The time has come to detonate an atomic bomb in your mind - to define the concept of “Ideal”. This is important for every person to do. Explode all the nonsense in your head. This is almost the hardest task you can think of. 1. What is the Ideal? The ideal is the sum of the Standards of my value system and the consequences from it, projected onto Reality. This is what I want to have.

The publishing house Common Place published a book by philosopher, anthropologist and culturologist Elena Petrovskaya “Indignation of the Sign. Culture versus transcendence." The work introduces the concept of a dynamic sign , challenging conventional semiotic models, and thereby calls into question transcendence, since the sign understood in this way does not duplicate the world, but turns out to be its direct agent.

Satan the Wasteful (1920) is a philosophical trilogy about war, one of Vernon Lee's most experimental and political works, which is a collection of essays, shadow theater and ballet at the same time. Amanda Gagel examines this modernist masterpiece, which condemns the patriotism of a Europe at war and offers her own vision of its possible peaceful future. Translation from English was carried out by Taisiya Frolova, editor. Ilya Deykun John SingerSanrgent. Portrait of Vernon Lee.

Alexander Panchin posted a text on philosophy on his FB. Panchin is a well-known popularizer of science and his opinion seems important to me. I'll try to comment on his post. Panchin identifies six ways of using the term “philosophy”: 1) history of philosophy 2) protoscience 3) a type of fiction 4) loose reasoning of scientists about their science 5) any worldview 6) academic discipline.

http://www.kladz.ru/gazeta.html Workers line up at the cash register, receiving meager salaries without much emotion. And then they go to the boss’s office, where the treasured envelope with real earnings, for which they work, awaits them. This so-called “black” money... The reason for their appearance is simple: the employer does not want to pay taxes. The employees understand everything perfectly and are not particularly worried about this. In the end, the money pays, and the rest is details.

A person who needs to go to the store can not only make the necessary purchases, but also enjoy the opportunity to walk. A person who buys a paper book may gain additional pleasure from the opportunity to visit a bookstore and spend some time looking at books.

Part one. Part two - “mass to distance” - https://syg.ma/@andrei-khanov/vriemia-shkala-ghluposti (postmodern study of the nature of human ideas about nature...) © 2019 — Khanov Andrey Vladimirovich (Andrei Khanov) http://philosophystorm.org/o-tsvete Why are there seven colors, like notes? “How once Jacques the city bell-ringer broke a lantern” (“Every hunter wants to know where the pheasant sits”). Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. What is the point of this listing of colors?

“I agree that thought is a complex phenomenon. It has components. Are content and energy its components? I suggest you understand, because we are talking about the main component of life - thinking, especially about its root, universal composition. Definitely, any thought has a symbol that acts as an intermediary between a person and reality. Can a thought exist without a sign? No. Why?