The Impact of Decentralization on the Development of Civil Society in the Context of the Philosophy of Reason

Authors

  • Volodymyr Zablotskyi Doctor of Science in State Administration, Professor of the Department of Civil Service and Management of Educational and Social Institutions, State Institution ,,Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University'', Starobilsk, Ukraine,
  • Nadiia Babarykina Candidate of Political Science, Associate Professor of the Department of General Legal and Political Sciences, National University «Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic», Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
  • Tetiana Sych Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Public Service and Management of Educational and Social Institutions, Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, Poltava, Ukraine
  • Olga Ptakhina Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Public Service and Management of Educational and Social Institutions, Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, Poltava, Ukraine
  • Yevhen Ivanov Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Public Service and Management of Educational and Social Institutions, Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, Poltava, Ukraine
  • Nadiia Vasynova Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Public Service and Management of Educational and Social Institutions, Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, Poltava, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18662/brain/14.1/438

Keywords:

neurosociology, mind-body-sense interaction, vertical and horizontal decentralization, correlation of neurocognitive capacity, postmodernity and decentralization, cognitive and behavioral divergence of postmodernity

Abstract

The authors have attempted a philosophical essay to comprehend the phenomenon of statehood, society, decentralization and culture in the context of the philosophy of mind and (partially) the neuroscientific paradigm.

The authors used a number of theoretical methods: from historical analysis and reconstruction of the phenomenon of philosophy of mind and establishing the role of human subjectivity and "selfhood" in sociopolitical processes, to philosophical reflection and essayistic parascientific author interpretations.

The main result is a new view of decentralization in the context of postmodernist consciousness, where the background (postmodern) and sociopolitical result (decentralization) are the synergistic result of human social networks' realization of neurocognitive natural ability to parallel coexistence of personal and social.

As a result, the virtual and material manifestations of the globalized informatized post-industrial society, which has received postmodernist experience, have conditioned total decentralization. At the same time, politically administrative is only a partial manifestation of it, while civil society seeks to diversify its needs and ways of solving them as much as possible.

The international significance of the article lies in its universality: it complementarily analyzes the neuroscientific, cultural-mystetic, philosophical, social, and political dimensions of a civil postmodern society that seeks maximum decentralization of all superstructures and maximum delegation of managerial functions to its members and groups.

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2023-03-09

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Zablotskyi, V., Babarykina, N., Sych, T., Ptakhina, O., Ivanov, Y., & Vasynova, N. (2023). The Impact of Decentralization on the Development of Civil Society in the Context of the Philosophy of Reason. BRAIN. Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, 14(1), 628-646. https://doi.org/10.18662/brain/14.1/438

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