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Responding in particular to Jon Elster's recent book, Making sense of Marx, considers whether the Marxist vision of selfrealisation is still able to withstand the accusations of utopianism that are often levelled against it. (AM)

Spinoza and Kant are considered to be polar opposites with respect to ethics. The radical difference between them is supposed to consist in Spinoza's ethical egoism, or interest-based Strebensethik, and Kant's duty-cantered, deontological Sollensethik. I challenge this opposition and argue that both in Kant and Spinoza we deal with a notion of the self's realization that is "interest"-based and therefore does not involve self-sacrifice. I show, on the one hand, that the streben in Spinoza's Strebensethik consists in realising one's essentially human interest, which resides in ethical-rational action, and, on the other hand, that sollen in Kant's Sollensethik is in fact a streben of the Kantian "proper self" (eigentliches Selbst) after the realization of its ethical-rational interest.

The aim of this paper is to investigate the differences between "self- realization" within Christian-western philosophy and Faust's self-realization in Goethe's tragedy as received and interpreted in a Buddhist society. Further, the article examines in what way the author Goethe shows an ironical and critical attitudes towards Faust's life and how can Faust be redeemed from the guilt and set himself free from the "karma's" law of cause and effect.

The article is devoted to the theoretical and empirical analysis of professional self-realization of students and the definition of its value determinants. According to the author, the professional self-realization of young people is a stage of socialization, where professional potential is formed and realized; it includes a set of professional competencies and special personality traits necessary for the effective implementation of labor activity. Professional self-realization is impossible without the creation of appropriate conditions, which is as part of the State Youth Personnel Policy: an institutionally organized socio-managerial activity of the subjects of youth policy aimed at regulating personnel processes in the youth environment of the country.The effectiveness of the organization of personnel processes depends on how much this process responds to the values of youth.To determine the value conditions for the professional self-realization of students, the results of a sociological study were analyzed. The study was conducted in 2022 under the guidance of the author among Russian students (N=18,392). As a result of the analysis, two groups of value determinants of professional self-realization were identified: primary and secondary.Primary value determinants are strategic, they should be considered when the personnel policy of the organization building, they are in the area of responsibility of the head of the organization; these groups include the value conditions through which respondents reveal the content of self-realization.Secondary value determinants of professional self-realization are tactical. They should form the basis of adaptation practice for each new employee of the organization and be in responsibility of the immediate supervisor; this group includes the most important value conditions in employment for students who need the opportunity for professional self-realization.The revealed value determinants of professional self-realization can be included in the program of adaptation of young specialists in the organization.

Despite the fact that the sociological notion 'individualization' contains the most heterogeneous phenomena, the article develops an interpretation of the fate of individualization in Western capitalism today. After having differentiated three different meanings of that notion with the help of Georg Simmel, the position is defended that the claims to individual self-realization, which have rapidly multiplied in the Western societies of thirty or forty years ago, have become so much a feature of the institutionalized expectations inherent in social reproduction that the particular goals of such claims are lost and they are transmuted into a support of the system's legitimacy. The result of this paradoxical reversal, where the processes which once promised an increase of qualitative freedom are henceforth altered into an ideology of de-institutionalization, is the emergence in individuals of a number of symptoms of inner emptiness, of feeling oneself to be superfluous, and of absence of purpose.

This book presents a fictional dialogue among four former college friends about Oneness and self-realization. News of the sudden death of a relative occasions their discussion. One friend, a devotee of the Advaita or non-duality school of Hindu philosophy, seeks to short-circuit the pain and suffering characteristically associated with anxieties about human mortality. According to her, to be is to be the ultimate ineffable undifferentiated Being, the birthless and the deathless-the One. The other friends, whose philosophical attitudes are broadly pragmatist, relativist, and realist, inquire in