The Centrality of the Idea of the Good in the Platonic System (2)

This chapter investigates the centrality of the Idea of the Good for Plato's ethics. It is certainly a remarkable fact that just as the Idea of the Good has little presence in the bulk of Anglo-American scholarship on Plato's metaphysics, so it has little presence in accounts of Plato's ethics. The chapter demonstrates that any account of Platonic ethics is seriously deficient if the superordinate Idea of the Good is not the main focus and if the Good is not identified as the absolutely simple first principle of all, the One. There may be a number of reasons for the lack of interest in the Idea of the Good among students of Plato. At least one of these is that it is supposed that Aristotle's critique of the Form of the Good in his Nicomachean Ethics is decisive. The chapter then considers the knowledge of the Forms of the Virtues, and looks at goodness as integrative unity. It also studies the connection between eros and the Good, which is made explicitly by Plotinus in one of the most remarkable passages in his Enneads.

Communicative needs in the structure of the intercourse process

The methodological approaches and tendencies of the study on communicative needs are analyzed, their essence in the structure of intercourse process is revealed in the article. It is shown that communicative needs are an integral part of the motivational aspect of communication, and they cause to establish relationships with other people, express the need for communication and demonstrate its significance and value for a person. It is revealed that intercourse is an integral mechanism, which is studied in the integrative unity with need and motivational aspects. The role of the need sphere in the system of communicative interaction is specified. It is proved that needs are the main driver of communicative activity of participants in intercourse. The levels of formation of communicative needs among boys and girls are determined, and the role of communication in the youth is confirmed on the basis of the experimental analysis of the problem. In the course of the study, the significance of different types of communicative needs for students is established. The leading role of their ego-directed needs in the process of intercourse is stated, including the need to be heard, and understood; the desire to receive help, support and care; the need for empathy and compassion. According to the results of their experimental research, it is found that the vast majority of subjects under study is observed to have higher mean and average levels of communicative needs, that confirms the importance of intercourse at this age. According to the results of the differential-content analysis, two groups of communicative needs are characterized. It is established that ego-directed communicative needs are more important, among them there are: the need to be heard and understandable; the need for care, assistance and support from others; compassion and empathy. It is found out that the needs in care of other people; help and support others; joint leisure activities take the first place among sociogenic needs. All of them have a sensual-emotional coloring. According to the results of the study, it is found that the average indicator of the importance of ego-directed needs is in priority than the average indicator of value of sociogenic needs. This indicates the ego-oriented character of the need and motivational component of intercourse. On the basis of the data of the methodological and empirical research and the generalizations carried out, the program of experimental work is developed. It is used to study communicative needs as important drivers of the communicative process. It is proved that at the same time, the needs of the collectivist-status orientation occupy the last ranks, which should be noticed in correctional and developmental work. Therefore, we consider appropriate to formulate the need for establishing business relations; leadership, domination and control; belonging to a particular community, which is important for the communicative self-determination of young people as the basis of a professional communicative competence.

Integrative character of communication and organizing role of the category of person in the context of anthropocentrism

Considered the problem of relations between such concepts as integration of language levels, category of person and anthropocentrism in the context of the ideas of professor S.G. Ilyenko. This is not accidental, since this problem is presented in her works as having a methodological character in connection with the recognition of anthropocentrism and integration as the main principles of the description of the language system. The key and organizing role in their interrelation is played by the category of the person which in various forms of its realization is present at different language levels and in communicative activity of the person as a whole. This allows us to consider the concept of integrative communicative space, which is represented as a unity created by the interaction of different types of knowledge: 1) knowledge obtained as a result of reflection and interpretation of reality; 2) knowledge of the language system used as a means of cognition of this reality and communication. As a result, communication is the highest level that allows you to compare information at different levels, and forms on their basis integrative unity, the integrity of which ensures the implementation of the language of its main function – communicative.

Conceptual approaches to opening the essence of scientific-research culture of the future music teacher

Actuality of the problem of development of scientific-research culture of future music teachers is reasonable in the article, that it is related to the terms of post of nonclassical science, for which the processes of coevolution and globalization are common, expansions of gnosiology horizon, isomorphism of scientific and cultural dynamics. In this context it is significant rethinking of pedagogical impact of science on personal development of future music teachers, purposeful formation of their scientific-research culture as the capacity for mental analytical and synthetic, evolutionary prognostic activity, creating scientific strategies and research-based search of various “logics” thinking, multicultural dialogue, scientific substantiation multisystem pedagogical and educational technology, possessing categorial-conceptual apparatus of musical and pedagogical theory and practice and establishment of individual concept of the solution of scientific problems in the field of musical education on this base. The purpose of the article is to highlight the conceptual approaches to the concept of scientificresearch culture of future music teachers in the context of professional art education.On the basis of phenomenological analysis and polyparadigmal approach as an integrative unity of scientific and methodological approaches, concepts and theories, the concept of research culture of future music teachers is revealed, which makes it possible, in a holistic and systematic way based on interdisciplinary strategies, to outline the peculiarities of the functioning and development of this phenomenon in a multidimensional educational and artistic environment.

Life and Immortality in the Mind of Han China

By tracing the development of the worldly transformation of the idea and cult of immortality, this article demonstrates that ancient Han Chinese gradually came to perceive the worlds between the living and the dead not as two mutually exclusive realms, though not exactly as identical either. Such a perception also reflects their world view of the human, Heaven and Earth as an integrative unity.

Dynamic Administration: The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett Edited by Henry C. Metcalf and L. Urwick Harper, New York and London, 1942

It is not often that one finds a person whose life work has been entirely concentrated on the development of an applied science of human relations. Such a one was Mary Parker Follett whose papers in the field of management are brought together in the present volume. The titles of the papers included give an indication of the range of problems considered, and their significance in the field of applied anthropology. "Constructive Conflict"; "The Giving of Orders"; "Business as in Integrative Unity"; "Power"; "How must Business Management develop in order to possess the Essentials of a Profession"; "How must Business Management develop in order to become a Profession"; "The Meaning of Responsibility in Business Management"; "The Influence of Employee Representation in a Remoulding of the Accepted Type of Business Manager"; "The Psychology of Control"; "The Psychology of Consent and Participation"; "The Psychology of Conciliation and Arbitration"; "Leader and Expert"; "Some Discrepancies in Leadership Theory and Practice"; "Individualism in a Planned Society".