Lecture Plan
1. The Birth of Philosophical Thought
2. The Subject Matter of Philosophy
3. The Evolution of Philosophical Inquiry
4. The Nature and Structure of Worldview
5. Philosophy within the System of Culture
6. The Structure of Philosophical Knowledge
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1. Ancient Indian Philosophy
1.1. Metaphysical Origins: From Ritual Ecstasy to the Realisation of Cosmic Order
1.2. Orthodoxy (Astika): The Path of the Vedas
1.3. Heterodoxy (Nastika): Radical Protest
2. Ancient Chinese Philosophy
2.1. The Cosmos as a Living Organism and the Quest for Social Harmony
2.2. Confucianism: Ethics as the Architecture of the Soul and the State
2.3. Daoism: The Path of Nature
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1. The Genesis of Reason: From Myth to Logos
2. The Anthropological Turn: The Sophists and Socrates
3. Plato’s Objective Idealism: The World of Ideas
4. Aristotle: The Great Systematizer and Critic of Plato
5. Hellenistic Schools: Philosophy as a Way of Life
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1. Philosophy as the "Handmaid of Theology"
2. Patristics: The Formation of Dogma (Augustine of Hippo)
3. Scholasticism: The Flourishing of University Science (Thomas Aquinas)
4. The Renaissance: The Return to Man
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1. Prerequisites of Early Modern Philosophy
2. Empiricism: The Path of Experience (Francis Bacon)
3. Rationalism: The Path of Reason (René Descartes)
4. Development of Rationalist Systems: Spinoza and Leibniz
5. The Empiricism of T. Hobbes and J. Locke
6. Philosophical Ideas of the Enlightenment: The "Kingdom of Reason"
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1. General Characteristics and Prerequisites: From «Cognizing Reason» to «Creative Reason»
2. Immanuel Kant: The «Copernican Revolution» in Philosophy.
3. Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Schelling: The Path to Absolute Idealism.
4. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Universal Dialectics and the Self-Development of the World Spirit.
5. Ludwig Feuerbach: Anthropological Materialism and the Decline of the Classical Era.
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1. The Crisis of Classical Rationalism and the Characteristics of Post-Classicism [pəʊst ˈklæsɪsɪzəm]
2. Arthur Schopenhauer’s Philosophy of Will [ˈɑːθə ˈʃəʊpənhaʊə]
3. Søren Kierkegaard [ˈsɒrən ˈkɪəkəɡɑːd]: The Birth of Existentialism [ˌeɡzɪˈstenʃəlɪzəm]
4. Friedrich Nietzsche [ˈfriːdrɪx ˈniːtʃə]: The Philosophy of Life and the Revaluation of All Values
5. Positivism [ˈpɒzətɪvɪzəm]: Science Instead of Metaphysics
6. Marxism: The Materialist Conception of History
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1. Phenomenology and Existentialism: The Quest for Authenticity
2. Psychoanalysis: The Philosophy of the Unconscious
3. Analytic Philosophy and the Linguistic Turn
4. Hermeneutics and Post-structuralism: Power and Interpretation
5. Postmodernism: The Decline of the «Grand Narratives»
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1. The Distinctive Features of Russian Philosophical Thought
2. The Historiosophical Dispute: Slavophiles and Westernizers
3. The Philosophy of Total-Unity by Vladimir Solovyov
4. Philosophical Anthropologism of F. M. Dostoevsky and L. N. Tolstoy
5. Russian Cosmism: Man on a Cosmic Scale
6. Philosophy of the «Silver Age» and the Russian Diaspora
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1. The Subject of Ontology and the Category of Being
2. Monistic and Dualistic Models of Reality
3. Space and Time as Attributes of Being
4. Virtual Reality as a New Ontological Form
5. Determinism and Systemicity of Being
6. The Modern Scientific Picture of the World
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1. The Essence and Structure of the Cognitive Process
2. Sensory and Rational Cognition: Levels and Forms
3. The Great Debate in Modern Philosophy: Empiricism vs. Rationalism
4. The Problem of Truth and Its Criteria
5. Scientific Knowledge: Levels, Methods, and Structure
6. Cognition in the Digital Age: Epistemological Challenges of the 21st Century
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1. Society as an Object of Philosophical Analysis
2. Social Structure and Stratification
3. Driving Forces and Subjects of the Historical Process
4. The Direction of History: Progress or Cyclicity?
5. Society and the Individual
6. Global Problems and the Future of Humanity