This article is a written version of the lecture given in forum Challenges for The New Generation 2022 . From general positive opinion about democracy today´s world, inquiries its basis. It mentions how from relativism that proposed by some authors and controversial conception respect difference appear metaphysical psychological conditions crisis identity totalitarian domination nowadays not ea...

We are doomed to formulate conceptual structures that are much simpler than the complex phenomena they are attempting to account for. These simple conceptual structures shield us, pragmatically, from real-world complexity, but also fail, frequently, as some aspect of what we did not take into consideration makes itself manifest. The failure of our concepts dysregulates our emotions and generate...

This paper takes on a contrarian view of Banville and Landry’s (1989) landmark article “Can the Field of MIS Be Disciplined?” Notwithstanding its valuable contribution to the discussion concerning the progress of the IS field and its considerable influence on IS research, the article’s interpretations of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and proposed model for the IS field h...

According to Paul Otlet, in order to face the worldwide interdependence which was evidenced in the First World War, we need an international center for the storage and dissemination of knowledge: The Mundaneum (1928). To study this utopian project is to study how positivism, centralism, and monumentalism have determined Otlet’s international perspective. His project of a colossal Bibliopolis co...

Research subject is grounding efficiency and topicality of Russian literature (and its studies) as a cultural project, that could be apologia traditional individual. Methodological basis anthropocentric Erich Auerbach, Dmitry Likhachev, Sergey Averintsev, Harold Bloom, in which literary text analysis, assessment genre structures lead to the conclusions on individual’s state under established tr...

After 133 days of long debates, the trial of twenty three Nazi doctors ended in Nuremberg on 21 August 1947. 1 Seven of the doctors were sentenced to death, five to life imprisonment, two to 20 years imprisonment, two to 10 years imprisonment, and seven were discharged. On the very eve of the announcements of the sentences, 10 essential principles that should in future govern every human experi...