The article is devoted to clarification of the categories of need and purity of heart in philosophical and theological works by S. Kierkegaard and their relations to other key categories, such as faith, love, despair and fear.

The article shows how scantily studied Russian thinker E.A. Bobrov (1867-1933) tried to combine the critical epistemology which believes in the cosmological ideas of the category of the knowing subject, and metaphysics, and metaphysics, which accepts only the individual substances. Bobrov identified substance with individuals and called them monads. Monad has a free activity of creatures. You and He - are analogues of I. The hierarchy of monads corresponds the distinctness of their submissions. To Teichmüller three types of existence - ideological, real and substantial - Bobrov added the coordinative Being. He proclaimed the slogan “Back to Leibniz!” instead of the slogan “Back to Kant!” He believed that it would be in Russia, where the personalism is to be developed.

The paper focuses on Heidegger’s own concept of “genuine technology” (echte Technik) as closely related to his interpretation of the Aristotelian distinction between physis and techne. The proposed hypothesis is that three complex concepts “care - work - techne/technology” can be considered as crystallization points of Heidegger’s thought of the late 1920 and early 1930’s, the points interconnected by a systematic line.

Heidegger knew about the existence of Florensky as a philosopher from his listener, Evsei Davidovich Shor (1891-1974) and used his ideas in his “Lectures 1931/1932”. This version, which until recently existed as an unproven hypothesis, received additional confirmation in one of the letters of E.D. Shor to his cousin, Olga Alexandrovna Shor (Dechartes). That was about a philosophical category, equally important for both Florensky and Heidegger: the category ἀλήθείἀ. However, Florensky and Heidegger had different interpretations of the concept, obviously inspired by the Greek philosophical culture. The present article is devoted to finding those links, dependencies, differences and similarities.

The paper examines significance of categories “the divine” and “the holy” for Scheler’s project of essential phenomenology of religion which he presented in the collection “On the eternal in man”. Firstly relations of the original program to the study of classical phenomenology of religion (R. Otto above all other representatives) and to the phenomenological philosophy are demonstrated. Secondly an attention is paid to specific aspects of Scheler’s phenomenology of religion: the description of the phenomenon of the “divine”, which founds the religious, and the theory of religious act. As a result it becomes possible to suggest, that the category of “the holy” is of a main significance for the thought of the author of “Formalismus in der Ethik” and “Vom Ewigenim Menschen”.

The research compares political writings of Russian philosopher S. Frank with those of German sociologist H. Freyer. The focus is on texts written in the period from 1918 to 1931. Both authors study issues on the nature of the right and left-wing opposition, the political Utopia, main features of the revolution, the possibility and necessity of political reconstruction. The authors also view the political responsibility of intellectuals.

The article is devoted to a study of sense of distinction between the openness and closure in contemporary theory starting with setting the concept of open system, through conceptual innovation of N. Luhmann concerning operationally closed systems, up to contemporary discussions on declarations of the movement of speculative realism. It reveals the significant aspect of the polemic of speculative realists against so called correlationism with the help of distinction between two conceptual registers in which the distinction between the openness and closure is functioning.

The article is dedicated to the consideration of major phenomenological ideas in Russian religious philosophy in the beginning of 20^th century. The article presents an experience of phenomenological premeditation of the idea, important for understanding the place of religion in modern society, in context of conceptions “postsecularity” and “multiple modernities”.

This paper introduces Russian readers and scholars to a review article by the Italian Law scholar Giuseppe lo Verde, titled “The Philosophy of the Trinity by Serge Bulgakov” (La filosofia della Trinità di S. Bulgakow). Lo Verde discusses a very complex and important topic in Bulgakov’s thought - his view of Trinitarian Ontology. If by 1938 the philosophy of Arch. S. Bulgakov, in spite of all his authority, was actually not understood by his Russian contemporaries, because of the so called “controversy about Sophia” (Sophiology), then for European reader the Trinitarian Ontology of Russian philosopher turned out to prove relevant. Bulgakov is the only Russian thinker discussed in a separate article in an Italian Philosophical publication of a long-standing tradition and broad international renown.

There is an interpretation of priest P. Florensky work, made by S.M. Polovinkin; the specific position of the researcher and the analysis of the structure of the book are studied, the conclusion about the value of this work for the current stage in the history of Russian philosophy development is drawn.

The article is a report of the “Aleshin Scientific Conference 2016. Philosophy and science: problems of correlation”, which took place on 7-9 of last December at the philosophical faculty of RSUH. The focus of discussion at the conference were problems of correlation of philosophy and science in historical, social, cultural, epistemic and other aspects. The report reflects main lines of discussion of that agenda.