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The purpose of the article is to study the importance of Pushkin's work in the age of scientific and technological progress, to identify and analyze the moral values that accompany the work and personality of Alexander Pushkin and are particularly relevant to our time. The article discusses the moral values of honor and dignity, the ratio between good and evil, concepts of duty, justice, love and friendship, happiness, freedom, creativity, patriotism, national idea, peoples’ friendship and the problem of preserving Russian language in modern Russia. The article is written through the prism of interpretation of Pushkin’s creativity by Russian philosophers abroad and modern philosophers. The article deals with the problem of using neural networks that make it possible to reproduce the style of A. S. Pushkin. The author concludes about the relevance of the work of A. S. Pushkin in our days. The issues of preserving spirituality, moral values, national identity, and optimistic Renaissance perception of the world, of understanding the beauty of life, remain relevant and in demand in modern age of rapid scientific and technical progress, both in Russia and in the world.

The paper attempts to investigate literary anthropology of W. Iser, created by him on the basis of receptive aesthetics. It is included a perspective of the historical and theoretical formation of Iser’s theory, as well as an actual point of view, related to the “anthropological turn” of humanities. There is an intention to demonstrate the philosophical value of Iser’s conception. It is emphasized the problem of subjective experience, the key features of which can be revealed through the study of the process of reading fiction. Iser defines his approach to the study of literature as functional, considering fiction as a medium in communication between text, reality and the reader. The focus of attention is on the transformations of subjectivity, involved through imagination in reading. Human presence, linked with a transcendental position, becomes apparent in the process of reading; however, it turns out to be connected with the essential uncertainty, the constant variability of subjective attitudes. Literature is explored as a medium of such an anthropological feature as human’s own inaccessibility for her|himself.

This article examines the phenomenon of moral Service, highlights the main value com-ponents of the concept of Service. The phenomenon is investigated mainly through the prism of social Service in the forms of charity and benevolence drawn from the history and from modern Russia. The enor-mous role of the state and state ideology that guides society with high moral standards is emphasized in the article. Social Service in the forms of charity and philanthropy has deep roots in Russian history, starting from the first Russian princes and the clergy. The mercy is always seen in the history of Russia as the highest value. In modern Russia the strong focus is also set on the acts of mercy. Multiple awards and state prizes have been given to citizens and organizations supporting orphanages, nursing homes, hospices and medical institutions located on the territory of the Russian Federation. The Service is regarded as a form of patriotism. The article highlights the importance of the personality of the teacher in moral and patriotic upbringing of the younger generation. The appeal to the themes of patriotism and Service is illustrated by the example of the Colloquiums of the Department of Ethics within the framework of the educational work in RUDN. In conclusion the author defines the basic moral values of people who devoted their lives to the high ideals of Service. According to the author, this is: patriotism, humanistic aspirations, open-mindedness, high moral ideals, highly developed sense of duty, honor and dignity, tender conscience, altruistic motives, hard work, professionalism, priority of spiritual values over material, self-sacrifice. Service is a feat in a long-term perspective.

In the article the problems connected with ethics of international communication and specifics of work and study in international collective on the example of RUDN are investigated. The questions of professional, moral and patriotic education in international collective have the main part in the article.

The article is devoted to the theme of love in the works of the Russian philosophers abroad I.A. Ilyin, N.A. Berdiaev, G.P. Fedotov. The theme of love is passing as the main idea through all the works of the philosophers. Love for the motherand, for nature, for Russian language, for culture and art. Love is becoming the main methodological principle of the attitude to the world.

The article offers a comparative analysis of largely Western post-anthropocentric antihumanism in its main versions - reactive, technocratically apologetic and critical, and the non-Western humanism as a reiteration of the importance of humanist premises that have never been fulfilled in relation to liminal subjects of modernity deprived of their right to be considered human. The author discusses in detail the intersections and divergences between the Western theories of affect and the decolonial geopolitics and body-politics of knowledge, being, perception, demonstrating that many “discoveries” of the affective turn have been long ago represented in the non-Western theorizing remaining unknown or non-legitimate in the eyes of the mainstream scholarship. This problem has become particularly acute in the context of the discussion of the human, natural and animal, the decentration of the human being as a species and the erasing and destabilizing of the seemingly stable modern boundaries and hierarchies between the human and the natural. The second part of the article focuses on the further problematization of the border between humans and animals in the frame of the so called “autistic regard” which may be expressed both in the form of a scientific experiment and in the form of a performance which is often more efficient.

Interdisciplinary character of contemporary social sciences leads to an idea of propertology - interdisciplinary teaching on property. Economics of property, sociology of property, law of property, political theory of property and others are among branches of propertology. Philosophy of property is to be considered as the first premise of propertology, setting methodological and theoretical basis for multifaceted research into this phenomenon. Structurally philosophy of property consists of the following sections: ontology of property, epistemology and methodology of research on property, axiology of property, ethics of a property-owner, - each of which forms its own area of investigation into property as complex system of social relations and attitudes.

The article analyzes the concept of “politician image” in the historical and philosophical context. Necessity of forming the image of the sovereign, ruler arises with the appearance of a power institution and it is still increasing at the moment. The article discusses the concept of “politician image" and its changes with the age of antiquity to the present day.

The article is devoted to the research of the particularity of the phenomena of love in Russian cultural tradition. This phenomena is studied through the prism of Russian folklore, Russian classic literature, romance, secular paintings of the age of Enlightenment and Orthodox art. In this research the author pays particular attention to the judgments of the Russian philosophers abroad: N.A. Berdiaev, I.A. Ilyin, G.P. Fedotov.

The article is devoted to the problem of the crisis of national cultures in the modern era of globalization. The paper analyses causes and consequences of the crisis, such as processes of disintegration of society, multicultural interaction problems. The authors conclude that the way out of the modern crisis of national cultures is not impossible without ethical approach and a development of sustainable system of values and ideals, uniting nations of multinational states.

The article considers the main concepts, ideas and assumptions of the postcontinental largely non-Western philosophy as a philosophy after continentality — the main divisive principle of rationality, thinking and subjectivity in modernity. This philosophy overcoming the continental (European) thinking is regarded vis-à-vis the postmetaphysical trend in contemporary humanities as a whole and the tendencies of metaphysical revival in relatively new forms. The author dwells at such elements and methodological features of postcontinental philosophy as decolonial phenomenology, a shift in the geography of reason, an accent on spatial histories and rehabilitation of space instead of the previous totality of time, rethinking of the correlation between human being, existence and thinking through the concepts of geopolitics and body-politics of knowledge and a distinction between reason and rationality.

The article is devoted to the problem of the formation of patriotism and spirituality in modern Russian youth. The appeal to the Russian history, promotion of national spiritual values, achievements and victories, opinions of Russian great people, representing its national pride play an important role in solving this problem. Author marks the need to strengthen the ideological education of youth, emphasizes the significance of positive hero, spiritual ideal in the media. In this article author relies on the rich spiritual heritage of the Russian philosophers abroad after October, paying particular attention to the spiritual and moral judgments of I.A. Ilyin.

The article focuses on the interrelated epistemic and ontological dimensions of the global crisis of modernity. The critical analysis of the possible ways out offered within various Western and non-Western paradigms (such as biopolitics and necropolitics) is provided. The author argues for the decolonial (post)continental geopolitics and body-politics of knowledge stressing locality as the epistemological correlation with the sensing body perceiving the world from a particular locale and particular local history rather than a geo-historical location of the knowing subject. Rethinking of the Cartesian formula «I think therefore I am» into «I am where I think» comes along with discrediting of neo-liberal market teleology and the last progressive-universalist vector of global history vanishes together with the last closed utopia of the global salvation.

The article polemically considers the main aspects of the higher education crisis on a global scale and juxtaposes the epistemic, axiological, existential and other bases of the Western and non-Western ways of its overcoming. Specific attention is paid to the comparison between the «Davos culture» phenomenon in higher education and the really existing Intercultural University of the Indigenous peoples and nations of Ecuador, built on alternative principles.

The article presents epistemology, political and ethical standpoints, social-philosophic grounds of the decolonial turn - one of the contemporary alter-modern international projects. It briefly traces the genealogy of the «decolonial option», conceptualizes its latest tendencies and interconnections with other intellectual and social-political models, and considers its future prospects. Particular attention is paid to rethinking of humanities within the decolonial turn.