Memory means initially not an ability to learn but the whole of spirit in the sense of a constant inner concentration. There’s no memory independent of my specific efforts. We do not remember anything if we understand our memory as a storage, a mechanical set of events, knowledge, opened truths that lie like potatoes in a bag and wait for an event to illuminate them, to cause them to life. Memory has a virtual being and only through my participation, through the efforts of my imagination it may become relevant. Memory is a set of metaphysical experiences, when our thoughts and our imagination recreate the full meaning of what has happened, make it “pure” and show it “in splendor and truth”, which actually did not exist.

The article considers the issue of M. Mamardashvili’s phenomenology of the event with a special emphasis made on the concept of inner word, that is viewed as a crossing-point between the poetical principles of Mamardashvili’s philosophical speech, his ontology of the event and certain historic-philosophical aspects of his thought.

The paper contributes to the question “Why does logic study reasoning?” (C.S. Peirce’s position). Despite American scholar treated the principal issue of logic differently, his every definition deals with reasoning. To understand the essence of reasoning, he analyses that cognitive activity method by means of semiotics or diagrammatical theory methods, i.e. existential graphs theory. Peirce supposes that reasoning study approaches our understanding of knowledge discovery process.

The paper deals with the evolution of Heidegger’s theory of technics in the context of his phenomenological interpretation of Aristotle’s treatise Physica B,1. The principal hypothesis is that the interpretation of the relation between physis and techne builds a conceptual model which is typical for Heidegger’s questioning concerning contemporary technics, i.e. his later theory of the dual-faced technics as the “greatest danger” of the oblivion of Being on the one side and the “saving power” which provides an opportunity to come back to the right and proper mode of Being on the other.

This paper argues that Husserl’s phenomenology is the result of a kind of synthesis of the various propositions and methods, including competing, research programs: positivism, descriptive and empirical psychology. The article compares the ontological and epistemological factors for the phenomenology and programs competing with it. Husserl’s position regarding ontological status of the consciousness and natural world Husserl introduced a distinction between the ontological status of the entities and the essential judgments which formal structure is determined by laws of the consciousness functioning.

The article analyzes the influence of Leibniz’s philosophy at the philosophy of Archbishop Nicanor (Brovkovich). One of the most important aspects of the philosophy of Arch. Nicanor is a doctrine of individual substances - Eidoses. Eidoses in the philosophy of Arch. Nicanor are similar to Leibniz’s Monads, despite their Platonic origin. The paper analyzes how the Arch. Nicanor, conscious of his dependence on Leibnitzianism, draw the line between his doctrine of Eidoses and the Leibniz’s doctrine of Monads. As a result, it is concluded that the Archbishop Nicanor produced such a transformation of Leibnitzianism that became the main characteristic for all subsequent Russian Christian personalism.

The article is devoted to a relation of concepts of the time and cult in F. Rosenzweig’s book “The Star of Redemption”. The semantic center of Rosenzweig temporal concept is analyzed: time in the I and You dialogue, the time and revelation. Further it is analyzed how the idea of dialogue is connected with an idea of church, Rosenzweig’s view of a correlation of Judaism and Christianity is analyzed too. The Judaism and Christianity within his metaphysics appear as stages of revelation which has to come to the end with synthesis of two religions. Relation of concepts of time and church (community) is considered. In this regard becomes apparent that time has salvation character and thus is indissoluble from a cult. Thereby, this article attempts to investigate the synthetic quality of time in “The Star of Redemption”.

In this article author examines main theses of Emile Durkheim’s sociology of religion in the context of modern strategies for rethinking of secularization. The purpose of the article is not only to emphasize critical remarks by main authors against Durkheim’s theory of religion, but also to demonstrate how the latter may turn out to be useful for the beginnings of new understanding of the secular and religious, by Mil-bank, Asad and Taylor including.

The paper focuses on the problem of anthropodicy by Jacob Gordin (1896-1947). For the study of this problem, he was apparently inspired by the discussions at the Free Philosophical Association in 1921. Gordin places this problem in the wide intellectual context given by the ideas of the Russian religious philosophy, German classical philosophy, Neo-Kantianism, and the West European and Jewish mysticism (cabbala). Making a comparision of Hermann Cohen’s anthropodicy with the conceptions of Russian religious philosophers, the paper reconstructs the philosophical position of Gordin to the problem of anthropodicy. His lecture named “Anthropodicy”, append to the paper, was given in the Philosophical Circle at the Petrograd University in December 1921, and it is published here for the first time.

The review is dedicated to the International Scientific Conference of A.I. Aleshin memory. Theme of the conference was associated with the scientific interests of the A.I. Aleshin - the history of philosophy as a philosophical issue.

The article is devoted to a conference in the memory of outstanding social thinker and sovietologist Nataliya Kozlova (1946-2002). It deals with the memorial and conceptual context of the event and its significance for colleagues, students and followers. The article reveals the challenge to modern social science by the updating of the scientist’s method and ideas. The authors present a review of the results of the conference with summaries of the main reports and discussions.

The article presents the record of the round table “Axiological and communicational aspects of the humanities in the system of education” (March 31, 2016, RSUH) held at the international scientific forum “Humanitarian scientific conference of RSUH-2016”. During the discussion key issues for the Humanities and the developing prospects of the humanitarian research areas raised.

The review presents the record of the scientific conference “Garden of forking paths: Rozanov, Florensky, Olsufiev et cetera”. Conference was held at the faculty of philosophy of Russian State University of the Humanities and V.V. Zenkovsky Society of Historians of the Russian Philosophy with Pr. Pavel Florensky Foundation for Science and Culture on May 28, 2016.