Technicization of human and society, active development of technogenic civilization leads to gradual separation from moral values and principles. These values include ideas of unity and harmony of human with nature, with the surrounding environment, and reasonable, moderate attitude towards natural resources. We believe that humanity should move from the industrial to ecological civilization. The foundations of a new ecophilosophy should become holistic principles, representations of philosophy in general and Buddhism in particular. We outlined basic principles and methods for improving personality of altruistic ethics of Mahayana Buddhism that contribute to human understanding of inseparability, interconnection with the world. We focus on the central Buddhist concept – the absence of an individual ‘I’ that is understood as necessity of recognizing oneself as a separate empirical individual. That is confirmed by a translation of the text PrajnaParamitaHridaya Sutra from Tibetan language. The paper analyzes three types of spiritual personality that correspond to three stages of the Path to awakening. Each stage is a step towards the formation of subjectless consciousness, that is, awareness of universal dependence and responsibility for their actions. The paper argues that for ecological consciousness it is important to form an understanding that the main reason for human existence in not the technosphere, not the economy, but the living nature.
The paper discusses main aspects of the modern relations between the state and religion in the Russian society. It argues that the term 'state-religious relations' most fully reflects the essence of these interactions. The relevance of this topic is confirmed by social transformations that led to changes in all spheres, including a religious one. The authors are especially concerned with a tendency of clericalism that manifests itself in the society. The paper discusses main models of state-religious relations. On the basis of that it has been concluded that a cooperative model of state-religious relations functions in Russia, but with its own characteristics. The paper describes the nature of the relationship between the state and religion, using an example of the educational sphere that most clearly represents these links. In addition, the authors indicated factors of convergence of the state and religion providing positive and negative sides of that process. The conclusion is that, nowadays, new state-religious relations are developing in Russia, since the last models have been exhausted
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