Keyword: «faith»

The author considers logical and ideological preconditions of formation and decision of question about meaning of human’s life. He designates foundations of religion ideology that let positive disclose theme about meaning of life; analyzes character of presence of this theme within the confines of ideologies, that not give necessary theoretic foundations of its disclosing and specifies, that ability to pose and solve the problem of meaning of life is most important criterion of evaluation of philosophy's systems.

In this paper the author examines the religious rituals, the essence of which is the embodiment of religious ideas, an expression of belonging to a particular religious cult is a symbolic collective actions focused on the metaphysical objects. The author draws attention to religion, the basis of which is the belief in the supernatural, it assumes the existence of bilateral relations between the person and the object of worship. Religious rites continue to occupy an important place in human life, in spite of the modern pace of life and a certain workability in the development of civilization. This is connected with the age-old traditions, as well as the internal necessity of support from above, the belief in the existence of a higher justice.

This article presents the potential possibilities of philosophy, represented through the objective predisposition of this science representatives to searching, systematization and substantiation of ideas, views and dogmas that have exceptional significance for all humankind in general and for science in particular. In addition, special attention is paid to the problem of the relationship between religion and science through the prism of their constituent elements - religious faith and scientific knowledge, which are the objective and descriptive elements of each of the categories presented. The author analyzes the concepts of "religious faith" and "scientific knowledge", as well as the similarities and differences between religion and science.

The article is devoted to the key sources of the formation of philosophical thought in the lands of the northern Black Sea region in the VI–V centuries before the birth of Christ and their influence on the development of Slavic philosophy before Kievan Rus. The emphasis is placed on the connections of ancient philosophical thought with Slavic. The article highlights the ontological aspects of Proto-Slavic philosophy and their influence on the thinkers of that time