Humanities & Social Sciences 6 (2015 8) 1228-1241 ~ ~ ~ УДК 130.3 Global Peace and the Problem of Perfection as a Problem of Universal Connection Alexander V. Malinin* Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 04.02.2015, received in revised form 27.03.2015, accepted 06.04.2015 The paper is devoted to perfection as an important social and philosophical issue. <...> Perfection, in the author’s opinion, is manifested in the effort to comprehend the essence of the universal connection, which in the modern world stems from the ambiguity of the current globalization trends. <...> Problems of research of universal connection of phenomena is determined in many respects by the crisis of modern science, as it is arises out of a variety of methodological approaches, which eventually form fundamentally different pictures of reality. <...> In classical philosophy, there used to be a clear distinction between simple systems, that have been studied in physics or chemistry, and complex systems (scopes of biology and the humanities). <...> The integrity of modern European culture is preserved thanks to the predominant focus on science and belief that it is able to provide a person with a vital practical orientation in the world. <...> The established tradition of unquestioning reliance on Cartesian methodological framework has led to the gradual lost of the universal connection of phenomena; and the world is no longer perceived as coherent and unifi ed, rather it appears as discrete and fragmented. <...> Increasingly, the crisis condition of being comes forward. <...> This condition fully reveals itself in the very problem of understanding the universal connections. <...> The universal connection of phenomena was present, in particular, in the second half of the 20th century, when there was a great increase of interest in myth as an attempt to explain the universal connections of phenomena by our ancestors. <...> For most contemporary scholars it becomes apparent that thinking which does not regard the primordial time and being becomes defective and environmentally unfriendly, whereas the lack of artistic worldview, formed largely by cosmogonic myths, threatens to impoverish the culture. <...> The author emphasizes that therefore “a backbone” of research programs remains unaffected, although their targets anyway refl ect the inherently social task, which is to contribute to the understanding and practical regulating the relations in the system “man-societynature”. © Siberian Federal University <...>