On Principles of Philosophy in Connection With Its Present-Day Ending

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Abstract

[In Russian]

The author addresses historical sources of philosophy in order to reveal social functions which philosophy has initially carried out and those cultural preconditions which made its emergence possible. Different versions of a natural philosophical question «on principles» are reinterpreted by the author as after-images of reflection of social community concerning the grounds of own unity. Political organizational principles of polis – democ- racy, equality, agonism, publicity, dialectics of the private and the public interest – are described in the article in their inseparable connection with the philosophical thought, where ontology and the social thought, ethics appear to be two sides of Mobius band. The reasons of a modern crisis of philosophy are connected with the decline of city communities and dissemination of social con- nectivity as such.