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THE CHRISTIAN CONCEPT OF THE PERSON AS A FUNDAMENTAL COMPONENT OF THE MORAL PROBLEMS OF MODERN BIOETHICS // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2013. Issue 5 (133). P. 63-66

The article is devoted to the personality concept, which was developed in the personalistic discourse Christian culture, as a basis for the analysis of the moral aspect of modern bioethics. The initial background and categorical foundation of the personality concept is considered in the article. The ontological difference between the concepts “personality” and “person” in their anthropological representation is analysed. There were presented preconditions for the holistic person model formation, which defines the moral status of the person when doing ethical analysis of biotechnologies.

Keywords: bioethics, person, individuality, essence, personalism, anthropology, christian culture, the existence of man

THE APOPHATIC METHOD OF PERSONALITY EXPLICATION // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2013. Issue 9 (137). P. 236-240

In this work we have done the analysis of the concept of personality, which was formed in the Christian intellectual tradition, based on the substantial ontology and the apophatic method. In the research personality is presented as a transcendental condition of existence of the anthropological reality, which can not be immediately objectified. This makes it possible to talk about the mystery of personality in the context of general cognitive process and governs the apophatic method. Essential difference between the Eastern and Western apophatic traditions is presented.

Keywords: personality, apophaticism, mistery, substance, anthropology

PERIKHORESIS AND SELFNESS AS ANTHROPOLOGICAL STRATEGY IN CHRISTIAN CULTURAL TRADITION // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2014. Issue 7 (148). P. 65-67

Two antropological strategies (selfness and perichoresis) represented in the Christian culture are comparatively analyzed. It is claimed that these anthropological strategies are conceivable only in the personalistic paradigm, according to which a person a self-identical reality, a “center” capable of “anthropological openness” perceived as constitutive disconnection – forming person's constitution, person's identity structure as an anthropological topos, made with the sum of person's communicative acts.

Keywords: person, human, Christian culture, anthropological strategies, synergy anthropology, anthropological opening