The History of Philosophy and the Present Time: On the Transformation of the Status of Philosophy

Abstract

In modern space of humanitarian knowledge the functions which were traditionally belonging to a figure of the thinker-philosopher passed to the historian of philosophy whom our consciousness habitually put in the second row. The author offers a number of estimates of an existing situation and plans possibilities of its change. Thus the author reconsiders a figure of the philosopher according to those transformations to which it is exposed at the present stage of development of philosophy. The main models of historico-philosophical research are considered and the thesis about funding character of history of philosophy locates.