Ideas and Ideals
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2075-0862 / 2658-350X |
| Wikidata | Q96707922 |
| OpenAlex | S4210208247 |
| MAG | 4210208247 |
| Website | http://ideaidealy.nsuem.ru |
| Total publications | 629 |
| Coverage period | 2015 - 2026 |
| Country | RU |
| Language | EN |
| Impact factor | 0.018 |
"Ideas and Ideals" is a journal of philosophy and social sciences, indicating a focus on intellectual history, social thought, and philosophical inquiry. These areas regularly intersect with social theory, a foundational component of social anthropology
Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Central Asia Education and Culture · Chinese history and philosophy · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Cultural, Linguistic, Economic Studies · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication · Economic and Technological Developments in Russia · Economic Development and Digital Transformation · Economic, Social, and Public Health Issues in Russia and Globally · Education and Professional Development
The Philosophical Understanding of the Mythological Origins of Artificial Intelligence, from Ancient Automatons to Modern Cognitive Agents
The subject of the research is a philosophical analysis of mythological narratives about artificial intelligent beings, considered as cultural prototypes of modern concepts of artificial intelligence (AI). It is proved that myths are archetypal matrices encoding fundamental philosophical questions about the nature of the mind, the limits of creation and the responsibility of the creator. The study thus hypothesizes that archaic myths do not conta…
Instructions of Zhao Zhenji (1508–1576) to the County Governor of Dazu on the Confucian Canons, the Way, and the Four Omissions
This article presents the fi rst Russian translation and a philosophical analysis of “Notes on the Chambers of Canon Veneration in the School of Confucian Scholars of Dazu County” (Dazu-xian ruxue zunjing ge ji 大足縣儒學尊經閣記) by Zhao Zhenji 趙貞吉 (1508–1576), a prominent Ming dynasty statesman and an understudied philosopher. The text records a dialogue between Zhao and Dong Ji, the magistrate of Dazu County in Sichuan Province, on the occasion of the …
The Siberian Supertext as a Cultural Hyperpalimpsest: Towards a Problem Statement (Based on the Urban Subtext of Kemerovo)
This article develops an analytical model for studying the phenomenon of the Siberian supertext through a cultural studies lens, conceptualizing it as a cultural hyperpalimpsest. The research is motivated by a methodological deficit in the study of complex regional cultural texts, which require comprehensive tools to account for their multi-dimensionality, depth, and inherent conflict. The methodological framework synthesizes N.E. Mednis’s concep…
Posthumanism and Transhumanism as an Ideology of Digital Capitalism
The crisis of the neoliberal model of capitalism that we observe today, and the transition to a platform-based economy is accompanied by a profound ideological transformation. The article provides a critical analysis of posthumanistic and transhumanistic concepts, which are considered as the ideological foundations of the emerging order of digital capitalism. It argues that, despite their declared rhetoric of liberation, these philosophical movem…
Monument as a Cultural Tool of Human Pre-Adaptation in the 21st Century
Ordering the world of things and phenomena is one of the tasks of symbolic activity as an important anthropological characteristic of man. An individual builds and uses a system of reference points in the socio-cultural space of traditional and modernist societies with the help of objectification and de-objectification of symbols. A monument as one of the forms of symbolic culture historically plays the role of such a reference point: it perpetua…
Trade Introversion in BRICS
The global economy has long demonstrated an increase in the scale of trade, leading to the openness of economic systems. National economies benefited from participation in the international division of labor due to the effects associated with the exploitation of comparative advantage, as discovered by the 18th-century political economist David Ricardo. Recent events indicate that this beneficial process of global economic integration has come to …
Cognitive Turn: Possible Implementation Practices
Improving the system of scientific knowledge inevitably leads to changes in the social reality. In the work “Cognitive Turn: The Change in the Foundations of Intellectual Culture” V.I. Razumov calls the process of changes – “a cognitive turn”. The purpose of the article is to predict their implementation in practice on the basis of the most significant tasks of the cognitive turn. To achieve the goal, the author uses such methods as analysis and …
Mineral Fertilizers Export and Strategies for Russian Organizations to Enter Foreign Markets
In the new geopolitical environment, the mineral fertilizer (MF) industry and market have undergone significant changes. This has also affected Russian fertilizer producers, who are forced to diversify their foreign trade relations and reorient themselves toward countries in the Global South–Asia, Africa, and Latin America. This research focuses on the economic relations surrounding the export activities of Russian MF organizations and their stra…
The Influence of G.R. Derzhavin’s Creative Work on the Formation of a Median Culture in Russia
This article is a critical attempt to understand the phenomenon of Derzhavin’s influence on the ideologies of the median culture in Russia. The research methodology is based on the concept of A.S. Ahiezer. He proposed a “mediational methodology for the socio–cultural analysis of Russian society”, in which there are categorial concepts: ‘inversion’, ‘mediation’, ‘median culture’, ‘inversion trap’, etc. The main issue for Derzhavin was the question…
The Digital Transformation of Society as a Factor in the Evolution of the Political System
The article examines the impact of digitalization on the social structure of modern society. As a result of digital technologies taking center stage in the functioning of public institutions, the position of the individual in society is changing. Modern people exist both in the world of digital networks and in the real world, “online” and “offline.” At the same time, they can play different roles and have different statuses in the real world and …
Common Features of Tengrism and Mazdaism
The Sakha (Yakuts) are the northernmost Turkic people. Like many peoples they preserved folklore art in a living existence. Part of it consists of myths, including cosmogonic ones, which are found primarily in the heroic epic of Olonkho, religious beliefs and in the form of separate mythological narratives. In this work the main attention is paid to the cosmogonic and related myths of the Yakuts, searching for parallels to them mainly from the my…
Conversation Vulnerability in (and due to) Online Communication
The article attempts to analyze philosophically the vulnerability of conversation in online communication. The purpose of the article is to analyze the factors that weaken conversation as one of the key genres of communication. The author notes that the effects of online communication mediated in the format of social networks and instant messengers on direct interpersonal connections have not yet been fully studied, as the emphasis is already shi…
Deep-Seated Problems of Science and Education: The Area of Vulnerability of Russia’s National Economic Security
There is a paradoxical situation in the world. It is becoming increasingly difficult to qualify what is happening as an expansion of military operations in the field of economics and finance or the formation of special instruments of war in them. In these conditions, the roles of economic and national economic security are changing from providing economic and financial activities to determining the very existence of the nation. A perfect system o…
Ideological Heliocentrism of A.L. Chizhevsky
The article presents an analysis of the original concept of heliocentrism by A.L. Chizhevsky, set out in his scientific works. The scientist correlates the influence of solar energy with the factors of historical and social processes. According to his concept, the state of predisposition to the behavior of human masses is a function of the energetic activity of the Sun, the regular sharp rises of which transform potential psychic energy into the …
Financial Culture: The Versatility of the Concept, Approaches to Research
This article examines the concept of ‘financial culture,’ which is particularly relevant in today’s dynamically developing world. The author draws on various theoretical concepts used to define and measure financial culture and offers a classification of approaches to studying this phenomenon. Particular attention is given to empirical studies aimed at identifying the relationship between financial culture and the socioeconomic characteristics of…
Johann Eberlin – the First Utopian of Continental Europe in the Modern Era
This paper is a preface to the translation of Johann Eberlin’s “Wolfaria” (1521) – the first utopian text in Early Modern Era of continental Europe. J. Eberlin von Günzburg (c. 1460–1533) – religious reformer and thinker, humanist, translator. The article brings the brief analysis of his biography, social and political activities, as well as his writings. His ideas are subjected to the research in the context of reformation and humanist movement,…
Apophatic Stylistics as a Version of the Ontology of Art
This article proposes an ontological revision of the foundations of art historical analysis, which has traditionally relied on the hermeneutics of style expressed through a system of binary oppositions (from Wölffl in to Baxandall). In contrast to this relational model, which defines an artistic phenomenon through its difference from another style, the theory of apophatic stylistics is put forward. Borrowing its fundamental gesture from negative …
Improving Analytical Tools for Assessing the Financial Stability of a Manufacturing Enterprise
Financial stability is one of the main concepts in the economy of an enterprise, demonstrating its ability to develop, remain competitive and solvent, as well as rationally manage its obligations. Financial stability is a characteristic reflecting the potential of an enterprise and its investment attractiveness. The variety of methods for assessing financial stability leads to the fact that their application gives different and sometimes contradi…
Dynamics of the Demarcation Status of Theories
This article advances the discussion by S.Yu. Kolomiytsev and N.I. Martishina concerning the limitations of falsifiability criteria within the scientific demarcation problem. The subject of the study is the dynamics of a theory’s scientific status during its development and the relationship between this dynamic and classical demarcation criteria. The methodology employs an evolutionary model that frames scientific status as a variable attribute o…
Worldview Accents of an Educational Event
The article presents the results of a search for an answer to the question of how educational events in higher education affect a student’s worldview attitudes, value-normative foundations, and belief system. It notes the vagueness of the theoretical and methodological framework of the educational technology under discussion, the significant lead of practice over theory, and a reliance on pedagogical intuition. Nevertheless, pedagogical thought c…
The Political Views of the Eleatics
The purpose of this article is to clarify the political views of the Eleatics. The relevance of this work stems from the paucity of research on this topic. Significant gaps in the sources hinder the study of the political views of Xenophanes, Parmenides, Zeno, and Melissus. This article provides a historical reconstruction of the Eleatics’ political views based on biographical analysis and a contextual approach. It has been established that Xenop…
Pedagogical Anthropology in the Context of the Russian Philosophy of Education at the Turn of the 19th–20th Centuries
One of the relevant and demanded areas of modern philosophical knowledge is the philosophy of education. When education is considered within the framework of socio-philosophical analysis as a social institution and a cultural phenomenon, attention is paid to its role in the creation and development of culture. The philosophy of education focuses on identifying the goals and principles of the educational systems, on determining pedagogical methods…
English Aesthetic Thought in the Context of British Philosophy: Stages and Transformations
This article examines the formation and transformation of English aesthetic thought within the framework of the British philosophical tradition. The study focuses on the development of key aesthetic concepts such as taste, imagination, the sublime, and beauty from eighteenth-century empiricism to analytic aesthetics and contemporary interdisciplinary approaches. The research employs a historical-philosophical method combined with conceptual analy…
Religion and Alchemy: Trajectories of Demarcation in the Modern Era
The article is devoted to the processes of displacement of religion into the sphere of marginalized religiosity in the era of Modernity. The research based on various sources related to the given historical period. They include alchemical manuscripts, legal papers, scholarly writings as well as Russian and international studies of alchemy. The following scientific research methods were applied: textual, descriptive, comparative, biographical, sys…
The Legacy of the Ontological Understanding of Truth as a Transformation and the Inevitability of Epistemological Non-Classics
The author of the article identifies the initial context for the assumption of the connection between the ideal and the real, which is the basis of classical epistemology of the XVII century. The author shows that initially such a connection presupposed deep ontological transformations of the real through unity with the ideal. The tradition of the ontological understanding of truth as transformation was formed in archaic times and continued until…
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Three Origins of Poetry
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Carnival of Education: Between McDonald’s and Traditionalism
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