A Brief Introduction to Philosophy

This book is simultaneously a tutorial, and a short guidebook, where the reader himself chooses a strategy reading: either move after the authors, or choose its way to read and master the philosophical knowledge, while flowing into the manual, and something is in-depth studying . The manual is designed for, on the one hand, the philosophical knowledge is intently and systematically present, and on the other - to do it in the maximum compressed, lapidalka, so that the reader has a "picture of philosophy, a preliminary answer to the question was obtained What is it"? Therefore, such topics as the structure of philosophical knowledge, the organization of the philosophical method, axiological knowledge, the structure of values, as well as antique philosophy as the basis of classical education, make up the core of the educational material of the book. Other topics, such as ontology, the theory of knowledge, the concept of consciousness is covered briefly, the authors