Philosophy as the History of Philosophy. Study Guide

Traditionally, training manuals on the history of philosophy are the empirical chronological reviews of the creativity of the most well-known, outstanding philosophers. This method of filing a historical and philosophical material, satisfactory with its initial development, as a rule, does not allow to comprehend the creative nature of historical and philosophical knowledge. The author of this manual, using a significant actual and theoretical material, with comprehension and the presentation relied on the object-object paradigm. The vector of identification of the unity of the historical and philosophical process from the time of the occurrence of ideological search was determined. Hence the name of the book - "Philosophy as a story of philosophy". It presents all Western and Middle Eastern philosophy since the time of ancient civilizations until the second half of the XIX century. The author seeks to reveal the unity of philosophical doctrines and concepts in their rollback through the century and the Millennium. The maximum clarity of the stylistics and the consistent nature of the presentation make it accessible to everyone who is in-depth studying philosophy (especially undergraduates, graduate students, teachers)