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The article deals with the problem of civil education in Gessen's social phylosophy. Opportunities and the meaning of the civil education concept of S.I. Gessen are reviewed with the purpose of individual's forming and development in the modern philosophy of education. The importance of world view are considered as the main value of civil education.

The paper is devoted to the interaction between science and religion in the theory of famous british philosopher of science Michael Polanyi. There is an analysis of relations between scientific and religious beliefs. According to Polanyi the religious cult provides a man with euristic vision of reality. Polanyi had a great impact into "untraditional" conception of truth.

Semantic maintenance of the concept "globalization" is examined, its wide and
narrow interpretations. It becomes firmly established that global integration is the
quantitative state of globalization, indicative on the scale of what be going on in society changes, and universalization is the description of the high-quality state of globalization. Processes of modernisation, internationalization, transnatonalization and
liberalization are methods, relations, structures and principles which accompany the
process of rapprochement of societies in global unit. Modern globalization on the
stage of technogenesis presents not simply socio-economic and socio-biospheric
process, and more vast is a technogenic socio-biospheric process of co-operation of
technogenic society, its technosphere and transformed biosphere.

The book about the objective laws of nature and society. Based on the paradigms of positivism and dialectical materialism proposes a new concept of civilization development. The author violated the unwritten ban on study of the relationship between society and the social elite, analyzing their driving forces and mechanisms. The detailed classification of the social elite introduces a number of new concepts and categories and is based on the thesis about the parasitic elite functions in a social environment. As the main driving force of civilization development is the confrontation of the State and Society.

The report attempts to incorporate Denis Diderot's relationship with Alexei Naryshkin (1742-1800) into the real context of the specific circumstances of the life of this character and his family, as well as to compare their views on the civilisation of Russia. Comparing the views of Diderot and Naryshkin expressed in completely different in time writing, form and purpose of works, the author does not seek to trace the filiation of their ideas; it seems more important to him to establish common subjects of their reasoning, so that he can then understand what unites them and what distinguishes them from each other. Among such common subjects are their ideas about the role of the Commission of Catherine II, the image of Moscow (Diderot — in comparison with the image of Petersburg), the interest of both authors in history, the thesis about the "rotating" West and "healthy" Russia, the recognition of the need for the development of any society on its own basis. ; Der Aufsatz verfolgt das Ziel, das Verhältnis Denis Diderots zu Aleksej Vasil'jevič Naryškin (1742-1800) in den Kontext der Lebensumstände bzw. der Familie des letztgenannten einzubetten und darüber hinaus die Ansichten der beiden in bezug auf die russische Zivilisation zu vergleichen. Folglich beansprucht der Verfasser nicht, den Ursprung der Ideen nachzuvollziehen, wie sie in den je nach Zeit der Niederschrift, Form und Zielsetzung unterschiedlichen Schriften zum Ausdruck kommen. Vielmehr ist er darum bemüht, gemeinsame Themen ihrer Reflexion aufzuspüren, um besser zu verstehen, welche Auffassungen Diderot und Naryškin teilten bzw. in welchen Punkten sie voneinander abwichen. Dazu gehören etwa die Ansichten der beiden Autoren zur Rolle der von Katharina II. einberufenen Gesetzgebenden Kommission, ihr Bild von Moskau (Diderot vergleicht beispielsweise die Stadt mit Sankt Petersburg), ihr Interesse an der Geschichte, die These von dem "verfaulenden" Westen bzw. der "moralischen Integrität" Russlands und schließlich die Idee, dass sich jede Gesellschaft auf ...