Invitation to an RVP Project on
Re-Learning to Be Human for Global Times:
Challenges and Opportunities
Community and Tradition in Global Times
Coordinator:
Denys Kiryukhin (H.S.
Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, Ukrainian National
Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine)
Globalization is a complex and ambiguous process. It
leads to the formation of a global infrastructure and an
institutional network, such as international
institutions, systems of the world economy, and the
growing interdependence among countries. However, there
are some tensions between the logic of the world economy
and the expansion of Western ideas and institutions and
other cultures with their own traditions and values.
Hence, it is the tension between particular and
universal values, from which a number of theoretical and
practical problems arise.
Today people cannot imagine whether they could live a
life "as it was before". In this global age, it seems
everything, everywhere and everyone are somehow
connected by the media and by the internet. The
socio-political and economic stability depends very much
on our ability to respond adequately to the challenges
faced in these global times, to learn and re-learn who
we are and the meaning of life in new situation, to be
able to dialogue and co-exist with others in mutual
respect, and to understand the process of globalization
in order to seize the opportunities.
The major challenge in the globalizing world is how to
form a community and keep it alive and how to consider
one cultural tradition in the new era. The following are
some specific concerns:
- How are the borders and boundaries between communities
determined in the current global times?
- How
is the global order possible and what is the fate of
national states?
- How do environmental issues
force the transformation of modern society?
- Is tradition an obstacle to
globalization, or, on the contrary, an answer to
problems of the modern world?
- How is it possible to have a
moral consensus in a pluralist and diverse society?
- What threats does globalization
impose on such values as freedom, justice and humanism?
The research team will focus their studies on the above
and other questions based on a multi-paradigm and
multi-disciplinary approach.
Team Members
Denys Kiryukhin, Research
Scholar, H.Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, The National
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Svitlana Shcherbak, Research
Scholar, H.Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, The National
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Anna Laktionova, Associate
Professor, Department of Theoretical and Practical
Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Taras Shevchenko
National University of Kyiv
Anatoliy Yermolenko,
Deputy Director, H.Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy,
The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Mykhailo Minakov,
Associate Professor, National University Kiev-Mohyla
Academy
Tetiana Gardashuk,
H.Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, The National
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Andrii Baumeister,
Associate Professor, the Department of
Philosophy, Taras
Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and Professor of
Philosophy, the Tomas Aquinas Institute of Religious
Science, Kyiv
Oleg Yarosh,
Head, the
Department of History of Oriental Philosophy,
H.Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, The National
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Maria Rogozha,
Faculty of Philosophy, Taras Shevchenko National
University of Kyiv
Artem Gergun,
H.Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, The National
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Anton Finko,
H.Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, The National
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Pavlo Kutuev,
Professor and Chair, the Department of Sociology, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytheistic Institute
Sergii Proleiev,
H.Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, The National
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Olexiy Yakubin,
Assistant Professor, the Department of Sociology, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytheistic Institute
Victoria Shamrai,
H.Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, The National
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine