One of the crucial problems of philosophy (primarily political) is the problem of language and the conceptual system within which the study is built. The need for constant reflection of all key concepts, understanding of their correlation (or, conversely, incompatibility) both with each other and with their counterparts in other cultural and linguistic systems causes increased attention to the vocabulary selected for each specific statement. This problem has been most acute in recent decades for Russian political philosophy, which is determined, on the one hand, by the need to respond quickly to the challenges of the modern world, and on the other, by the rigidity of its conceptual system and the weak degree of adaptation of its language to actual needs. This explains the necessity to create a rubric, which treats with the philosophical vocabulary.

Under the heading “Philosophical Dictionary”, it is planned to publish peer-reviewed articles, ranging from 3 to 12 thousand words, each of which should be devoted to clarifying one or another concept from the philosophical lexicon (for example: “Order”, “State”, “People”, “Authority”, etc.). Articles in a rubric must meet several criteria: they must be author's and original (translations and/or reprints of articles already written once within this rubric are not considered); the articles should, as clearly as possible, spell out the methodology of the author, it should be clarified in the framework of which methodological paradigm he reveals the concept he has chosen.