Introduction to the science of philosophy. In 7 books. Book 1. The subject of philosophy, its basic concepts and a place in the human system

Based on the Marxist methodology and huge actual material, the famous Russian scientist Yu. I. Semenov offers his own whole and logically harmonious interpretation of philosophy as a universal system of human knowledge, taken in the unity of abstract thinking and empirical experience. The totality of parts of this fundamental labor is essentially a genuine encyclopedia of humanitarian and natural -scientific thought, the distinctive features of which are pronounced conceptualism and all -leature.


The first book positions philosophy as a science of truth, as a theory of knowledge and a universal method, as a universal methodology for cognition. The author reveals the main question of philosophy, its main directions (materialism and idealism), their relationship with religious consciousness.


The book will be interesting to researchers, teachers, students and all those interested in the history and theory of philosophy