History of Philosophy: West - Russia - East. First Book Philosophy of Antiquity and the Middle Ages

The textbook is devoted to a comprehensive presentation of the most significant achievements of Western, Eastern, Russian philosophy from antiquity to the present days in their specifics and unity.
The philosophy of various regions and eras is considered as the most important integral part of civilized development, spiritual life, culture of mankind. The unity of the history of philosophy, as the process of the development of the spirit, with the history of civilization, as the process of development of society and culture is emphasized. Western and Eastern civilization are these special holistic historical forms that united the methods of practical livelihoods, the norms and principles of the Spirit, - already in remote times, when they completely or almost did not interact with each other, gave rise to the treasures of culture and as part of them and part Forms of philosophizing. The textbook demonstrates the inconsistent antinomy of the historical and philosophical process - a tense contradiction between the unique originality of the products of this process, its specific historical, regional, national, individual forms and its steady transformation into a successive process of interaction between various traditions, together representing the unity of world philosophy. It was such a task that the authors of this textbook were set.
The first book is devoted to genesis and further development primarily two of the main forms of the initial, the most ancient forms of philosophizing, Western and East known today.
The book was prepared by a group of well-known specialists in the field of the history of the philosophy of the West, East, Russia