Editorial. Philosophy: In Search for Knowledge and Ways of Life (2)

• Authors: Tajsin Emily
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Philosophers of the world are still discussing the most important philosophi-cal event that was held in August 2013, in Athens, the birthplace of all Europe-an culture and wisdom: the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy. The World Congresses of Philosophy occur only every five years. In preparing for this truly historic event, as a prelude to the Congress, the Kazan Branch of the Russian Philosophical Society (Kazan is the capital of Tatarstan Republic, Russia) held in April 26–27, 2013, the International Con-ference “Towards the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy: Philosophy as In-quiry and Way of Life.” The hosting institution was the Department of Philoso-phy of the Kazan State Power Engineering University. The conference was at-tended by over 170 scholars, mainly Russians. This Dialogue and Universalism issue contains materials, sometimes modi-fied, selected from those presented at the Kazan Conference, and also some papers whose authors did not participate personally, but which suit well the theme. The conference program included presentations by scholars from all over Russia, from Yakutsk to Makhachkala (North – South) and from Tver to Khaba-rovsk (West – East). Kazan welcomed Russian and foreign guests, especially the key-note speakers Marc Lucht, Panos Eliopoulos, and Vladimir Przhilen-skiy. Numerous countries and cities participated in the conference: besides Bulgaria (Sofia), Greece (Athens, Tripoli), and USA (Blacksburg) those were Azerbaijan (Baku, Nakhchivan), Belarus (Minsk), Uzbekistan (Tashkent, Navoi), Kazakhstan (Kostanay), Ukraine (Kiev, Kharkiv, Mariupol), and of course Russia. Big cities like Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Ekate-rinburg, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Saratov, Krasnoyarsk, Samara, Yaroslavl, Barnaul, Voronezh, Krasnodar, Kursk, Tyumen, Chelyabinsk and Omsk sent their scholarly emissaries. Likewise, representatives of smaller ones as Balashikha, Yelabuga, Izhevsk, Yoshkar-Ola, Naberezhnye Chelny, Yakutsk, Nerungri, Nizhnekamsk; Grozny, the capital of Chechnya; Makhach-kala, the capital of Dagestan; Nukus (Karakalpakstan) participated in the Con-ference. I am deeply convinced that philosophy had always been and still remains a teaching about the means of creating worldviews in accordance with laws of nature, society, and cognition, in a systematic, mainly scientific way, thus shap-ing ways of living. The organization of the conference sessions has followed this idea: — Section 1. Ontology, theory of knowledge, epistemology. Activity in these most sophisticated theoretical areas of philosophy is a key feature of the Kazan academic life, where two philosophical schools engaged in ontological and gnoseological researches function. — Section 2. Social and political philosophy. Social philosophy is one of the most actively developed philosophical fields in today’s Russia. — Section 3. Ethics, aesthetics, axiology. Since, in my view, philosophy is not based only on scientific results but in-volves also religious views — Section 4 was dedicated to dialogue between philosophy, science and re-ligion. This panorama reflects the situation in contemporary Russian philosophy. Looking back today, we can ascertain that the Kazan Conference “Towards the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy: Philosophy as Inquiry and Way of Life.” was a valuable contribution to the universal task of attaining philosophical knowledge in order to find and elaborate ways of better human life in the world we dwell. This Dialogue and Universalism issue has been organized according to those ideas which lie in the foundation of the Conference. However, we decided to set a different division of its contents in order to highlight the leading ideas as clearly as possible. Thus, two parts of the collection correspond to two main philosophy’s tasks and at the same time two areas of philosophical activity sig-nalized both in the title of the conference and in the title of the Dialogue and Universalism issue.

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 9-10

Contributors

author

Tajsin Emily

• Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia