The Essence of Philosophical Knowledge: from Antiquity to the Present
With the help of philosophy the world is known. There are many philosophical teachings with various cognitive techniques. There are many ways of understanding the world: empirical, religious, scientific and philosophical. Philosophy plays an important role in people’s lives, it is the starting point of knowledge, which depends on the subjective reasons formed from personal experience and objective, independent of it. Philosophy is a rationally grounded, theoretically developed worldview, but there are also irrational directions of philosophy. Many people ask the question where the border between philosophy and other systems of worldview is. If we take into account religion, the boundary between these systems at different times blurred, and the interpenetration of each other gave rise to new questions and teachings. There is no final answer to the questions of philosophy, there are different points of view. Philosophy helps to think about the questions of being or about one’s own position on any issue. It plays an important role for each person, as forms humanistic values. Man, as a deep-thinking matter is increasingly aware of itself as an active factor in the surrounding natural environment.