Vol. 12 No. 1 (34) (2021)

Considering the national culture of organizing and regulating life as a social embodiment of the soul of the people, in the historical context of the formation of the narratives of the Motherland and the State, a number of unsolved problems of modernizing national identity, as well as the correlation and reconciliation of the existential and civilizational destinies of the Armenian people, which in borderline situations give rise to problems and challenges, are analyzed. not corresponding to the internal capabilities of the country.

As a follower of the Armenian tradition of Aristotelianism, St. Grigor Tatevatsi (1346-1409) mainly relies on the ideas of Aristotle regarding nature and the Medieval theological literature when expressing his understandings about natural philosophy. Unlike other Armenian natural philosophers of previous centuries Tatevatsi highlights the «natural science» (natural cognition)'' in the system of knowledge. This means the importance of knowledge about the nature and such a change in cognitive attitude towards the earthly world that signifies the importance and necessity of empirical observations in the system of knowledge. In general Tatevatsi introduces such a picture of the Cosmos which corresponds to the principles and requests of the Medieval Christian worldview on one side and has universal character on the other because here the natural-philosophical (cosmological, astronomical, physical) understandings are tied up with those of metaphysical, theological, philosophical-anthropological and aesthetic-moral.

The article examines the different meanings of the concept of border in the works of a number of representatives of existentialist philosophy. The authors who have discussed ontological issues related to the border are in the center of attention: A. Camus, K. Jaspers, J.-P. Sartre, H.-G. Gadamer. The interpretations of the border in existentialist philosophy, although based on the tradition of classical philosophy, in which the epistemological aspect of the border was discussed mostly, nevertheless add a new approach, according to which the border is an important feature of human existence that defines our existence as a situation, project and communication. The physical, social and mental boundaries of human existence outline our existence, makes it from abstract-contemplative to concrete and tangible. Time and space, age and social status, legal, moral norms and other limitations turn our lives into a shift of situations in which we are constantly stand. In existentialism, human existence is connected with those situations in which man has to make maximum intellectual, emotional and volitional efforts to orient himself. As these situations are created due to borders, our existence itself becomes a border phenomenon. It is especially manifested in borderline situations, which force a person to reconsider his ideas about his own existence, life and other people. 

In existentialism, the border is also interpreted as a project, which symbolizes the extent to which other people interfere in the privacy of the future. This interpretation can be found in Camus's teaching on revolt.

Another view of border ontology is based on the interpretation of the border as communication. Through communication a person goes beyond his narrow personal boundaries, expands his limits of consciousness and understanding, notices that he has a lot in common with other people, generally overcomes the danger of being summed up in the "I", loses the connection with other people. Communication is vital in the sense that it delineates the boundaries of human coexistence. 

In the article is attempted to expose the present discourse of the coronavirus pandemic to gnoseological qualification. The analysis mostly focuses on the problem of evaluating with the corresponding characterizations of the mental structures that are presented as univocal true. Emanating from researches of the philosophy of science and medicine, it is argued that all statements of the present discourse of the coronavirus pandemic, which simultaneously claim to be scientific and true, turn into antipodes of true.

The article is devoted to the phenomenology of personal disorders. It is shown that the main symptom of this pathology is selfishness and inability to empathy. An attempt has been made to explain this phenomenon from the point of view of thinking, which functions without the participation of experience and will.

The article presents the counselling psychology as an applied field and specialty in psychology. A brief overview of the formation of counselling psychology as a specialty in US, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia is given, as well as the challenges and trends of the development of counselling psychology are determined. Special attention is given to phylosophical base, identity and methodology of counselling psychology as a special, separate field in psychology. At the end of the article the challenges and trends of development of counselling psychology in Armenia are outlined.