self-knowledge and self-determination

The role of philosophy in life of contemporary society: questions without answers

The article deals with acute issues related to the state of modern philosophy and its place in modern society on background of the common thesis about the death of philosophy or exhaustion of its creative resources. The author elaborates on the theme by analyzing five major spheres of public life in which presence of philosophy is obvious and traditional: it is intellectual culture and erudition of the person, interior individual world of a man, education, science and governmental programs and solutions.