The round-table sitting was held on December 13, 2013 in Kyiv. The action was organized by Hr.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy at T. Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Department of Philosophy and Religion Science at the National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”. The guests of the philosophical discussion were representatives of sociological and politological community as well as representatives of arts and media. The round-table subjects include such basic trends for the discussion: the phenomenon of intelligentsia: problem of cultural and historical demarcation; intelligentsia and/or intellectuals; collisions of modern identity and responsibility of Ukrainian intellectuals; intellectuals and modernization of the present Ukrainian society; principle of ”mental autonomy”; social “places of presence” of intellectuals: Ukrainian universities and science; intellectuals in the context of competition of various versions of the historical memory; role of intellectual community in strengthening moral priorities and values of the society; intellectual and authorities; potential of critical discourse in the present Ukrainian society.
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В окресленні тематики як київського, так і донецького круглого столу знаходимо словосполучення «українські інтелектуали» — на мій погляд, імпліцитно проблематичне в обох своїх складових. Ця проблемність, як легко зрозуміти, стосується ідентичності / ідентифікації. Спробую в першому наближенні оприявнити цю проблемність.
The article explores the political-economic mechanisms that lead to economic reforms even if the state is 'captured' with the rent-seeking interests, as was the case in Ukraine in 1990th. The authors argue that unless the social capital is strong enough to solve the coordination problems, the rent seeking can be sustainable for a long time only if the players are coordinated forcedly by an authoritarian arbiter. Such arrangement is mutually associated with peoples' passivity, and inability of comprehending the virtues of market coordination based on the private property rights. Until this public consciousness will change such way, that already emerged market institutions will start crowding out the rent-seeking ones, the deterioration of authoritarian control and coordination due to the technical and societal progress remains the main long-term factor of reforms. Although such deterioration does not cease the rent seeking and can even release it, a lack of control makes it unsustainable, so replacing of the forced coordination with the market one based on universal protection of the property rights is required. Due to this mechanism the market reforms may occur despite absence of either a benevolent reformist government, or even vested group's interests.
The round table subject was prompted by the proceeding of political transformations in Ukraine. The question is first of all in the phenomena connected with the processes of de-institutionalization with raising the status and prestige of political institutions, compromising of parliamentarism, with dangerous tendencies in forming the post-Soviet law system. That is why such problems as formation of cultural-historical and philosophicallegal preconditions of political legitimation, correlation of state governing and political recognition, violence and the nature of legitimation, democratic competition and compulsion proved to be in the centre of attention of the round table participants. Special attention was given to discussion of the role of manipulative technologies in the process of political legitimation, as well as the role of the shadow (informal) institutions as those inherent in authoritarian governing. In the course of the discussion there arose a distinct intention to find out to what extent and how can the objection to superficial character of the political principle concerning the private sphere of an individual, depreciation of values of institutional experience of democracy, compromising of the political one can cause the mass expansion of anomy as the principle of the novel forms of autocracy.
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Нас зібрала тема, яка має наріжне значення для всієї соціальної та політичної філософії. Окрім загальнотеоретичного інтересу, її актуалізують і українські соціальні реалії, повсякчасні трансформації яких раз за разом висувають на порядок денний питання про роль примусу в політичному житті. Небезпека ескалації насильства — причому як з боку невдоволених правлячим режимом, так і з боку можновладців — складає одну з найбільших суспільних небезпек українського сьогодення.
The round-table sitting dedicated to the Russian-Ukrainian war took place on October 24, 2014. The question was, in particular, of its cultural and historical factors and peculiarities of the conflict of consciousnesses in the course of Ukraine-Russia opposition. The participants have analyzed the phenomenon of the hybrid war as anomia, outlined a rational system of ensuring national security. There have been represented the original interpretation of the war discourse and euphemisation of political leaders’ language as the reduction of truth. The myth of the “Russian world” was considered as the basis of mobilization strategies of the aggressor and cognitive structure of its strategic culture. The correlation between philosophic traditions and the method of fighting the war have been outlined.
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