Current Projects:

1. Vedas
2. Kshemendra
3. Kshemaraja
4. “Ramayana”
5. Chronocosmos
6. Hermeneutics
7. Global Ethics

Other Web Sites:

List of the Web Sites

Information about myself:

Biography
My teacher

mihailov@bsf.minsk.by

(Sorry, these four pages are under construction, see Russian variants)

Reviews by
Prof. A. A. Mikhailov
Ass. Prof. S. I. Varyukhin

General Principles

Our aim is to protract the work begun by Swami Vivekananda in India and late Leo Tolstoy in Russia and to renew the global or universal ethics and principles of true spiritual life.

"University" should become a voicer of eternal fundamental spiritual truths, wise instructor of youth entering life, kind adviser for all seekers.

Our main postulate is reflection of spiritual insights of the best both ancient and new thinkers, beginning from Vedic, Buddhist, Confucionist, Christian wise men of all epochs and peoples, and up to the contemporary writers, scientists and philosophers.

The basis of ethical education is orientation to harmonic, comprehensive, universal or encyclopaedic information about all attitudes of a person to oneself and the world, information about both theory and practice (technique of spiritual work or self-improvement).

Other important principles are cosmism, worship of the NIGHT, Star-shaped Sky as highest reality, alive embodiment of the divine great, immense, all-powerful, eternal Space-Time, which amazed all ancient prophets, saints and scientists down to I. Kant and K. Tsiolkovsky.

We conceive ethical education as

continuous, not stopping for an instant during all life both of a separate person and society as a whole;

humanistic, i. e. based on such attitude, which regards every person as a highest being in the Universe, having in mind all people, regardless faith, nationality, age and sex, more precisely, taking into account all these features;

synergetic, i. e. promoting independent spiritual development and self-perfecting;

global, or enveloping all themes and directions of ethics, important for the life of all people in all times and in all countries;

logically differentiated, or taking into account age, psychology, state of life, profession, sex, physiology and mental-spiritual features;

active, or inducing to further self-perfecting and self-education;

actual, i. e. aimed at ethical initiatives, application of ethics in all orbs of human activity, exchange of kind news in the field of ethical formation and education.

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Program of uninterrupted education

Theoretical issues:
Introduction to Ethics; Metaethics, Methodology of Ethical Researches; Structure of Ethics;
Connections of Ethics with other Philosophical Disciplines (Aesthetics and Etiquette, Psychology and Logic, Sociology and Right, Textual Criticism and Hermeneutics, History and Politics).

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History of Ethics in the Middle Ages: Great Commentators of Vedanta, Shaiva-siddhanta, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam,

Medieval and Modern Philosophy;

and others.

Integral view of Life and its influence on Modernity and Future.

Special Ethical Disciplines and Techniques of self-perfecting;
Practical disciplines: Etiquette, Etiquette in Internet;
Stylistics and Rhetoric.

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Distribution of the Material:

Vedas are considered by us as major sacred scriptures of the Indoeuropeans, first of all of Indian Brahmans, ancient Iranians and Slavs. By virtue of their antiquity, depth, scientific and artistic perfection, they are to take a central place in a system of global ethical education and to serve as a foundation and all-embracing frame for numerous parables, morals, teachings and comments.

The books by Leo Tolstoy "Circle of Reading", "For Every Day" and " Path of Life" are sources second in significance.

Progressively, we shall introduce other material, taking into account its significance for global ethics, as we understand it.

The educational material is distributed per four main pages consecrated to four sides of life:

Establishment or foundations of social ethics;
Wealth or " regard" for external wealth and riches;
Love or romantic, family and mystic passions;
Salvation [of the soul].

However, the immensity of spiritual-moral treasury is to be presented in small "chunks", which will be in one week or month placed in archive and are substituted by others.

The material is supposed to be updated weekly in the correspondence with the natural astronomical phenomena and calendar constants: ideally strictly with lunar quarters, months, seasons of the year, half-years (solstices), years, cycles of years.

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