Vol. 8 No. 1 (22) (2017)

Articles

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    The Idea and Models of Civil Society: Development Tendencies, Arguments Pro and Con

    Hovhannes Hovhannisyan
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    The article presents the main stages of development and major modifications of the idea of civil society from Greek and Roman antique philosophy to modern researchers. It discusses two – broad (philosophical) and narrow (the third sector of organizing civil society) – perceptions of civil society and proposes corresponding definitions. Etatistic (controlled), liberal, conflicting, partnership, segmentational and linked models of civil society are analyzed. The expediency of linked and partnership models is substantiated from the position of security and harmonious development of the civic society.

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    The Correlation of Ideology and Utopia

    Meri Mikayelyan
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    For centuries, numerous projects have been raised for the organization and regulation of life which somehow affect human’s perception of the world and his position in life. The attempts to comprehend the social reality are always mixed with ideas on what it should be. And from here derives continuous highlighted utopias and ideologies uninterrupted parade. In the article, similarities and differences of utopia and ideology, as well their place and role in the social life have been considered. Simultaneously, utopia and ideology both prevent and assist the human and society in orientating through becoming a landmark in the social and political life.

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    The Problem of Interrelations of the Aesthetical and the Ethical in Friedrich Nietzsche's Philosophy

    Milena Mesropyan
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    The article considers the aesthetic views of the 19th-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche at an early stage of his work and the influence of the latter on his further philosophical searches, in particular on the formation of ethical attitudes in the late period of his work. Special attention is paid to the analysis of Nietzsche's ideas about the social contexts of the rise of ancient Greek art, as they later formed the basis of his ethical theory about master morality and slave morality, as well as the basis for his discovery of ressentiment phenomena in world history.

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    The Theoretical Background of Application of Projective Methods in Experimental Studies

    Hrant Avanesyan
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    Currently, as usual, there are unsolved questions about the problem of the theoretical and methodological basis of "projective psychology", about its conceptual principles. The article reveals several issues about the principles on which the classification of projective techniques is based, what are their advantages and disadvantages and modern criteria of interpretation and combination with other methods. The main assumption is due to the fact that in the process of experimental studies projective techniques are not appropriate to apply separately to standardized psychometric methods and their relevance depends on psychodiagnostic value, i.e. there is a possibility for a more integrated description and identify of person’s unconscious patterns.

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    Temporality and Partiality. On the Problem of Dissociative Mental Process

    Vladimir Mikayelyan
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    Complete mental cognition is impossible without the separation of its normal and pathologic manifestations. Either way, the process of selfdiscovery occurs as a normal, if normal flow of mental processes, and in pathology at dissociative processes. At the level of objective data, in the case of dissociative identity disorder, we deal with a pathological process of splitting a single psychic apparatus, i.e. splitting of self-identity.

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    Ritual as a Connecting Link of Two Realities of Personality

    Erik Mikayelyan
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    Considering the ritual activity of the person in the obsessional neurosis as a result of the superposition of two realities – the objective (social) and magic (archaic), we pay attention to the neurotic side of this process. We can consider this aspect as a result of violations of the interaction of the individual with the social environment, as a violation of the individual-adaptive system. Repetition of pathological functional structures can be seen in ritual actions which are not adequate to objective reality.

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