Marginality In The Socio-Philosophical And Juridical Dimensions: The Experience Of An Interdisciplinary Approach

This article is devoted to the problem of social marginality, considered in the research key of social philosophy and the general theory of law. In recent decades, the socio-cultural reality has been significantly transformed: in the life of modern society penetrated the latest information technologies that have arisen due to the rapid development of electronics, in addition, there was the formation and spread of a new type of attitude and worldview, which was conceptualized in the philosophical, cultural, religious and other practices of globalizing space today. The epistemic field that exists between the two disciplinary practices (theory of law and social philosophy) allows us to see marginalization as an epiphenomenon of transformations of modern society.The authors begin their theoretical and applied study of marginality with a comprehensive study of its generic property, i.e. with a study of marginality as such. In this paper, we analyze the semantic and etymological meanings of marginality, consider a wide range of philosophical, sociological and historiographic issues, legal aspects that explain the generic properties of marginality, which allows, in the authors' opinion, to identify the essential and cognitive aspects of this phenomenon, to establish a causal complex of mutual influence marginality on the state of social order as well as offense, and vice versa

Legislative initiative: concept, features

To increase legislative initiative right efficiency it is necessary to settle the mechanism of such right realization at legislative level

Anthropology of Salvation in Russian Medieval thought: «Nestyazhateli» and «Iosiflyanie»

This article analyzes the anthropocentric aspects of Russian Orthodox thought. It is noted that the Russian traditional self-consciousness inherited the main religious and moral norms and values of Byzantium, such as contemplation, Hesychasm, careful preservation of dogmatic and ceremonial aspects of faith. The authors of the article conclude that the central problem in Russian Orthodox thought is the problem of human justification, the problem of understanding human essence. Starting with the understanding of the problem of theodicy, Russian Orthodox thought gradually turned into its visibly formal opposite and became essentially a philosophy that proves the high creative purpose of man - a philosophy that justifies man. Thus, the humanistic, anthropocentric direction of the development of Russian religious philosophy is emphasized. Also, turning to the analysis of the dispute between «Iosiflyane» and «Nestyazhateli», the authors of the article identify two opposite conceptual approaches to the philosophical interpretation of the essence of man: «contemplative man» and «active man».The authors conclude that Russian state policy has been mostly «Iosiflyanian», and the philosophy became a haven for «Nestyazhatel»

The Social and Historical Impact on the Formation of Russian Medieval Spirituality

This article analyzes the ways of influence of religious worldview on the spiritual life of Western and Eastern Europe. Considering the arguments in favor of the existence of such a phenomenon as a universal «European worldview», the authors conclude that despite the existence of common grounds, the spiritual life of Western Europe and Eastern Europe (in particular Russia) have fundamental differences. The authors pay special attention to the figure of St. Sergius of Radonezh who was the embodiment of Russian medieval spirituality. The Saint harmoniously combined «clever prayer» with practical patriotic activity, thus following the principle of «energetic love». The article also analyzes the «contemplative» and «activity» model of man in the context of the dispute between «Nestyazhateli» and «Iosiflyane». The authors conclude that Russian state policy has been mostly «Iosiflyanian», and the philosophy became a haven for «Nestyazhatel». In conclusion, the authors highlight such a key concept of Orthodox thought as «sobornost», thus noting that in Russian religious thought, human life finds its true meaning only in the human community

Low-frequency laboratory measurements of the elastic properties of solids using a distributed acoustic sensing system

In recent decades, low-frequency (LF) experiments based on the forced-oscillation (FO) method have become common practice in many rock physics laboratories for measuring the elastic and anelastic properties of rocks. However, the use of the electronic displacement sensors in traditional acquisition systems of FO devices such as conventional capacitive transducers or strain gauges seriously limits both the efficiency and productivity of LF measurements, and, due to the limited contact area of the displacement sensors with a sample under test, increases the requirements for sample homogeneity. In this paper, we present the first results obtained in the development of a new laboratory method elaborated to measure the elastic properties of solids. The method is a further development of the FO method where traditional data acquisition is replaced by acquisition based on fiber-optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technology. The new method was tested in a laboratory study using two FO setups designed for measurements under uniaxial and confining pressures. The study was carried out on a sample made from polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) and an aluminium standard, first under uniaxial pressure at FO frequencies of 1, 10, 30, 60 and 100 Hz, and then under confining pressure at an FO frequency of 1 Hz. Both uniaxial and confining pressures were equal to 10 MPa, and the strain in the PMMA sample in all measurements did not exceed 4 × 10-8. The performance of DAS acquisition was compared with the measurements conducted at a strain of 1 × 10-6 using the traditional FO method based on the use of semiconductor strain gauges and the ultrasonic method. The results of the DAS measurements are in good agreement with the FO measurements carried out using semiconductor strain gauges and with the literature data

Nanomechanical humidity detection through porous alumina cantilevers

Abstract We present here the behavior of the resonance frequency of porous anodic alumina cantilever arrays during water vapor adsorption and emphasize their possible use in the micromechanical sensing of humidity levels at least in the range of 10-22%. The sensitivity of porous anodic aluminium oxide cantilevers (Δf/Δm) and the humidity sensitivity equal about 56 Hz/pg and about 100 Hz/%, respectively. The approach presented here for the design of anodic alumina cantilever arrays by the combination of anodic oxidation and photolithography enables easy control over porosity, surface area, geometric and mechanical characteristics of the cantilever arrays for micromechanical sensing. 133