Daniil Dorofeev

Saint Petersburg Mining University · Department of Philosophy

The article is intended to emphasize the essential significance of Max Scheler, one of the leaders of the "Munich phenomenology", in the phenomenological movement of the twentieth century, because his role in it is clearly understated today and his phenomenology does not simply amount to a historical context. The author examines the reasons why Sch...

The article is devoted to the topic of visualization, which is relevant for the modern world in general and scientific knowledge in particular, investigated through the image of Plato in Antiquity and in medieval Orthodox painting. Using the example of Plato’s iconography as a visual message, the authors want to show the great potential for the dev...

The article is devoted to the study of ontological, aesthetical and anthropological features of visual communication in Plato and Thomas Mann. I compare T. Mann’s Death in Venice artistic conception with the philosophical understanding of the image, contemplation, beauty and Eros of Plato, primarily in the dialogues Phaedrus and Symposium (with som...

An article dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Joseph Brodsky examines the meta­physical and religious aspects of the poet’s understanding of the language. The au­thor explores the problem of the evolution of Brodsky's attitude to religion through the material of his numerous interviews and essays, showing that his particular po­etic religiosity,...

The article is devoted to the study of the diverse manifestations of the phenomenon of religious wandering in Russian culture, especially the 19th century, with the study of their external aesthetic image, way of life, Orthodox foundations and principles, characteristic language, methods of organization and institutionalization. The author consider...

The article is devoted to the study of the diverse manifestations of the phenomenon of religious wandering in Russian culture of the 19th century, with the study of their external aesthetic image, lifestyle, Orthodox foundations and principles, characteristic language, methods of organization and institutionalization. The author considers the conce...

The article was written on the basis of a speech at the 3rd Bibikhinsky Readings in Bezhetsk in October 2021. The article is devoted to the philosophical-anthropological and personalistic analysis of the concepts of authentic and inauthentic; it begins with a brief study of the most crucial concepts of Heidegger's Being and Time “eigentlich” and “u...

The article is devoted to the study of the reception of the ancient heritage in European culture and its importance for the development of Russian natural science in XVIII century. For this purpose the author turns to the well-known Russian scientist and teacher Vasily Mikhajlovich Severgin (1765-1826), who was the author of the first Russian trans...

The purpose of this work is to study the visual and acoustic relationship of painting and music in the Middle Ages. When writing the article the authors focused on modern sources and used such important for the socio-humanitarian sciences methods of research as comparative, phenomenological, semiotic, art history, cultural studies and visual anthro...

The article is devoted to the study of philosophical significance of visual and plastic iconography of ancient philosophers as a special way of education and formation of human image, landscape of the city and culture as a whole. The author seeks to identify and analyze as much as possible the presence of such images in St. Petersburg, primarily in...

The article is dedicated to the anniversary of Boris Vasilyevich Markov, the famous philosopher of Saint Petersburg, Russia. The author of the article, basing on many years of personal experience and professional communication with the hero of the day, presents an expressive and holistic image of Markov as a person and as a philosopher according to...

Introduction. The paper substantiates the application of aesthetic characteristics to the examination of the image of Russian elders. It is proposed to move away from the traditional understanding of aesthetics only as a philosophy of art and beauty and consider it as a knowledge of the unique expressiveness of the essence of a sensually perceived...

Introduction. The paper is devoted to the problematization, updating and analysis of the development prospects of modern philosophical anthropology. The author seeks to clearly define the concept, status and position of philosophical anthropology among philosophical disciplines, identifying problems in this area, including those associated with the...

The article is devoted to anthropological problems of the human image in the history of culture and philosophy of the twentieth century and in processes of visualization of political communication in the postmodern era. In the first part of the article, it is proposed to consider the transition from the modern era to the postmodern era in the conte...

The article is devoted to Plato's Alcibiades I and explores its main question: what is your proper self? The author pays special attention to the concept of "ayto to ayto", which he takes to mean "selfhood". This concept is analyzed as the first fundamental philosophical form of understanding of human identity, which Plato viewed as a soul. Plato f...

The article investigates the principle of fundamental mutual relation of aesthetics and ethics in ancient philosophy. The author analyses the aesthetic component of life and phenomenal image of Greek and Roman philosophers, as a manifestation of their installation "self-care" in the practical life of everyday existence. The philosophy is meant as a...

We hereby present to the reader a translation of a fragment of one of Max Scheler's main works, The Nature of Sympathy. Max Scheler was the most important figure in the philosophical life of Europe in the 1910-20s in phenomenology, axiology and philosophical anthropology. This work is an example of expressive, original and deep interconnection and...

The acoustic and visual understanding of man is a hotly debated issue in contemporary culture. I found it important therefore to look at certain historical, cultural, aesthetical, philosophical and anthropological peculiarities of human image in Antiquity as reflected in the arts. The following aspects deserve special attention: the visualization o...