The Role of Philosophy in the System of University Social and Humanitarian Education in Current Socio-Political Conditions

Abstract

The present-day Russian system of university social and humanitarian education was formed against the background of the collapse of the USSR. The ideologized system of Marxist-Leninist disciplines was replaced by a Western-oriented liberal system in which philosophy began to play the role of a translator of Western philosophical ideas and values. For more than thirty years, the liberal Russian state refused to control the activities of the professional philosophical community and the content of philosophical knowledge disseminated in universities. With the beginning of the special military operation, the situation began to change, and the state, through presidential decrees, set before the professional community the task of protecting the traditional spiritual and moral values of Russian society. This task is directly related to the task of decolonizing public consciousness and returning to the grandiose philosophical experience accumulated by Russian culture.