Topic 7. "Science and philosophical problems of the development of modern global civilization" Modern global civilization and its specifics, influence the development of the world order. Teachings
about the civilization of A. Morgan, F. Engels, M. Barga, M. Veber, R. Taylor. A civilizational approach
to the study of the historical and social process. The main directions of the civilizational approach: linear-
stadium, civilizational paradigm and the theory of local civilizations. The teachings of O. Toffler, S.
Huntington. Theory of the post-industrial society of D. Bell. The concept of information civilization by G.
McLuhan.
Socio-economic characteristics of the civilizational dichotomy: west and east. Kazakhstan's way in a
civilizational context. The formation of Kazakhstan's civilizational identity. Kazakhstan and the global
problems of our time.
Discipline "History of Philosophy" (modern philosophy) Topic 1. "Philosophy of the New Time" The formation of the capitalist mode of production, the decline in the authority of the church and
the rapid growth of science. The emergence of a progressive class of the bourgeoisie interested in the
development of natural science studies. The search for methods of knowledge: empiricism and
rationalism, materialism and idealism. A new, mechanistic picture of the world. Dominance in the
philosophy of the principle of "subjective-object relations." Francis Bacon was the founder of the
empirical experience of cognition. Knowledge is power. The doctrine of idols. The inductive method of
cognition. Rationalism of Rene Descartes. The rules of thinking in obtaining reliable knowledge.
Substance problem. Rational deduction and Descartes dualism. Socio-political views of Thomas Hobbes.
Social contract theory. John Locke: the natural state of society as a state of freedom and equality. Locke's
doctrine of the separation of the three branches of power is the foundation of a future democratic state.
Benedict Spinoza's pantheism in solving the substance problem. Spinoza's ethics: freedom is a learned
necessity. Monadology of Gottfried Leibniz. George Berkeley's subjective idealism. The solipsism of
David Hume. The Crisis of English Empiricism
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