Oizerman Theodor I. Problems of the History of Philosophy

Progress Publishers, 1973. — 465 p.The main aim of this book is to investigate the initial propositions of the history of philosophy. This concerns the basic philosophical question and the main trends and directions in philosophy, themes that are organically connected with one another; special study of them makes it possible to understand philosophy as law-governed developing knowledge whose final result is dialectical and historical materialism. The subject of this work is such inadequately studied (in the general view) and largely debatable problems as the specific nature of the philosophical form of knowledge, the distinguishing feature and ideological function of the problematic of philosophy, and the nature of philosophical argument and dispute.