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ISSN 1829-3824 (), 1, 2016 EDITORIAL BOARD Honorary Chief of Ruben MIRZAKHANYAN - chancellor of the Armenian State Pedagogical University after Khachatur the Editorial Board Abovyan, honorary member of Armenian Philosophical Academy, doctor of sciences (in history), profes- sor Editor-in-Chief Hasmik HOVHANNISYAN - doctor of sciences (in philosophy), full member of the Armenian Philosophical Academy, chairperson of the Philosophy and Logic Department at Armenian State Pedagogical University after Khachatur Abovyan, scientific general secretary of International Academy for Philosophy Phone: +374 10 597 065 E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] Associate Editor Hovhannes HOVHANNISYAN - PhD in philosophy, associate professor of the Philosophy and Logic De- partment at Armenian State Pedagogical University after Khachatur Abovyan and YSU, scientific general secretary of the Armenian Philosophical Academy, head of the Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences at French University of Armenia, chairman of the Committee of Civil Society Development of Public Council of RA Advisory Editors Eduard DANIELYAN - head of the Ancient History Department at the Institute of History and Archeology of NAS RA, doctor of sciences (in history), professor Srbuhi GEVORGYAN - vice chancellor education quality and distant learning of the Armenian State Peda- gogical University after Khachatur Abovyan, full member of Armenian Philosophical Academy, doctor of sciences (in psychology), professor Hasmik HOVHANNISYAN - professor of philosophy at Armenian State Pedagogical University after Khachatur Abovyan Peter KEMP - professor of the Department of Education at the University of Aarhus (Denmark), head of the Centre of Ethics and Law, member of the International Academy for Philosophy Hans KÖCHLER - professor (em.) of Philosophy, University of Innsbruck (Austria), president of the Inter- national Progress Organization, co-president of the International Academy for Philosophy Armen T. MARSOOBIAN - professor and the chairperson of the Philosophy Department at Southern Con- necticut State University, New Haven (USA), editor-in-chief of the journal Metaphilosophy Karen MOMJYAN - head of the Chair of Social Philosophy at the Moscow State University, doctor of sci- ences (philosophy), professor Yevangelos MOUTSOPOULOS - honorary rector of the University of Athens, doctor of sciences (in philos- ophy), academician Kadzhik OHANYAN - professor of the Chair of Sociology at the Saint Petersburg State University of Eco- nomics, foreign member of the Armenian Philosophical Academy, doctor of sciences (in philosophy) Barry STROUD - Willis S. and Marion Slusser professor of philosophy, University of California (USA), Berkeley, co-president of the International Academy for Philosophy Vyacheslav STYOPIN - Doctor of philosophy, professor, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Honorary director of the Institute of philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences Arkadiy URSUL - director of the Center of Global Studies, professor of the Faculty of Global Processes at the Russian State University after Mikhail Lomonosov, founder and honorary president of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics after Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, academician of the Academy of Sciences of Mol- dova, president of the International Academy of Noosphere - MANUR, member of the International Academy for Philosophy, head of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Management Branch Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, doctor of sci- ences (in philosophy) Igor ZASLAVSKI - corresponding member of NAS RA, full member of Armenian Philosophical Academy, doctor of sciences (in physics and mathematics) Managing Editor Ashot GEVORGYAN - associate professor of the Philosophy and Logic Department at Armenian State Pedagogical University after Khachatur Abovyan, PhD in philosophy Book Review Editor Robert DJIDJIAN - professor of the Philosophy and Logic Department at Armenian State Pedagogical Uni- versity after Khachatur Abovyan, academician of International Academy for Philosophy, doctor of scienc- es (in philosophy) Literary Editors John MASON - professor of Hollins University (USA) Tigran MIKAELYAN - PhD in philology, dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Armenian State Peda- gogical University after Khachatur Abovyan Marie-Luisa FRICK - professor of the Department of Philosophy of Innsbruck University, doctor of scienc- es (in philosophy) Editorial Assistant Satenik KUZANYAN - PhD student of the Philosophy and Logic Department at Armenian State Pedagogi- cal University after Khachatur Abovyan, specialist of the same department S C I E N T I F I C J O U R N A L Published by the Decision of the Scientific Board of Armenian State Pedagogical University after Khachatur Abovyan DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY AND LOGIC W I S D O M 1, 2 0 1 6 YEREVAN – 2016 WISDOM CONTENT EDITORS’ FOREWORD 4 EPISTEMOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, METAPHILOSOPHY, ARGUMENTATION Ana BAZAC 6 The Concept of Social Progress: an Epistemological Moment Robert DJIDJIAN 16 Transformational Logic and Social Transformation Ashot GALSTYAN Epistemological-Motivational Bases of Literary Non-Fiction Genre as Factors Determining the Lin- 21 guistic Structure of Text Ashot GEVORGYAN 29 Advanced Scientometric Databases as an Objective Criterion of Scientific Activities Ernest GRIGORIAN 33 Science and Religion Haig KHATCHADOURIAN 46 The New Design Argument and God Hans KÖCHLER 67 Culture and World Order SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY, SOCIOLOGY Sergey DAVYDOV 72 The Chief and his Sacral Power Hovhannes HOVHANNISYAN, Hasmik HOVHANNISYAN, Astghik PETROSYAN Peculiarities of the Perception of the Phenomenon of the Armenian Genocide on Public Opinion 79 (Comparative Analysis of Sociological Survey Results) Karina OGANYAN Ideological Intersections of Personality’s Analysis in Armenian and Russian Social-Philosophical 87 Thought Will POGHOSYAN 94 The Shy Stalinism Torsten J. SELCK, Lilit BAGHDASARYAN 101 Fractionalization of Unrecognized States in Europe CHAIR OF YOUNG SCIENTIST Bagrat BAGRATYAN The Principle of Separation of Powers in Political Science 108 2 1(6), 2016 2 WISDOM Mane KHACHIBABYAN 118 Modernism and Feminism Representations of Women in Modernist Art and Literature Lilit MELIKYAN 125 Philosophical Foundations of Second Language Acquisition Nelli PETROSYAN 131 Saint Gregory the Illuminator and Canons of Nicene Ecumenical Council IN MEMORIAM Haig KHATCHADOURIAN 136 INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS 139 THE AUTHORS 142 3 3 1(6), 2016 EDITORS' FOREWORD EDITORS’ FOREWORD EDITORS’ FOREWORD Armenian State Pedagogical University after papers of young researchers to the wide scientific Armenian State Pedagogical University after papers of young researchers to the wide scientific Khachatur Abovyan and the Editorial Board of the community. 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    Creation ex nihilo: Theology and Science William Lane Craig SUMMARY The biblical doctrine of temporal creation ex nihilo has received strong scientific confirmation from post-relativistic physics. Two lines of evidence point to an absolute beginning of the universe: the expansion of the universe and the thermodynamics of the universe. In each case attempts to maintain a past-eternal universe have become increasingly difficult to defend. Given the beginning of the universe, the question arises as to how the universe could have come into being. Attempts by some physicists to maintain that physics can explain the origin of the universe from nothing either trade on an equivocal use of the term “nothing” or else are guilty of philosophical faux pas. Supernatural creation ex nihilo is the better explanation. CREATION EX NIHILO: THEOLOGY AND SCIENCE Introduction “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Gen. 1.1). With majestic simplicity the author of the opening chapter of Genesis thus differentiated his viewpoint, not only from the ancient creation myths of Israel’s neighbors, but also effectively from pantheism, such as is found in religions like Vedanta Hinduism and Taoism, from panentheism, whether of classical neo- Platonist vintage or twentieth-century process theology, and from polytheism, ranging from ancient paganism to contemporary Mormonism. The biblical writers give us to understand that the universe had a temporal origin and thus imply creatio ex nihilo in the temporal sense that God brought the universe into being without a material cause at some point in the finite past. [1] Moreover, the Church Fathers, though heavily influenced by Greek thought, dug in their heels concerning the doctrine of creation, sturdily insisting on the temporal creation of the universe ex nihilo in opposition to the prevailing Hellenistic doctrine of the eternity of matter.
  • Tbilisi As a Center of Crosscultural Interactions (The 19Th– Early 20Thcenturies)

    Tbilisi As a Center of Crosscultural Interactions (The 19Th– Early 20Thcenturies)

    Khazar Journal Of Humanities and Social Sciences Special Issue, 2018 ©Khazar University Press, 2018 DOI: 10.5782/kjhss.2018.233.252 Tbilisi as a Center of Crosscultural Interactions (The 19th– early 20thCenturies) Nino Chikovani Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia The city of Tbilisi – the capital of Georgia, during its long period of existence, has been an interesting place of meeting and interaction of different cultures. In this context, the present paper deals with one of the most interesting periods in the history of the city. From the beginning of the 19th century, when the establishment of the Russian imperial rule started in the Caucasus, Tbilisi became an official political center of the region; political and economic changes, occurring during the second half of the 19th century, significantly influenced ethnic and religious composition of Tbilisi, its cultural lifetime and mode of life in general. For centuries-long period, Tbilisi, like other big cities (how much big does not matter in this case), was not only the Georgian city in ethnic terms; but also, it represented a blend of different religious and ethnic groups. Not only in a distant past, but just a couple of decades ago, when the phenomenon of the so called ‘city yards’ (which are often called as ‘Italian yards’ and which have almost disappeared from the city landscape) still existed in Tbilisi, their residents spoke several languages fluently. Ethnically and religiously mixed families were not rare. Such type of cities, termed as Cosmo-policies by some researchers, has an ability to transform a visitor, at least temporarily, into a member of “in-group”, in our case – into Tbilisian.