Keyword: «philosophy»

The paper is devoted to one of the actual forms of education in modern technical гniversity – essay: the peculiarities of the essay as a qualifying written work on University course «Philosophy» are described in the paper by referring to the history of the essay as a genre (Michel de Montaigne, «Experience»). Awareness of specific genre features of essay allows students to perform this type of work better, replacing it by neither composition, nor the abstract of the study. Special attention is paid to the problems of «theming» and «purity of form» of an essay.

The debate on the anthropic principle is one of the basic propositions of modern cosmology – accumulating philosophical and ideological ideas on the issue of "person-world" and therefore give rise to an extremely wide range of products, in an article comprehended in the following manner. Summoned in the second half of the twentieth century. This principle a major stir in part because the entry of the anthropic principle in modern science has changed the scientific picture of the world, and especially those ideas that were the basis of “the fear of Pascal”.

The article highlights the issues related to spiritual perfection and physical culture as a single concept. According to modern ideas, the main components of life quality are objective indicators of health condition and subjective assessment of one's personal physiological, material and spiritual needs satisfaction degree. Sport, being an element of personality upbringing and development, is closely connected with the health improvement, with the development of basic motor skills, with strengthening, with cultivating of sporting spirit, with increased efficiency, and also with creative and personal longevity.

In his article, the author made an attempt to highlight the deterministic possibility of philosophical ideas. In particular, there is an appeal to the sphere of politics and law. Political and legal ideas of thinkers from Antiquity to the Renaissance were chosen for the study. The philosophers, chosen to contemplate their ideological contribution to politics and law, were truly not only people of their time but also determined the intellectual heritage of future epochs. The author analyzes and reveals determinative possibilities of philosophical ideas in the field of politics and law. In conclusion, the author sets the direction of future research in those eras of philosophical thought, which are the richest in their politico-legal heritage.

This article presents the potential possibilities of philosophy, represented through the objective predisposition of this science representatives to searching, systematization and substantiation of ideas, views and dogmas that have exceptional significance for all humankind in general and for science in particular. In addition, special attention is paid to the problem of the relationship between religion and science through the prism of their constituent elements - religious faith and scientific knowledge, which are the objective and descriptive elements of each of the categories presented. The author analyzes the concepts of "religious faith" and "scientific knowledge", as well as the similarities and differences between religion and science.