Convergence of ideas: from the ancient pirates to the scientific community (M.K. Petrov’s hypothesis against the background of historiography and science of science)
V.P. MAKARENKO
Doctor of Political Sciences and Philosophy (DsC), Professor, Honored worker of science of the Russian Federation, Member of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Director of the Center of Political Conceptology, North Caucasus Research Institute of Economic and Social Problems, Southern Federal University
Doctor of Political Sciences and Philosophy (DsC), Professor, Honored worker of science of the Russian Federation, Member of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Director of the Center of Political Conceptology, North Caucasus Research Institute of Economic and Social Problems, Southern Federal University
TERRA ECONOMICUS, 2013, Vol. 11 (no. 4.1),
p. 102-119
The paper describes the «human-state» concept formulated by the philosopher M.K. Petrov. The author shows the controversies of the concept. A complex of the opposite assertions is stated in the article: religious eschatology is not associated with psychological stress before the attack; the process of creativity training is free from administrative longing for omniscience; the genesis of science is not related to the activities of the pirates and their creative and destructive campaigns at the agrarian state; creativity is the product of free choice, not the result of the pressure of circumstances; making scripture of any text by canonization does not block the universal ability of creativity; the sum of technologies has changed from antiquity to the ХVII century; any rationalization opens the way for the new; sociality does not consist of stabilizing and creative elements; there is no connection between the agricultural community and the state apparatus; the development of society is associated with the use of individuals’ talents to ensure stability; the civil virtues exists independently of the relationship between professional and public skills: the state is needed even if it does not provide security for individuals; the competition between the state, the pirates and agriculture does not exist; the state is indifferent to the problem of its own survival; pirates and farmers are the creators of statehood; the state apparatus must not correspond to abilities of a person, but a person must be adjusted to its requirements; a city does not consists of many individuals-states, and the legislative and executive activity has nothing to do with them. In order to resolve the dispute the author places it in the context of Fernand Braudel's historiographical concept and Lewis Hyde’s theory of the gift.
Keywords: M. Petrov’s social philosophy; F. Braudel’s historiographical concept; the theory of the gift by L Hyde; political and philosophical comparative studies
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Publisher: Southern Federal University
Founder: Southern Federal University
ISSN: 2073-6606
Founder: Southern Federal University
ISSN: 2073-6606