PHILOSOPHY AS AN ART OF DYING AND THE SCIENCE OF LIFE: REMEMBERING S. Z. GONCHAROV

Abstract

The aim of the publication is the analysis of creative heritage of the prominent Ekaterinburg philosopher, Doctor of Philosophy, professor, over many years head of the Department of Philosophy, Culturology and Art Criticism of the Russian State Vocational Pedagogical University – Sergey Zakharovich Goncharov (1/25/1946 – 2/12/2016). Method of the analytical research stated in the publication is hermeneutical. Results and scientific novelty. The review of the fundamental ideas of S. Z. Goncharov is presented; the first attempt to estimate the scientist’s contribution to contemporary Russian philosophy is made. The most significant biographic and personal factors which have affected a career and evolution of outlook of S. Z. Goncharov are highlighted. The qualification of Goncharov’s philosophical concept as the modern version of Platonism which has incorporated two traditional lines (extremely important for Russia) of development of a philosophical thought is offered: firstly, from Plato through Hegel to Marx and E. Ilyenkov, and, secondly, from Plato through Hegel to I. Ilyin and orthodox patristic heritage. S. Z. Goncharov’s positions of situation, major for understanding, from his scientific publications are given. The nonreducing of outlook of S. Z. Goncharov to his articulated component is emphasized. The openness, tendency to communication with the original, looking for interlocutors, careful attitude to otherness of opponents, a presumption of subjectivity of any person as to an existential dominant in S. Z. Goncharov’s mental outlook are noted. Fruitfulness of works updating by S. Z. Goncharov is noted. The works by S. Z. Goncharov have already received wide ecognition not only in Russia and the countries entering the USSR, but also in China, Japan, etc. Practical significance. The author hopes for further mutual cooperation of a wide range of researchers for deeper judgment of philosophical creativity of S. Z. Goncharov, his contemporaries and their predecessors – for establishment of correlation of persons and eras that S. Z. Goncharov called «joint making» and considered it as the most organic for a person – a truly creative state of being.