Thévenot L. On Justification....

• Inadvisable Concession: Kant’s Critique of the Political Philosophy of Christian Garve

  The starting point of my study is Kant’s remark to the effect that Garve in his treatise on the connection between morality and politics presents ... ... international relations was possible and in general deserved the reputation of an (ultra-)conservative. From that point of view the key values for Garve were the security and well-being of the state. I offer an alternative interpretation of Garve’s position because ...

• Measuring social well-being in the rural areas of the Kaliningrad region

  This article evaluates the social wellbeing of rural municipalities of the Kaliningrad region. The degree of social wellbeing is assessed on the basis of an analysis of statistical ... ... the Kaliningrad region on the basis of the following criteria: the share of population residing in the rural areas (threshold value of 50 %); the share of non-residential areas (threshold value of 75 %), the share of agricultural lands (threshold value ...

• Social Facilitation: the Kaliningrad Region and Russian Mainland Regions

  The authors look at the concept of social facilitation as a possible component of Russian social consolidation in the course of social reforms. The article focuses ... ... Socialization: Theory and Research. 5. Hofstede, G. 1984, Culture’s consequences: International differences in workrelated values, Beverly Hills, CA, Sage Publications. 6. LeFebvre, R., Franke, V. 2013, Culture Matters: Individualism vs. Collectivism ...

• Ideas of Kant’s theoretical philosophy in Peirce’s graph theory

  ... figure in the nineteenth-century American philosophy. His contribution to philosophy and logic is enormous. The significance of some of his ideas was not realized until today. As a philosopher, Peirce was shaped by Kant, whose Critique of Pure Reason ... ... because of its chronological significance — it is the last logical theory of the American thinker. Secondly, it was greatly valued by the author, who called the theory his greatest accomplishment. The fact that the echo of Kant’s philosophy is heard ...

• Duty and Coercion in Kant’s Republican Cosmopolitanism

  This paper argues whether Kant’s cosmopolitanism entails a specific theory of coercion. I will especially tackle Kant’s account of international political order.... ... in: Filozofski Godisnuak 17, pp. 81—97. 15. Mertens, T. 2007, Kant’s Cosmopolitan Values and Supreme Emergencies, in: Journal of Social Philosophy 38/2, pp. 222—241... ... Studies 37, pp. 2043—2057. 26. Verdross, A., Simma, B. 2012, Universelles Völkerrecht: Theorie und Praxis, Berlin, 11984. 27. Wenar, L., Milanovic, B. 2009, Are Liberal People...

• Kant and the Constitution of Russian Federation

  This article is an attempt to give I. Kant “credit” for the Constitution of Russian Federation. Of course, the articles of Constitution require significant improvement so that they adhere to the letter ... ... into account two provisions of Kant’s philosophy: the complementarity of morals and law and support for traditional family values. The legal discussions on the essence of constitutionalism, supremacy of law, and constitutional state lack philosophical ...

• Kantian Approaches to Human Reproduction: Both Favourable and Unfavourable

  Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the question of whether humans should reproduce. Some say human life is too punishing and cruel to impose upon an innocent. Others hold that such harms do not undermine the great and possibly unique value of human life. Tracing these outlooks historically in the debate has barely begun. What might philosophers have said, or what did they say, about human life itself and its value to merit reproduction? Herein it is useful to look to Kant, who wrote ...

• Kant between liberalism and conservatism

  Kant has a reputation of one of the chief proponents of political liberalism. However, some of his important ideas can qualify as conservative. Their ... ... far enough 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»,...

• Kants Freiheitsargument. Diskussion von Heiko Puls: Sittliches Bewusstsein und Kategorischer Imperativ in Kants Grundlegung: Ein Kommentar zum dritten Abschnitt. Berlin und Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. 318 S.

  ... Kategorischer Imperativ in Kants Grundlegung: Ein Kommentar zum dritten Abschnitt, presents an attempt to show that, in the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant’s argumentation for the objective value of the categorical imperative is almost based upon the same principle as the one presented in the second Critique. More ... ... praktischer Vernunft. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler. 23. Timmermann, J., 2003. Sittengesetz und Freiheit. Untersuchungen zu Immanuel Kants Theorie des freien Willens. Berlin und New York: De Gruyter, S. 88-145. 24. Wolff, M., 2015. Warum der kategorische Imperativ ...

• Correlation-regression analysis of bitcoin characteristics

  The article is devoted to the phenomenon of a money surrogate, introduced in the form of a bitcoin, a popular cryptocurrency. The purpose of the research is to study the influence of the price-per-unit value of the cryptocurrency on the indicator of the market capitalization of the bitcoin cryptocurrency through correlation-regression analysis. As a result of the research, the author becomes the first to prove the direct dependence of the mentioned ...

• An escape from the embrace of politics. A study into the cultures of remembrance as a means to encourage a historical dialogue in Lithuanian-Russian relations

  This article focuses on the factors inhibiting a productive rethinking of the past in contemporary Lithuanian-Russian relations. The rethinking of the past ... ... reconsideration of historical meanings through adjusting them to the expectations and values of the contemporary society. The author argues that in this process historical... ... Kollektives Gedächtnis und die gesellschaftliche Konstruktion der Wirklichkeit. Eine Theorie der Erinnerungskulturen, Wiesbaden. 8. Cornelißen, Chr. 2003, Was heißt Erinnerungskultur...

• The sustainability of natural monopoly in regional markets: methodological prerequisites for an analysis

  Article considers theoretical aspects of sustainability of natural monopolies, which are the most important industries that create the general environment of functioning ... ... a regional social and economic policy. The analysis of the reasons of formation of the natural monopolies, having paramount value for the decision of a question on their sustainability, has allowed to allocate their hierarchy and to offer classification ...

• Lessing’s Hamburg Dramaturgy in the “codes of hope” discourse of the Enlightenment

  This article considers Lessing’s theatrical project of establishing a German National theatre aimed at founding a “school of morality” in Hamburg. In the 18th century, Hamburg ... ... opposition between the two forms of being — the feudal and burgher’s ones — having become a capital of the new system of values. Philosophy and arts served as a means in this struggle against dogmatism and feudal absolutism. In this atmosphere, a ...

• Social and Economic Space Compression in Border Areas: the Case of the Northwestern Federal District

  The so-called “compression” of social and economic space has been the subject of quite a few studies in the past decades. There are two principle types of ... ... regulation], Moscow, p. 49—60. 20. Rodoman, B. B. 2004, Jekologicheskoe znachenie administrativnyh granic [The ecological value of the administrative boundaries], Problemy prigranichnyh regionov Rossii [Problems of border regions of Russia], materialy ...

• Linguocultural Transfer: Memplexes in the Anglo-Saxon Tradition

  This article considers information transfer in time and space. Following the scientific ideas of the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, the author draws a parallel between ideas and the evolution of genes. Such a parallel ... ... religious components in the modern designation of animals from the Old English bestiary are quoted as cases of reinterpreting the values of one culture in the tradition of another. 1. Andreeva, L. A., 2007. Sakralizatsiya vlasti v istorii khristianskoi ...

• Factors of self-actualization of student youth in the context of cross-cultural interaction and the mastering of a macro-mediator language

  The topicality of this pilot study is predetermined by the necessity to op­timize cross-cultural interaction in polyethnic regions by means ... ... experience”, “Detachment / involvement in the process of cross-cultural inter­actions”. Qualitative differences in the system of values of young representa­tives of the main ethnocultural groups of Crimea, Russians and Crimean Ta­tars, towards mastering ...

• Social capital: a threat of negative application

  The author justifies a conceptual provision that social capital can be com­posed of not only positive but also negative elements. Most researchers, in­cluding economists, sociologists, and psychologists stress ... ... rejecting this ap­proach, the author proposes to proceed from the assumption that the inclina­tion and abilities, education, will, value preferences of the individual, i. e. eve­rything that can be included in the personal capital, can be used not only for ...

• Current Scenarios for the Demographic Future of the World: The Cases of Russia and Germany

  In this article, we explore the demographic future of the world with a focus on scenarios for Russia and Germany. We seek an alternative to the Western standards of scenarios for ... ... embark on the ‘Eurasian demographic development path’ in view of the countries’ geographical positions and demographic values, with children being a dominant one. Otherwise, both Germany and Russia may disappear as national states as early as this ...

• Structural Changes in the Economy of the Russian Northwest: Spatial Dimension

  ... explains the trends in the economic transformations in the Russian Northwest (NWFD). It studies the changes in the structure of the gross regional product (GRP) and economic specialization of the NWFD regions. The authors suggest approaches to managing ... ... rate. The article describes a methodology for identifying the development of the regional economic sectors using the ‘gross value added index’ calculated per capita and per sector against the national average. The article presents the analysis of the ...

• 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 of the term. I make a case for the claim ... ... make every heteronomous interpretation of his practical philosophy extremely unlikely. These are i) identification of moral value in the quality of an agent’s law-oriented motivation, ii) distinction between human nature as rational and affective, ...

• Frolova Ye. The theoretical and methodological issues of the revival of natural law

  This article considers the understanding of natural law from the perspective of neo-Kantian legal philosophy of the late 19th/early 20th century and the problem of correlation ... ... be implemented in the outside world. The theory of standards and ethics evaluates moral foundations as an internal absolute value. However, a definition of morals is meaningful only as an individual experience of a person, social requirements become ...

• 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 ... ... Radical Evil: A Philosophical Interrogation. Polity Press.4. Caswell, M., 2006. The Value of Humanity and Kant’s Conception of Evil. Journal of the History of Philosophy... ... Row. pp. LXXIX—CXXXIV.25. Stocker, M., 1976. The Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories. The Journal of Philosophy, 73(14), pp. 453—66.26. Stolzenberg, J., 2009...

• The Pythagorean-mathematical component of P. A. Florensky’s social philosophy

  This article considers the amalgamation of N. Bugaev’s arrythmology and G. Leibnitz’s monadology supplemented by G. Cantor’s set theory as the methodological basis ... ... fate of a person and the state are indivisible. In the future state, people are units, Pythagorean numbers, or monads that have value not by themselves, but as parts of the whole set; this set-state is dominated by the supreme monad-hero vested with the ...

• The concept of the European Union’s normative power

  Traditionally, studies into a state’s foreign policy focus on the international situation and national interests of the parties. However, such approach does not completely conform to the objectives of studies into the foreign policy of the ... ..., no.1, p. 115–130. 9. Balfour, R. 2006, Principles of Democracy and Human Rights. In: Lucarelli, S., Manners, I. (eds.), Values and Principles in European Union Foreign Policy, London, p. 114–130. 10. Bickerton, C. J. 2011, Legitimacy Through Norms: ...

• Human Development Index as a Tool to Assess Social Development in the Baltic States

  Reinvigorating Russia’s development strategy requires a comparison between the social development of the Russian Federation and other Baltic region states, some of which are world leaders in terms of living standards. The most ... ... analyses the current level and changes in the social development of the Baltic States in 1990—2016. The analysis is based on the values of human development index. Having distinct advantages and disadvantages, this index remains to be the most popular and ...

• The Development of Russian Social Geography: Challenges, Trends, Priorities

  Promoting the development of social geography (one of the most important components of present-day social sciences) is especially important for contemporary ... ... social geography (with their focus on humanities, culture, economics, geography or environment, respectively) not only keep their value but acquire new meanings. The author concludes about the importance and the strategies of further integration within the ...

• A correlation between the components of attitude towards health behaviour in adult students

  This article analyses the results of an empirical study of the structure of attitudes towards health behaviour in students of the age of 25—35 carried out with ... ... Psychology: study of science / eds. S. Koch. N. Y., 1959. Vol. 3. 4. Thomas W. I., Znaniecki F. Social environment, attitudes, and values // Classic contribution to social psychology / eds. E. P. Hollander, R. G. Hunt. N. Y.; L.; Toronto, 1972. 5. Zanna ...

• Kategorische Rechtsprinzipien in Zeiten der Postmoderne. Interview mit Prof. Dr Otfried Höffe

  ... to which Kant’s philosophy, which postulates certain moral principles categorically, has influenced the contemporary theory of justice. Many academics believe such principles to be relative and emphasise that justice lies beyond the remit of science.... ... fundamental principles of justice on the Zeitgeist and the opinions of the masses. The interviewee calls freedom the supreme human value, advocates the idea of a democratic constitutional state (he considers the principles of a social state as a mission of ...