Голоса философов

Abstract

The article examines the generational approach to study of the philosophical traditions’ development. The philosophical generation is a powerful intellectual pattern with its own optics, issues, and methods of research. The author distinguishes six philosophical generations that nowadays live and work in Russia. The specificity of philosophical generation is determined by existential input to philosophy of people that are close to each other in the experience of discipleship and integration into official and unofficial philosophical institutions, the commonality of the intellectual basis. As for philosophical generation, it is not about age of philosophy makers but about the emergence of new problems and a new relation to philosophy, about the promotion or development of new ideas and meanings, about new trends in the discussion of already familiar problems and phenomena, about the new social and cultural role of philosophy, about a new understanding of the world and man, about changing what is called the “philosophical way of life”. The study of philosophical generations is important for recovery of the human context for the development of philosophy. The path of knowledge from the generational type to texts is no less important than the usual path from texts. Reading the history of philosophy as the history of philosophical generations pays attention of researchers to the personal connections within the philosophical community (horizontal and vertical ones), which will clarify both the individual contribution of thinkers and the mutual influences that determine the inception and development of philosophical ideas.