Philosophical Investigations. - Eighth Edition of Collected Articles of Georgian Academy of Philosophical Sciences -Tbilisi - 2004 - In Georgian language.
N. Kvaratskhelia. Civilization Bnchanted by Things. Oriental (Indo-Chinese) civilization is oriented towards inner, spiritual world of an individual and aims his moral self-perfection. The leading role here is played by psychology and religion. Western (Euro-American) civilization in oriented towards external world and aims to reign over it. Here the principal is production of things and industry, technology and sociology and thanks to it we may call it the civilization enchanted by things.
M. Dolidze. Phenomenology as a Science of Being. The work is dedicated to the problem of interpretation of phenomenology in existential manner; resulting in the thesis that phenomenology is the science of beings. Author considers the meaning of existence as unveiling the process of self-formation of meaning, which penetrates all sides of being-subjection being (consciousness) and the objective world.
T. Pachulia. Desert Myth. The dessert myth provides a key the freedom metaphysics. The dessert is a complex of obstacles placed on the route to freedom. Freedom implies constant self-restriction, self-denial for the benefit of certain values. Freedom makes itself felt in the relation with god. It is the dialogue with god, rather then separation from or riot against him. Moses is the interlocutor of such dialogue, breaking himself free from the slavish mentality and laying the foundation for a new frame of mind and axiology. It is Christ who managed to put a decisive limit to the dessert syndrome. The struggle for power and master-servant morale he exchanged for sympathy and love-nourished morale, which led to the ruin of egocentrism.
S. Avaliani. Critical Notes on Karl Popper's Theory "Growth of Knowledge". In this article Karl Popper's theory "Growth of Knowledge" is criticized, stating its positive and negative aspects. It is argued that this theory, as well as K. Popper's scientific methodology in general, contains some logical and philosophical errors. Therefore it is impossible to consider it as the absolute and sole scientific methodology.
T. Mtibelashvili. Some Aspects of the Ancient Greek Understanding of the Truth and Modern European Culture. The pre-philosophical man does not fully realize the border which in fact does not exist and which might quite distinctly separate the natural from the supernatural and oppose them from each other. The situation essentially changes when intellectual streams penetrate into the spiritual space of Greek culture. These intellectual streams gradually make more and more doubtful the basic principles of mythological "meta-physics". As a result the cosmos slips away from them. Besides their own personality slips away from them as well for it lose its self identification with this cosmos and thus loses its own unity and integrity.
T. Mtibelashvili. Some Aspects of the Ancient Greek Understanding of the Truth and Modern European Culture. The pre-philosophical man does not fully realize the border which in fact does not exist and which might quite distinctly separate the natural from the supernatural and oppose them from each other. The situation essentially changes when intellectual streams penetrate into the spiritual space of Greek culture. These intellectual streams gradually make more and more doubtful the basic principles of mythological "meta-physics". As a result the cosmos slips away from them. Besides their own personality slips away from them as well for it lose its self identification with this cosmos and thus loses its own unity and integrity.
B. Lutidze. Social Philosophy as a General Theoretical Sociology. In this article the interrelation between philosophy and sociology is considered. The arguments, that are used as proof of thesis of sociology, as a privet science, independent from philosophy, are denied there. The author tries to show that sociology is a philosophical discipline that is not run counter to its autonomy.
G. Asatiani, G. Baramidze. On Issue of the Structure of Political Philosophy. Political philosophy studies processes of polityzation that take place in societies. In this article are underlined four related each with other following aspects: a) Civil society and state; b) Person and state. c) Just state; justice and law are defined as a natural ideal principles originally inherent in the human race and embodied in the legislation of state; d) Relation between states; They are based on the principle of force of "great powers".
A. Berdsenishvili. The Open Society and Bureaucracy. In the work, the role of the bureaucracy in formation and functioning of a society developing toward the open society is analyzed. Characteristics of the open society are formulated. The open society is considered simultaneously as the reality and as the ideal. The open society is a society in which conflicts mainly are resolved in rational and reasonable ways. In order to clarify positive as well as negative aspects of bureaucracy, the distinction between politics and governing, a politician and an official is analyzed on basis of works by M. Weber and K. Manheim.
M. Chanturia. Criticism of Marxist Theory of Personal and Public Interests. In Marxist philosophy priority is given to public interests and the personal interest had to conform to it. It was placed on the second place. The author tries to prove that there is no society which may overcome confrontation existing between the personal and public interests, and since the egoism is the instinctive and inherent property of a man the confrontation of personal interests, which takes origin from this feeling to the interests, will linger till the society becomes the protector of interests of individuals. But such a society is unknown to the world yet.
B. Porchkhdse. The Phenomenon of Lie in the Process Technical Alienation of Social Consciousness. The phenomenon of lie in process technical alienation of social consciousness is a peculiar unity of a human's social and anthropological features, the sense and function of which basically determine both interrelationship of a human and a society, and the cognitive and creative activities of human consciousness; therefore, the discussion of the phenomenon of lie cannot be justified only with regards to moral and ethic values, and initially, it is necessary to profoundly investigate its gnoseologic implication.
M. Lobjanidse. The Theory of Sociological Organotropism by Konstantine Kapaneli. In this article discussed the theory, its importance and renewals of social organotropism of the famous 20 century Georgian Philosopher K. Kapaneli. Social organotropism is quite original social theory that realizes and solves many public problems. K. Kapaneli belongs to such ideologists who first realized the negative sides of "one factor" theory of society in Georgian condition and tried to explain it on the base of using multi factors, like geography, climate, hydrology, geology, biology and social-economic factors.
M. Lobjanidse. The Theory of Sociological Organotropism by Konstantine Kapaneli. In this article discussed the theory, its importance and renewals of social organotropism of the famous 20 century Georgian Philosopher K. Kapaneli. Social organotropism is quite original social theory that realizes and solves many public problems. K. Kapaneli belongs to such ideologists who first realized the negative sides of "one factor" theory of society in Georgian condition and tried to explain it on the base of using multi factors, like geography, climate, hydrology, geology, biology and social-economic factors.
B. Mamulashvili. Bioethics and World Outlook. The article describes the social preconditions of bioethics, origin and period when the problem of individual's freedom became priority in medicine what in its part revealed in patient's free choice. The work widely analyses the ethical problems of genetic diagnostic practice, also eugenic problems and those of "artificial selection" so called "new social weapon"; besides, the problem of reevaluation of moral values and norms with the help of the above issues is also revealed in the work.
T. Imerlishvili. Genius and Unconscious Character of Artistic-Creation in Aesthetics of F. Schelling. The article highlights issues of the genius and of unconscious agency, connected with artistic-creative process in the aesthetic thought of F. Schelling. An author, analyzing F. Schelling's views on genius-artist and artistic-creative process, notes that in spite of attempts of German philosopher not to equalize genius with neither conscious not unconscious agency, he introduces genius as surpassing both of them; in fact, genius and unconscious agency are identified with each other.
I. Bagrationi. Conception of Art in K. Kapaneli's Organotropism. Konstantine Kapaneli in his scientific research: "Spirit and Idea" suggests new conception of the world perception - Organotropism. The essence of Kapaneli's approach to the issue is finding explanation to art and other aspects of existence with adaptation and accommodation with the organic and biological environment. The author cogitates the essence and form of all the subjects events or processes is pre-anticipated and pre-defined with the environment conditions, enrolling among them geographic and geologic environment.
M. Lobjanidse. Methodological Importance of K. Kapaneli's Organotropism for Sociological Analysis of Georgian Literature. Based on organotropism K. Kapaneli showed the analysis of Georgian literature on one side; and on the other he tried to find its place in the general mankind culture. Hence in the process of research there were many renewals expressed in the following: to create art sociology in Georgia and try to study Georgian literature; to analyze ideology in Georgian literature; to search social psychology of Nation and on this base to discuss literature.
G. Nachkebia. Juridical Awareness as the Object of Philosophical Study. Juridical awareness is the specific form of public cognition, which expresses various stages of the attitude to the law. Hence the juridical awareness is the object of philosophical study. Structure of juridical awareness implies the philosophy of law as well as the highest stage of theoretical juridical awareness. It doesn't invalidate the science of law and doesn't form dualism in the concept of essence of law. Philosophy has its viewpoint relevant to the phenomenon of law and this viewpoint is dictated by interests of philosophy, although the problem of potentialities of law philosophy requires further study.
E. Dvalisshvili. Universal Significance of Life Regularity. The Universe is a uniform live system. The transition boundary between the living and the lifeless in nature is relative. The thought is the basic feature of living beings. The law of life is the basic law of living beings. If the mankind recognize that the law of life is the phenomenon of health and truth and life by the laws of cells and structures of the own organism, real humanism and civilized society will be established on the planet. The law of life is based on the highest laws and as a real informational model of the global thought.
F. Nadibadse. Philosophy as a Science. Narrowing philosophy to a particular field of science (be it even philosophical anthropology) and thus denying philosophy necessarily requires the recognition of philosophy. If philosophy as a science exists, then a corresponding philosophical outlook exists as well and vice versa. Therefore, the statement: "Philosophy is an outlook, but not a science" is incorrect.
N. Tomashvili. On the Foundation of Science. The controversy on the problem of the sources of knowledge shows that this issue is still a problem in the theory of knowledge. The author states that the problem is different in special sciences and philosophy. The foundation of special sciences has two aspects _ empirical and theoretical. The foundation of the principles in philosophy is intellectual intuition. The obvious truth of the main principles of philosophy is demonstrated by the immediate apprehension of the knowable thing via the natural light of mind, though its mechanism is unexplainable and not proved.
L. Gvelesiani. Lucifer's Questions and Expectation of Job. In this article the relation of good and evil is discussed. Lucifer is a symbol of evil, but a job a symbol of good. The struggle between Lucifer's disbelief and job's belief in the goodness of god is a symbolic expression of the struggle between the good and evil in the mankind's life.
T. Panjikidse. Globalization and Traditionalism in the Religious Space of Georgia. According to unanimous acknowledgement, two trends are observed in the world religious movement. One is attraction to post-communist and inter-religious world reflected in ecumenist movement; and another, the opposite one, is the trend of the religion to shut oneself and protect its constituents from negative and unfavorable effects of globalization. The first trend is supported and followed by relatively lately established religious confessions. Traditional religious confessions, historically connected with one or another ethnos, are leaning towards the second trend. Those are not necessarily referred to so-called "national" religions. However they have merged as national religious.
R. Maisuradse. The Basel Evangelistic Mission and German Lutherans in Georgia. The article is dedicated to the Basel Mission's effort to German colonists living in Georgia. The Basel Mission has become a sort of bridge connecting German colonists who lives in Georgia with their native Badenvurtemberg's church.
Archpriest Ilia Tsereteli. Some Theological - Philosophic Trends. In this article the essence of human being, person and phenomenon is discussed, special attention is paid to historical assessments of interaction of religion and science.
V. Makhniashvili. Antireductionism of Rorty -Strategy for Pragmatist Hermeneutics. One of the definitive aspects of Richard Rorty's metaphilosophy is his therapeutic stance towards ontological and epistemological problems. The aconstructivist aspect, for which Rorty might be described as a heir of late Wittgensteinian and of some post positivist projects of analytic philosophy, he expends and applies to both late analytic and post analytic onto-epistemologies and to Continental antinaturalism of "hermeneutical" tradition. The application of the therapy is directed to the attempts of ontological justifications of naturalistic preferences in analytic trend as well as to "post humanistic" humanism of continental thought.
T. Kukava. Ancient Chinese Philosophy. Though old Chinese philosophers didn't create a system in logics, they developed the theories in ethics, politics, the history of knowledge. There were many philosophical schools in ancient China - Conphutsians, Moists, Legists, Buddhists and many others. Confuci was a statesman in the sixth century B.C. In the 5th century confucianity was declared as an official religion. His theory played a great role in the forming of the national character of Chinese. Confuci defended the policy, of human right, decrease of taxes and abolition of State monopoly.
V. Gorosia. The Phenomenon of Alienation in "Dialectics of Enlightenment" by M. Horkheimer-Th. Adorno. In the article the analysis of problem of man's social alienation in "Dialectics of enlightenment" by M. Horkheimer and Th. Adorno is given. The article shows, that Frankfurt school's social philosophy is entirely based on concept of man's alienation. The treatise "Dialectics of the En-lightenment" by Horkhemer-Adorno is the foundation for subsequent comprehension of the alienation phenomenon in Frankfurt school's social philosophy. The conception of alienation in the works of other representatives of this school - H. Marcuse, E. Fromin, U. Habermas - as a matter of fact is the result of detailed and comprehensive guidelines of this treatise postulates.
R. Gordesiani. M. Buber's Dialogical Philosophy. M. Buber calls his existential view as the "Dialogical Philosophy". Though, he is a faithful protector of "Khassidism" - one of the branch of Jewish religion, but he has a great part in construction of German existentialism building. Especially it is noted his activity in the understanding of human essence anthropologic problem. In the contrary to M. Heidegger, K. Jaspers, Ed. Husserl, S. Kierkegaard, M. Scheler and others, he understands human essence on the foundation of basic "Me-You" treatment. This essence is united source of any philosophic-anthropological viewpoint.