1. The main question is the question of the essence of space, nature as a holistic single world, the universum. Cosmos appeared as a final living creature, harmonically calculated, hierarchically equipped, lightweight. Cosmos is equipped on the principle of unity and forms such a structure where everything is in everything where each element serves as a representation and the display of the whole and restores this integer in itself in its entirety, where each part is also all, not mixed and inseparable from the whole. Each person, things, the event has its meaning. Cosmos harmony manifests itself at all levels of the hierarchy, so that a person is a microcosm.

2. The problem of being and formation relies on the empirically observed difference in sustainable and variable. That which is always invariably is being, existing, and the fact that changeable is becoming. Genesis is absolutely there, i.e. There are first of all its possible divisions; It is solid, simple and one. It is completely, invariably, has no other being as its beginning, it is necessary, i.e. Could not be that already become identical.

3. Understanding of space and being is based on expediency. If something happens, there must be a reason, its generating is the goal. "Starting," says Aristotle, - that is what it is. And the formation is for the sake of purpose. " If there is a goal, there is a meaning - "For what". What everyone strives is to have, there are benefit for many ancient thinkers as the first and last target cause of things.

4. By setting the unity above the plurality, the ancient philosophers identified unity and integrity. Under the whole understood primarily indivisible. Representatives of the Millet School, these various types originated (water, air, Aperic), Herclite - Fire, atomists have an atom. For Plato and Aristotle, this is Eidosa, forms, ideal existential entities.

5. Antique philosophers were mainly gnoseological optimists, considering possible knowledge of the world. The main means of knowledge they considered the mind. They are characterized by recognition in accordance with the principle of hierarchy and the hierarchically dismanded structure of cognitive abilities, which depend on the parts of the human soul.

6. The human problem is to clarify the essence of a person, its connection with space, its moral predestination, rationality and self-relief.

7. The problem of the soul and body as a kind of problem of the ratio of material and ideal. The soul is understood either as independent of the material and predetermined by supernatural forces, the immortal (Plato), or as a kind of material (fiery atoms of democritus). Universal animation (Gilozoism) is recognized as a democritus and Aristotle.

8. Ethical problems in which a person appears as a creature having lowest passions and desires and at the same time virtuous ones endowed with higher virtues. Within the framework of antiquity, several ethical directions allocate:

- evdomonism - harmony between virtue and desire for happiness (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle),

- hedonism - Virtue is intertwined with pleasure, shock with suffering (democritus, epicuris),

- asceticism - self-limitation, as a means of achieving moral higher qualities (novice, steaks).

9. Ethical problems are closely intertwined with political problems. The personality and citizen are treated as identical, so the problems of the state are ethical problems and vice versa.

10. The problem of genesis, nature and systematization of scientific knowledge, an attempt to allocate sections of philosophical knowledge (Aristotle).

11. Certain classification of sciences based on human cognitive abilities or the degree of importance of the object of study.

12. Development of ways to achieve truth in dispute, i.e. dialectics as a method of thinking (Socrates, Zenon Elayky).

13. Opening and subsequent development of a kind of objective dialectic, stating the fluidity, variability, inconsistency of the material world (Miletskaya School, Herclite).

14. The problem of the beautiful, reflected in art, is recognized either an illusory (a copy of the copy of Plato cannot be excellent), or able to free a person from power from feelings and give a spacious to the reason for the beginning in a person (Catharsis at Aristotle).

One of the central problems of ancient philosophy was the problem of being: why is everything that exist? What happened from? What is the reason being? Why is there is because not nothing? etc. In the ordinary language, the words "be", "exist", "is in cash" are perceived as synonyms. But in philosophy, they have special meanings anything in common with ordinary use. The term "being" turns into the main problem of ontology, that section of philosophy, where we are talking about true, unchanged and unified, guaranteeing the world and man is a sustainable existence. Genesis as a philosophical category means reality extending outside of human experience, and therefore not dependent on a person with his consciousness not from humanity.

Appeal to the issues of being begins with the question of the meaning of life. But for the ancient Greek, his life was still inextricably linked with nature, with space, so philosophy begins with questions where did the world come from and what does it come from? It is these questions that the reflection of Miletsky philosophers are devoted to: Falez, Anaximandra, Anaximman. In addition, Fales already had an idea about the existence of common laws for all things and the world. This idea was expressed for the first time and she was Greek. As Heraclit Efesse said later, wisdom is to catch the basic formula overall for all items. We must follow this as the city follows their laws and even more strictly, since the general formula is universal, even if the laws of various cities are different.

The mite for the first time the idea appears that everything is subject to continuous change. Heraclitus strongly emphasizes staying in shift, constancy in change, identity in change, eternity in transient. Source of movement, changes is the struggle. Everything consists of opposites. They can move in each other (cold heat is cold, cooled hot); One opposite identifies the value of another (for example, the disease makes health sweet). The harmony of the world consists of opposites, between which the struggle takes place.

Greeks own the idea why things with such a totality of change remain the same. This is the principle of order and measures. Preservation of loyal proportions The constant change retains things as they are as for a person and for the world as a whole. The basic idea of \u200b\u200bmeasures came from Pythagora. The idea of \u200b\u200bmeasures, so characteristic of an ancient worldview, is generalized by Hercelite in the concept of Logos. Literally "Logos" - the word. But this is not any word, but only reasonable.

In 5-4 V to AD. Parmenide introduced the problem of Genesis in philosophy to solve one very real life task - the loss of faith in the former gods and at the same time loss of life support. In the depths of the human consciousness, despair originated, it was necessary to search for new guarantors of human existence.

Parmenid suggested replacing the power of the gods by the power of thought. In philosophy, such an idea is called clean, i.e. Such a whole content does not depend on the empirical, sensual experience of people. Parmenid argued the presence of something for the subject and sensual things that the guarantor of the existence of this world can play: God, Logos, an absolute idea. Parmenid opened the power of absolute thought, which will ensure the world of stability and order: everything with the need to obey this thought. Founded in the universe, the course of things can not change suddenly, by the will of the case: the day will always come to replace the night, people will not worry suddenly, it is not known what. Those. To designate this situation, Parmenid used the term "being" taking it from the Greek language and giving it another context. Being in his understanding is what is in the world of sensory things, which is one and invariably, in which the whole full of perfection is concluded, among which the mainstream are truth, good, good.

Later the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, the student of Socrates will demonstrate that reality and being are not homogeneous, which besides the sensual space, there is a reality that is breathtaking, superior to sensual, physical. Already Pythagoras first insisted on the fact that only mental is real. Parmenid agreed with him, denying movement. Plato developed and deepened this idea of \u200b\u200bancient Greek genius.

Plato believed that there are eternal values \u200b\u200bof being - there is justice, the benefit and virtue, incorporated by human disagreements. These primers are completely comprehended by the man's mind.

How does Plato prove its provisions? There is a movable, changing world in which we live. We know it through sensations, ideas, perceptions that do not give us true knowledge. But there is another world - the eternal, irrelevant and non-profitable - the world of pure forms of things, ideas, the essence of things, their reasons. This world is indicated by the concept of being, i.e. It has the value of true being for Plato. You can know the world of ideas not through sensations, but through the concepts. Those. The mind should not rely on deceptive visibility, but on the concepts that are checked by logic. Other concepts are derived from these concepts according to the rules of logic, and as a result we can come to truth.

The truth is that the mindful world of ideas, the world of entities defines our changeable world - the world of sensual things. For example, there is a beautiful horse, a beautiful woman, a beautiful cup, and there is a beauty in itself. Beauty as a reason, sample, the idea of \u200b\u200bbeautiful things. This beauty itself, as well as the virtue of itself in itself, the justice of itself by itself will know the mind with the help of an inductive deuctive path of building concepts. So you can know the essence of being, justify the rules of the state device, understand what is the meaning of our life and what is its main values.

Plato and Aristotle were recorded the problems of the genesis and nature of knowledge, logical and methodological, from the point of view of rational search. What expensive follow to achieve the truth? What is the authentic contribution of feelings, and what goes from the mind? What are logical forms with which a person judges, thinks, argues?

The chosen aristotle method of knowledge can be described as follows: from explicit and obvious to what it becomes obvious through another. The path of this is a logical reasoning. In the field of logic, the subjectivity of human thinking and the person turns out to be able to operate with common, universal concepts. Dependence on sensory perception disappears. In the field of logic, the object seems to think through human thinking. Based on this, it becomes possible to comprehend things as they are.

Thus, we see the idea characteristic of ancient Greek thought about the existence of a transcendental world, the most perfect and most beautiful, harmonious combining benefit, good, truth. This world is identified with a genuine being, which is comprehensible only in thought.

The problem of being set in antiquity predicted the fate of the Western world in the following senses.

First, if being is a thought and comprehended only in thought, then before the European culture, the task of working out the ability of thinking to work in space, where there are no sensual images and views.

Secondly, if there is genuine being, then the earthly being unnecessary, needs to be reorganized and improving. The challenge to defeat the wrongness of earthly existence entered the flesh and blood of the European worldview.

subject:

"Antique philosophy: basic problems, concepts and schools"

Introduction

1 Millet School and School Pythagora. Heraclitis and Eleaata. Atomists

2 schools of Socrates, Sofists and Plato

3 Aristotle

4 Philosophy of early Hellenism (Stoicism, Epicureism, Skepticism)

5 Neo-Platonism

Conclusion

List of used literature

Introduction

Most researchers are unanimous in that philosophy as a holistic phenomenon of culture is the creation of the genius of the ancient Greeks (VII-VI centuries. BC). Already in the poems of Homer and Gesiod, impressive attempts are made to present the world and the person's place in it. The desired goal is achieved mainly by means of art characteristic (artistic images) and religion (faith in the gods).

Philosophy supplemented myths and religions to the strengthening of rational motivations, the development of interest in systematic rational thinking based on concepts. Initially, the formation of philosophy in the Greek world contributed to the political freedoms achieved in the cities-states. Philosophers, the number of which increased, and the activity was becoming more professional, could withstand political and religious authorities. It was in the ancient Greek world that the philosophy was first constituted into an independent cultural education, which existed along with the art and religion, and not as their component.

Antique philosophy developed throughout the XII-XIII centuries, from the VII century. BC. by vi in. AD In historical terms, an antique philosophy can be divided into five periods:

1) the naturalistic period, where the focus was paid to the problems of nature (Fuseshi) and space (milders, Pythagoreans, Eleata, in short, the coastal);

2) the humanistic period with his attention to human problems, primarily to ethical issues (Socrates, Sofists);

3) a classic period with its grandiose philosophical systems of Plato and Aristotle;

4) the period of Hellenistic schools (stoics, epicuricals, skeptics) engaged in the moral arrangement of people;

5) Neoplatonism, with its universal synthesis, brought to the presentation of one-good.

The presented work discusses the basic concepts and schools of antique philosophy.

1 Millet School of Philosophy and School Pythagora. Heraclitis and Eleaata. Atomists.

One of the oldest philosophical schools is Miletsky (VII-V BB. BC). Thinking from the city of Mileta (ancient Greece) - Fales, Anaximen and Anaximandr.

All three thinkers made decisive steps to demi-physical ancient worldview. "What about everything?" - Here is a question that I was interested in mitets first. Itself setting the issue in its own way is genius, for it has its prerequisite conviction that everything can be explained, but for this it is necessary to find a single source for all. Such a source of Fales considered water, Anaximen - air, Anaximandr - some infinite and eternal beginning, Aperon (the term "Aperon" literally means "boundless"). Things arise as a result of those transformations that occur with the prebim, - condenses, declaring, evaporation. According to mitets, the primary substance is based on everything. Substance, by definition, there is something that does not need to explain in any other. Falez Water, Anaximna Air is substances.

To evaluate the views of mitets, turn to science. Milets postulated outside the world of events and phenomena mildets failed to go out, but they did such attempts, and in the right direction. They were looking for something natural, but imagined him as an event.

School Pythagora. Pythagoras is also engaged in the problem of substances, but fire, land, water as such is no longer satisfied. He comes to the conclusion that "everything is there is a number." Pythagoreans saw in the properties and relationships inherent in harmonic combinations. Pasthagoreans past the fact that if the lengths of the strings in the musical instrument (monochord) belong to each other, as 1: 2, 2: 3, 3: 4, then the resulting musical intervals will correspond to what is called octava, quinte and quart . Simple numerical relationships began to search in geometry and astronomy. Pythagoras, and before him, Fales, apparently, used the simplest mathematical evidence, which, quite possible, were borrowed in the East (in Babylonia). The invention of mathematical evidence was crucial for the formation of the type of rationality characteristic of a modern civilized person.

When evaluating the philosophical significance of the views of Pythagora, it should be given due to its insight. From the point of view of philosophy, an appeal to the phenomenon of numbers was of particular importance. The Pythagoreans explained the events based on the numbers and their ratios and thereby surpassed mitets, because they almost reached the level of laws of science. Any absolutization of numbers, as well as their patterns, is the revival of the historical limitations of Pythagoreania. It fully belongs to the magic of the numbers, which, I must say, the Pythagoreans gave tribute to the whole generosity of the enthusiastic soul.

Finally, it should be especially searched by the search by Pythagoreans of Harmony in all, beautiful quantitative consistency. Such a search is actually aimed at discovering laws, and this is one of the most complex scientific tasks. The ancient Greeks loved the harmony very much, admired her and knew how to create it in their lives.

Heraclitis and Eleaata. Further development of philosophical thought is most convincingly represented in the known confrontation of the teachings of Hercelit from Ephesus and Parmenide and Zenona from Ela.

Both parties agrees that the external feelings are not able to give true knowledge themselves, the truth is achieved by reflection. Heraclit believes that the world is ruled by Logos. The idea of \u200b\u200bthe Logos can be regarded as a naive understanding of patterns. Specifically, he meant that everything in the world consists of opposites opposing, everything happens through a straightening, fighting. As a result, everything changes, flows; Figuratively speaking, it is impossible to enter the same river twice. In the fight opposites, their internal identity is found. For example, "the life of some of the death of others", and indeed - life is death. Since everything is interconnected, then any property relative to: "Tslas Solom would prefer gold." Heraclit still overly trust the world of events, which determines both weak and strengths of his views. On the one hand, it is noticed, albeit in naive form, the most important properties of the world of events - their interaction, connectedness, relativity. On the other hand, he still does not know how to analyze the world of events from the standpoint characteristic of the scientist, i.e. With evidence, concepts. The world for Heraclita has fire, and the fire is an image of eternal movement and change.

The heraklitov philosophy of the identity of the opposites, the contradictions sharply criticized by Eleats. So, Parmenid considered those people who "to be" and "not to be" is considered the same and the same and the same thing is also there (this is a clear hint of Hercelite), "two-headed".

Eleata special attention was paid to the problem of multiplicity, in this regard, they came up with a number of paradoxes (aquaries), which and today cause headaches from philosophers, physicists and mathematicians. Paradox is an unexpected statement, an aporia is a difficulty, bewilderment, a difficult task.

According to Eleatov, contrary to sensual impressions it is impossible to threaten the multiplicity. If things can be infinitely small, then their sum will not give something finite, the final thing. If things are finite, then between the final two things there is always the third thing; We again come to the contradiction, because the final thing consists of an infinite number of end things that is impossible. Not only the plurality is impossible, but also movement. In the argument "Dichotomy" (division into two) is proved: In order to pass a certain path, you must first pass it half, and to pass it, you need to go through a quarter of the way, and then one eighth way, and so indefinitely. It turns out that it is impossible to get from this point to the nearest to it, because it is actually no. If the movement is impossible, then the quick-legged Achill can not catch up with a turtle and have to admit that the flying boom does not fly.

So, Herclite is interested, first of all, the change and movement, their origins, the reasons that he sees in the opposance opposites. Eleata is primarily concerned about how to understand how to interpret what everyone is considered change and movement. According to the reflections of eleans, the lack of consistent explanation of the nature of the movement puts doubt on his reality.

Atomists. The crisis caused by the Aprons of Zenon was very deep; To at least partly overcome it, some special, unusual ideas were required. It was possible to make ancient atomists, the most outstanding among which were Levkipp and Democritis.

To get rid of difficulties with understanding once and forever, it was assumed that atoms are unchanged, they are indivisible and homogeneous. Atomists, as it were, "brought" a change in unchanged to atoms.

By democritus, there are atoms and emptiness. Atoms differ in the form, location, weighing. Atoms are moving in different directions. Earth, water, air, the fire is the primary groupings of atoms. The combinations of atoms form entire worlds: in infinite space there are infinite set of worlds. Of course, the person has a collection of atoms. The soul of man is composed of special atoms. Everything happens according to necessity, no accident.

Philosophy abstract

subject:

"Antique philosophy: basic problems, concepts and schools"

Introduction

1 Millet School and School Pythagora. Heraclitis and Eleaata. Atomists

2 schools of Socrates, Sofists and Plato

3 Aristotle

4 Philosophy of early Hellenism (Stoicism, Epicureism, Skepticism)

5 Neo-Platonism

Conclusion

List of used literature

Introduction

Most researchers are unanimous in that philosophy as a holistic phenomenon of culture is the creation of the genius of the ancient Greeks (VII-VI centuries. BC). Already in the poems of Homer and Gesiod, impressive attempts are made to present the world and the person's place in it. The desired goal is achieved mainly by means of art characteristic (artistic images) and religion (faith in the gods).

Philosophy supplemented myths and religions to the strengthening of rational motivations, the development of interest in systematic rational thinking based on concepts. Initially, the formation of philosophy in the Greek world contributed to the political freedoms achieved in the cities-states. Philosophers, the number of which increased, and the activity was becoming more professional, could withstand political and religious authorities. It was in the ancient Greek world that the philosophy was first constituted into an independent cultural education, which existed along with the art and religion, and not as their component.

Antique philosophy developed throughout the XII-XIII centuries, from the VII century. BC. by vi in. AD In historical terms, an antique philosophy can be divided into five periods:

1) the naturalistic period, where the focus was paid to the problems of nature (Fuseshi) and space (milders, Pythagoreans, Eleata, in short, the coastal);

2) the humanistic period with his attention to human problems, primarily to ethical issues (Socrates, Sofists);

3) a classic period with its grandiose philosophical systems of Plato and Aristotle;

4) the period of Hellenistic schools (stoics, epicuricals, skeptics) engaged in the moral arrangement of people;

5) Neoplatonism, with its universal synthesis, brought to the presentation of one-good.

The presented work discusses the basic concepts and schools of antique philosophy.

1 Millet School of Philosophy and School Pythagora. Heraclitis and Eleaata. Atomists.

One of the oldest philosophical schools is Miletsky (VII-V BB. BC). Thinking from the city of Mileta (ancient Greece) - Fales, Anaximen and Anaximandr.

All three thinkers made decisive steps to demi-physical ancient worldview. "What about everything?" - Here is a question that I was interested in mitets first. Itself setting the issue in its own way is genius, for it has its prerequisite conviction that everything can be explained, but for this it is necessary to find a single source for all. Such a source of Fales considered water, Anaximen - air, Anaximandr - some infinite and eternal beginning, Aperon (the term "Aperon" literally means "boundless"). Things arise as a result of those transformations that occur with the prebim, - condenses, declaring, evaporation. According to mitets, the primary substance is based on everything. Substance, by definition, there is something that does not need to explain in any other. Falez Water, Anaximna Air is substances.

To evaluate the views of mitets, turn to science. Milets postulated outside the world of events and phenomena mildets failed to go out, but they did such attempts, and in the right direction. They were looking for something natural, but imagined him as an event.

School Pythagora. Pythagoras is also engaged in the problem of substances, but fire, land, water as such is no longer satisfied. He comes to the conclusion that "everything is there is a number." Pythagoreans saw in the properties and relationships inherent in harmonic combinations. Pasthagoreans past the fact that if the lengths of the strings in the musical instrument (monochord) belong to each other, as 1: 2, 2: 3, 3: 4, then the resulting musical intervals will correspond to what is called octava, quinte and quart . Simple numerical relationships began to search in geometry and astronomy. Pythagoras, and before him, Fales, apparently, used the simplest mathematical evidence, which, quite possible, were borrowed in the East (in Babylonia). The invention of mathematical evidence was crucial for the formation of the type of rationality characteristic of a modern civilized person.

When evaluating the philosophical significance of the views of Pythagora, it should be given due to its insight. From the point of view of philosophy, an appeal to the phenomenon of numbers was of particular importance. The Pythagoreans explained the events based on the numbers and their ratios and thereby surpassed mitets, because they almost reached the level of laws of science. Any absolutization of numbers, as well as their patterns, is the revival of the historical limitations of Pythagoreania. It fully belongs to the magic of the numbers, which, I must say, the Pythagoreans gave tribute to the whole generosity of the enthusiastic soul.

Finally, it should be especially searched by the search by Pythagoreans of Harmony in all, beautiful quantitative consistency. Such a search is actually aimed at discovering laws, and this is one of the most complex scientific tasks. The ancient Greeks loved the harmony very much, admired her and knew how to create it in their lives.

Heraclitis and Eleaata. Further development of philosophical thought is most convincingly represented in the known confrontation of the teachings of Hercelit from Ephesus and Parmenide and Zenona from Ela.

Both parties agrees that the external feelings are not able to give true knowledge themselves, the truth is achieved by reflection. Heraclit believes that the world is ruled by Logos. The idea of \u200b\u200bthe Logos can be regarded as a naive understanding of patterns. Specifically, he meant that everything in the world consists of opposites opposing, everything happens through a straightening, fighting. As a result, everything changes, flows; Figuratively speaking, it is impossible to enter the same river twice. In the fight opposites, their internal identity is found. For example, "the life of some of the death of others", and indeed - life is death. Since everything is interconnected, then any property relative to: "Tslas Solom would prefer gold." Heraclit still overly trust the world of events, which determines both weak and strengths of his views. On the one hand, it is noticed, albeit in naive form, the most important properties of the world of events - their interaction, connectedness, relativity. On the other hand, he still does not know how to analyze the world of events from the standpoint characteristic of the scientist, i.e. With evidence, concepts. The world for Heraclita has fire, and the fire is an image of eternal movement and change.

The heraklitov philosophy of the identity of the opposites, the contradictions sharply criticized by Eleats. So, Parmenid considered those people who "to be" and "not to be" is considered the same and the same and the same thing is also there (this is a clear hint of Hercelite), "two-headed".

Eleata special attention was paid to the problem of multiplicity, in this regard, they came up with a number of paradoxes (aquaries), which and today cause headaches from philosophers, physicists and mathematicians. Paradox is an unexpected statement, an aporia is a difficulty, bewilderment, a difficult task.

According to Eleatov, contrary to sensual impressions it is impossible to threaten the multiplicity. If things can be infinitely small, then their sum will not give something finite, the final thing. If things are finite, then between the final two things there is always the third thing; We again come to the contradiction, because the final thing consists of an infinite number of end things that is impossible. Not only the plurality is impossible, but also movement. In the argument "Dichotomy" (division into two) is proved: In order to pass a certain path, you must first pass it half, and to pass it, you need to go through a quarter of the way, and then one eighth way, and so indefinitely. It turns out that it is impossible to get from this point to the nearest to it, because it is actually no. If the movement is impossible, then the quick-legged Achill can not catch up with a turtle and have to admit that the flying boom does not fly.

So, Herclite is interested, first of all, the change and movement, their origins, the reasons that he sees in the opposance opposites. Eleata is primarily concerned about how to understand how to interpret what everyone is considered change and movement. According to the reflections of eleans, the lack of consistent explanation of the nature of the movement puts doubt on his reality.

Atomists. The crisis caused by the Aprons of Zenon was very deep; To at least partly overcome it, some special, unusual ideas were required. It was possible to make ancient atomists, the most outstanding among which were Levkipp and Democritis.

To get rid of difficulties with understanding once and forever, it was assumed that atoms are unchanged, they are indivisible and homogeneous. Atomists, as it were, "brought" a change in unchanged to atoms.

By democritus, there are atoms and emptiness. Atoms differ in the form, location, weighing. Atoms are moving in different directions. Earth, water, air, the fire is the primary groupings of atoms. The combinations of atoms form entire worlds: in infinite space there are infinite set of worlds. Of course, the person has a collection of atoms. The soul of man is composed of special atoms. Everything happens according to necessity, no accident.

The philosophical achievement of atomists is to detect atomic, elementary. With whatever you have dealt with - with physical phenomenon, with theory, there is always elementary: atom (in chemistry), gene (in biology), material point (in mechanics), etc. Elementary acts as unchanged, not needed explained.

Naive in the ideas of atomists are explained by the underdevelopment of their views. Finding the atomicity in the world of events, phenomena, they were not yet able to give her theoretical description. Therefore, it is not surprising that very soon an ancient atomism met with the difficulties that he was not destined to overcome.

2 schools of Socrates, Sofists and Plato

The appeal of Socrates reached us mainly due to the perfectly in the philosophical and in artistic terms of Plato's works, a student of Socrates. In this regard, it is appropriate to connect the names of Socrates and Plato. First of Socrates. Socrates are largely different from the already mentioned philosophers, which mostly dealt with nature, and therefore they are called natural philosopham. Naturophilosophers sought to build a hierarchy in the world of events, to understand, for example, how the sky, land, stars were formed. Socrates also wants to understand the world, but in a fundamentally different manner, moving not from events to events, but from common to events. In this respect, it is typical for him to reason about the beautiful.

Socrates says he knows a lot of wonderful things: both sword, and a spear, and a girl, and a pot, and a mare. But every thing is beautiful in its own way, so it is impossible to litely tie with one thing. In this case, the other thing would no longer be beautiful. But all wonderful things have something in common - beautiful as such, these are their common idea, Eidos, or meaning.

Once it can be discovered not by feelings, but by the mind, then Socrates, he took a common thing to the world of mind and thus laid the foundations for some reason many hated idealism. Socrates like no one else caught that there is a generic, common. Starting from Socrates, humanity confidently began to master not only the world of events, but also the world of generic, in common. He comes to the conviction that the most important idea is the idea of \u200b\u200bgood, it is caused by the suitability and usefulness of everything else, including justice. For Socrates, there is nothing higher than ethical. Such a view will be in a subsequent decent place in the reflections of philosophers.

But what is ethically justified, virtuous? Socrates answers: Virtue is in knowledge of good and in action, according to this knowledge. He binds morality with mind, which gives reason to consider its ethics of rationalistic.

But how to acquire knowledge? On this score, Socrates developed a certain method - a dialectic consisting of the irony and birth of thought, concepts. The irony is that the exchange of opinions first gives a negative result: "I know that I don't know anything." However, this case does not end, busting opinions, their discussion allows you to achieve new thoughts. Surprisingly, the dialectic of Socrates completely saved its value to the present. Exchange of views, dialogue, discussion are the most important means of obtaining new knowledge, understanding the degree of their own limitations.

Finally, the principle of Socrates should be noted. For supposedly from Socrates, the corruption of young people and the introduction of new deities he was convicted. Having many opportunities to avoid execution, Socrates, however, based on the beliefs that the laws of the country must be observed that death belongs to the Bren Body, but not by the eternal soul (the soul is eternal like everything), accepted the cicuta poison.

Softers. Socrates a lot and from fundamental positions argued with Sofists (V-IV centuries. BC.; Sofist is a wisdom teacher). Softers and cuts lived in a stormy era: wars, destruction of states, the transition from tyranny to slave democracy and vice versa. Under these conditions, I want to understand a person in contrast to nature. Nature, natural sophists opposed artificial artificial. There is no natural, including traditions, customs, religion in society. Here the right to existence receives only what is justified, has been proven what tribesmen managed to convince. Based on this, the sophists, these enlighteners of ancient Greek society paid close attention to the problems of language and logic. In their speeches, the Sofists sought to be eloquent, and logical. They understood perfectly well that the correct and convincing speech is the case of the "Master of Names" and Logic.

The initial interest of the sophists for society, to the person was reflected in the position of the Protagor: "A person is a measure of all things: existing that they exist, non-existent that they do not exist." If there were no words after the colon and the proposal was limited to the statement that "a person is a measure of all things," then we would deal with the principle of humanism: a person in his actions comes from his interests. But Protagoras insists more: a person is even a measure of the very existence of things. We are talking about the relativity of the entire existing, including about the relativity of knowledge. The thought of the protagoda is of complex character, but it was often understood in a simplified form: what I think every thing, such she is. Naturally, from the point of view of modern science, such arguments are naive, the arbitrary of a subjective assessment in science is not recognized; To avoid it, there are many ways, for example, a measurement. One cold, another is hot, and the thermometer is here to the place to determine the genuine air temperature. However, the thought of the protagora is rather unusual: the feeling really can not be mistaken - but in what sense? That you need to warm up, patient cure. Protagor translates the problem into a practical sphere. This manifests the dignity of his philosophical installation, it protects against the oblivion of real life, which, as you know, are not uncommon.

But is it possible to agree that all judgments and sensations are equally true? Unlikely. It becomes obvious that Protagor did not escape the extremes of relativism - the teachings on the conventionality and the relativity of human knowledge.

Of course, not all the sophists were equally sophisticated in the controversy by the masters, some of them gave reason to understand sophistry in the wrong sense of the word, as a way to build false conclusions and not without selfish goal. We bring the ancient Sophism "horned": "What you did not lose, you have; You have not lost the horns, therefore you have them."

Plato. About the ideas of Plato. One who even knows very little about philosophy, however, it is necessary to assume, heard the name of Plato, an outstanding thinker of antiquity. Plato seeks to develop Socratic representations. Things are not considered only in their apparent so familiar empirical existence. For all things, its meaning is recorded, the idea that, as it turns out, for each thing of this class of things is the same and indicated by one name. There are many horses, dwarf and normal, pancakes and the crow, but everyone has the same meaning - horse. Accordingly, it is possible to talk about the beautiful in general, good at all, green in general, the house in general. Plato is convinced that without appealing to ideas could not do, because it is the only way to overcome the diversity, inexhaustibility of the sensitly empirical world.

But if, along with individual things, there are also ideas, each of which refers to a particular class of things, then, naturally, the question of the relationship between the Unified (idea) with many. How do the thing and idea correlate with each other? Plato is considering this connection to two duality: as a transition from things to the idea and as a transition from idea to things. He understands that the idea and thing somehow come to each other. But, according to Plato, the degree of involvement can reach a different level of perfection. Among the many horses, we can easily find or more and less perfect. Closest to the idea of \u200b\u200bhorses the most perfect horse. Then it turns out that as part of the ratio thing - the idea - the idea is the limit of the formation of things; As part of the same relationship, the idea is the idea is a generating model of the class of things to which it is concerned.

Thought, the word is prerogatives of a person. Ideas exist without a person. Ideas are objective. Plato is an objective idealist, a prominent representative of objective idealism. General exists, and in the face of Plato, objective idealism has a great merit to humanity. Meanwhile, the general (idea) and a separate (thing) are so closely connected to each other that there is no real transition mechanism from one to another.

Plato's cosmology. Plato dreamed of creating a comprehensive concept of the world. Excellent conscious of the power of the ideas created by him, he sought to develop an idea of \u200b\u200bboth space and society. It is very significant how Plato uses its concept of ideas in this regard, modestly noting that he claims only a "plausible opinion". The space picture of the world Plato gives in the Timy dialogue.

The world soul in its original state is divided into elements - fire, air, land. Accordingly, harmonious mathematical relations God gave the most perfect form - the form of sphere. In the center of Cosmos - Earth. The orbits of the planets and stars are subject to harmonious mathematical ratios. God-Demiurg also creates living beings.

So, the cosmos is a living creature gifted by the mind. The structure of the world is as follows: Divine Mind (demiurg), world soul and world body. All that is happening, temporary, as well as the time itself, there is an image of eternal, ideas.

Platonovskaya Picture of Cosmos summed up a peculiar result of naturophilosophy of nature in the IV century. BC. For many centuries, at least before the Renaissance, this picture of the world stimulated the philosophical and private scientific search.

In a number of relations, the Platonic picture of the world does not withstand criticism. It is extremely invented, does not correspond to modern data of science. But what is surprising: even taking into account all this it would be very rawful to pass it into the archive. The fact is that scientific data is not available to everyone, especially in some generalized, systematized form. Plato was the Great Systematics, his picture of the space is simple, in its own way to many. She is unusually aggregated: space is animate, harmonious, in it every step is found to divine mind. According to the specified and other grounds, the Platonovsky picture of the space has its supporters and today. We see justification to such a position also in the fact that in a hidden, non-verminated form it contains the potential that can be used productively and today. The Timy Plato is a myth, but the myth is special, built with a logical and aesthetic grace. This is not only a significant philosophical, but also an artistic work.

Teaching Plato about society. Reflecting on society, Plato again seeks to use the concept of ideas. The manifold of human needs and the impossibility of satisfying them alone is a motive for creating a state. According to Platon, the greatest good is justice. Injustice is evil. The latter he relates to the following types of state-owned device: Timocratic (the power of ambitions), oligarchy (rich power), tyranny and democracy, accompanied by arbitrariness and anarchy.

The fair state device Plato "displays" from three parts of the soul: reasonable, affective and lust. Some intelligent, wise, they are capable and, therefore, should manage the state. Others are affective, courageous, they are destined to be strategists, commander teams, warriors. Third, with the advantage of the desired soul, restrained, they need to be craftsmen, farmers. So, there are three estates: rulers; strategists; farmers and artisans. Further, Plato gives a lot of specific recipes, for example, what we need to learn and how to educate, offers to deprive the guards of the property, establish the community of women and children for them, introduces various types of regulation (sometimes small). Literature is subject to strict censorship, everything that can defams the idea of \u200b\u200bvirtue. In the afterlime world - and the soul of a person as an idea continues to exist and after his death - virtuously waiting for bliss, and vicious - terrible flour.

Plato begins with ideas, then he comes from the ideal. All the smartest authors come in the same way using ideas about the idea and ideal. Plato has an ideal - justice. The ideological basis of Platonic reflections deserves the highest assessment, without it, it is impossible to submit a modern person.

Plato ethics. Plato managed to identify many acute philosophical problems. One of them concerns the ratio of ideas and ethics. At the top of the Socratic and Platonic Hierarchy is the idea of \u200b\u200bgood. But why exactly the idea of \u200b\u200bgood, and not an idea, for example, beauty or truth? Plato argues: "... What gives the truth to knowledgeable things, and a person gives the ability to know, then you are considering the idea of \u200b\u200bthe good, the reason for the knowledge and the cognition of truth. Like anything and other things are knowledge and truth - but if The idea of \u200b\u200bthe good you will be considered something even more beautiful, you will be right. " Fortunately manifests itself in various ideas: both in the idea of \u200b\u200bbeauty, and in the idea of \u200b\u200btruth. In other words, Plato puts ethical (i.e. the idea of \u200b\u200bgood) above the aesthetic (idea of \u200b\u200bbeauty) and scientific and educational (ideas of truth). Plato is well aware that the ethical, aesthetic, cognitive, political is somehow relate to each other, one determines the other. He, being consistent in his arguments, every idea "loads" moral content.

3 Aristotle

Aristotle along with Plato, his teacher, is the greatest ancient Greek philosopher. In a number of relations, Aristotle seems to be like a decisive enemy Plato. In fact, he continues his teacher's business. Aristotle More than Plato enters the subtleties of various kinds of situations. It is more specifically, the empirical Plato, it truly interests the individual, vital.

A distinctive unit being Aristotle calls the substance. This is such a being that is not able to stay in another, being, it exists in itself. According to Aristotle, the unit being is a combination of matter and eidos (forms). Matter is the possibility of being and at the same time some substrate. From copper you can make a ball, statue, i.e. How Matter Copper is the possibility of a ball and statue. With regard to a separate subject, the entity always turns out to be a form (sphericality with respect to the copper ball). The form is expressed by the concept. So, the concept of the ball is true and then when the ball has not yet made from the copper. When matteria is framed, then there is no matter without a form, as well as forms without matter. It turns out that Eidos is a form - this is the essence of a separate, single object, and what is covered by this concept. Aristotle stands at the basics of the modern scientific style of thinking. By the way, when a modern person speaks and thinks about the essence, he owes his rationalistic setup by Aristotle.

Every thing has four reasons: entity (shape), matter (substrate), action (start of movement) and purpose ("that for which"). But also the current reason, and the target cause is determined by EIDOS, the form. Eidos determines the transition from matter to reality, this is the main dynamic and semantic content of things. Here we are dealing, perhaps, with the main substantive aspect of Aristototelism, the central principle of which is the formation and manifestation of essence, primary attention to the dynamics of processes, movement, change, and to the fact that it is connected, in particular to the problem of time.

There is a whole hierarchy of things (item \u003d matter + shape), from inorganic objects to plants, living organisms and man (Human Eidos is his soul). In this hierarchical chain, extreme units are of particular interest. By the way, the beginning and end of every process are usually of particular importance.

The concept of the urban motor was the logical final link of the ideas developed by Aristotle on the unity of matter and Eidos. The mind Mother Aristotle calls God. But this, of course, not personalized Christian God. Subsequently, through the century, Christian theologians with interest will be treated by Aristotelian views. An opportune-dynamic understanding of the Aristotle of all existing has led a number of very fruitful approaches to the permission of certain problems, in particular to the problem of space and time. Aristotle considered them after the movement, and not just as an independent substance. Space acts as a totality of places, each place is owned by some thing. Time is the number of movements; Like the number, it is the same for various movements.

Logic and methodology. In the works of Aristotle, significant perfection reached logic and generally categorical, i.e. Conceptual, analysis. Many modern researchers believe that the most important thing in logic is done by Aristotle.

Aristotle is very detailed examines a number of categories, each of which acts in a three-way form: 1) as a genus of being; 2) as a form of thought; 3) as a statement. Categories that are particularly skillfully operates Aristotle, the essence of the following: essence, property, ratio, quantity and quality, movement (action), space and time. But Aristotle operates not only by certain categories, it analyzes the statements, the relationship between which the three famous laws of formal logic are determined.

The first law of logic is the law of identity (and is a), i.e. The concept should be used in the same meaning. The second law of logic is the law of an excluded contradiction (and not there). The third law of logic is the law of an excluded third (or non-True, "the third is not given").

Based on the laws of Logic, Aristotle builds the doctrine of syllogism. Sillogism can not be identified with the proof at all.

Aristotle quite clearly reveals the content of the famous Socratic dialogic method. The dialogue contains: 1) formulation; 2) the strategy for asking questions and receive answers to them; 3) Proper construction of conclusion.

Society. Ethics. In his teaching about the society, Aristotle is more concreteen and far-sighted than Plato, together with the latter, he believes that the meaning of life is not in pleasure, as Hedonists believed, but in the most advanced goals and happiness, in the implementation of virtues. But, contrary to Plato, the benefit should be achievable, and not an externally ideal. The goal of a person is to become a creature virtuous, not vicious. Virtues are acquired qualities, among them the most important - wisdom, prudence, courage, generosity, generosity. The harmonious combination of all virtues is justice. Virtues can and need to learn. They perform a middle, compromise a prudent man: "Nothing too ...". The generosity is the middle between the vanity and the trouble, the courage is the middle between the reckless courage and cowardice, generosity - the middle between wastefulness and misfortune. Ethics In general, Aristotle defines as practical philosophy.

The forms of the state device Aristotle divides on the right (the overall use is achieved) and incorrect (meaning only benefits for some).

Right forms: Monarchy, Aristocracy, Politia

Incorrect forms, taking into account the number of ruling: one - tyranny; Rich minority - oligarchy; Most - democracy

Aristotle associates a certain state structure with principles. The principle of aristocracy is virtue, the principle of the oligarchy is wealth, the principle of democracy - freedom and poverty, including spiritual.

Aristotle actually summed up the development of classical ancient Greek philosophy. He created a very differentiated knowledge system, the development of which continues and is still.

4 Philosophy of early Hellenism (Stoicism, Epicureism, Skepticism)

Consider the three main philosophical flows of early Hellenism: Stoicism, epicureism, skepticism. For their occasion, a brilliant connoisseur of ancient philosophy. A.F.loshev argued that they were nothing more than a subjective species, respectively, of the Diskratovsky theory of material elements (fire, first of all), philosophy of democritus and heraclit philosophy: Fire theory - Stoicism, an ancient atomism - epicureism, the philosophy of heraklitum yecepticism.

Stoicism. As a philosophical direction, Stoicism existed from the III century. BC. up to III century AD The main representatives of the early stoicism were Zenon Kythius, Cleanf and Chrysipp. Later, Plutarch, Cicero, Seneca, Mark Aurelius became famous as the stoics.

Stoics believed that the body of the world was made of fire, air, earth and water. The soul of the world is a fiery and air pneuma, a certain all-pervading breath. According to a long-standing antique tradition, the fire was considered to be the main element, from all the elements he is the most all-perky, life. Thanks to this, the whole space, including a person, is a single fiery organism with its laws (Logos) and fluidity. The main question for the stops is to determine the place of a person in space.

Carefully thinking the situation, the Stoiki come to the conviction that the laws of being were beyond the person, a person is susceptible to rock, fate. There is no place from fate, reality needs to be taken as it is, with all its fluidity of bodily properties, ensuring the diversity of human life. Fate, rock can be hated, the Stoic is more likely to love her, getting a rest within the available.

Stoics seek to detect the meaning of life. The essence of the subjective, they considered the word, its semantic meaning (ledon). Lerton - meaning - above all kinds of positive and negative judgments, we are talking about judgment at all. Lerton is carried out in the inner life of a person, creating the state of the attaccia, i.e. Peaceful peace of mind, calm. Stoic is by no means indifferent to all that is happening, quite on the contrary, it refers to everything with maximum attention and interest. But he still definitely understands the world, his logos, the law and in full compliance with him retains peace of mind. So, the main points of the Stoic picture of the world are as follows:

1) Cosmos is a fiery organism;

2) a person exists within the framework of cosmic laws, hence his fatalism, fatefulness, a kind of love for that and the other;

3) the meaning of peace and man is the lecton, the significance of the word, which is neutral to both mental and physical;

4) the understanding of the world inevitably leads to the state of the attaccia, inconsistency;

5) not only a separate person, but also people generally make up inseparable unity with space; Cosmos can and should be considered as God, and as a world state (thereby gets its development the idea of \u200b\u200bPantheism (nature is God) and the idea of \u200b\u200bhuman equality).

Already early stories allocated a number of deepest philosophical problems. If a person is subject to various kinds of laws, physical, biological, social, then to what extent is it free? How does he belong to all that he limits him? In order to somehow cope with these questions, it is necessary and useful to go through the school of stoic thought.

Epicureism. The largest epicureism representatives are the epicuria and lucretrosis of the car. Epicureism as a philosophical direction existed at the same historical time as stoicism is the period of the V-VI centuries at the turn of the old and new era. Like the stoics, the epicuretes put, above all, the issues of dispensation, the comfort of personality. Fireproofness of the soul is a general presentation of the steaks and epicuretes, but the stoics see some meaning behind it, and epicuretes are the basis of sensations. At the foreground in the foreground - the mind, so-shaped with nature, and the epicureans have a feeling, according to nature. The sensual world is that for epicureans represents the main interest. Hence the main ethical principle of Epicuresev - pleasure. The doctrine that the corner puts pleasure is called hedonism. The content of the feeling of pleasure epicuretes understood by no means simplistic and the more not in the vulgar spirit. Epicura is talking about calm noble if you want a balanced pleasure.

For epicureans, the sensual world is a real reality. The world of sensuality is unusually changeable, multiple. There are limit forms of feelings, sensual atoms, or, in other words, atoms are not by themselves, but in the world of feelings. Epicurians gives atoms spontaneity, "freedom of will". Atoms are moving along curves, wooled and broken. The presentation of the Stoic Rock comes an end.

Epicureca is not over himself a lord, there is no need, he has freedom of will. He can retire, indulge in his own pleasure, dive into himself. Epicurets is not afraid of death: "While we exist, there is no death; when there is death, we are no longer." Life is the main pleasure with her start and even end. (Dying, epicuris took a warm bath and asked to bring him wine.)

The person consists of atoms that provide him with the wealth of the world of sensations, where he can always find a comfortable abode, refusing active activities, desire to reroach the world. Epipurets belongs to the life world completely disinterestedly and however, seeks to merge with him. If you bring the quality of the epicurean sage to an absolute limit, then we will receive an idea of \u200b\u200bthe gods. They also consist of atoms, but not disintegrating atoms, and therefore the gods are immortal. The gods are blessed, they have no need to interfere in the affairs of people and the universe. Yes, this would not give any positive result, for in the world where there is freedom of will, there is no and cannot be sustainable targeted actions. Therefore, there is nothing to do the gods on Earth, the epicurian places them into the intermorm space, they go there. But the birth rate of the epicurus does not deny (he himself visited the temple). Honor of gods, a person himself is strengthened in the correctness of its own self-sustaining of active practical life on the paths of epicorean ideas. List the main ones:

1) everything consists of atoms that can spontaneously deviate from rectilinear trajectories;

2) a person consists of atoms, which provides him with the wealth of feelings and pleasures;

3) The world of feelings is not illusory, it is the main content of the human, everything else, including the ideal-thought, "closes" for sensory life;

4) Gods are indifferent to human affairs (about it, they say, evidenced by evil in the world).

5) For a happy life, a person needs three main components: the lack of bodily suffering (apone), the imperfectivity of the soul (atraxia), friendship (as an alternative to political and other confrontations).

Skepticism. Skepticism is a characteristic feature of all antique philosophy; As an independent philosophical direction, it operates during the relevance of stoicism and epicureism. The largest representatives - Pierron and Sex Empirik.

Antique skeptic rejected the knowledge of life. To preserve the inner calm, a person needs to know a lot from philosophy, but not to deny something or, on the contrary, to argue (any statement is denial, and, on the contrary, any negation has a statement). An antique skeptic is by no means a nichist, he lives, as he wants, fundamentally avoiding the need to evaluate something. Skeptic is in constant philosophical search, but he is convinced that genuine knowledge is in principle unattainable. Being performs in all the diversity of its fluidity (remember Heraclitus): it seems that there is something definite, but it immediately disappears. Skeptic points in this regard to the time itself, it is, but it is not, "grasp" for it can not be. Stable meaning is generally absent, all tech, so you live as you want, make life in its immediate pay. Kinded a lot can not adhere to strictly unambiguous opinions. Skeptic can not be a judge nor a lawyer. Skeptic carnad sent to Rome to apply to the cancellation of the tax, one day spoke before the public for the tax, another day against the tax. Sudringe-skeptics is better to climb. His silence is a philosophical response to his questions. We list the main provisions of ancient skepticism:

1) The world of tech, he does not make sense and clear certainty;

2) there is any approval at the same time and denial, every "yes" there is at the same time "no"; genuine philosophy of skepticism - silence;

3) Follow the "world of phenomena", keep the inner peace.

5. Neoplatonism

The main provisions of neoplatonism were developed by dams, in the mature age who lived in Rome. Below, when presenting the content of neoplatonism, predominantly the ideas of the dam are used.

Neoplatonists sought to give the philosophical picture of the entire existing, including space as a whole. It is impossible to understand the life of a subject outside of space, as well as the life of space without subject. The existing arranged hierarchically: one-dating, mind, soul, matter. Higher place in the hierarchy belongs to one-good.

The soul produces all living beings. All that is moving, forms space. The lowest form of being is matte. By itself, it is not active, Kosna, it is a perception of possible forms and meaning.

The main task of a person is to think deeply, feel its place in the structural hierarchy of being. Good (good) comes from above, from one, evil - from the bottom, from matter. Evil is not worthy, it is not connected with the blessing. A person can avoid evil to the extent that he manage to climb the stairs is intangible: the soul-mind-one. The soul stairs-uniform corresponds to the sequence feeling - thought - ecstasy. Here, of course, attention is drawn to ecstasy, which costs above thought. But ecstasy, it should be noted, includes all the wealth of mental and sensual.

Neoplatonists see the harmony and beauty everywhere, for them responsibly actually united-good. As for the lives of people, it also cannot in principle to contradict universal harmony. People are the actors, they only carry out, each in their own way, the script that is laid in the world mind. Neoplatonism managed to give a rather synthetic philosophical picture of the modern ancient society to him. It was the last flourishing of antique philosophy.

Conclusion

The field of problematic issues in the philosophy of antiquity was constantly expanding. Their development acquired an increasingly detailed and in-depth character. It can be concluded that the characteristic features of the ancient philosophy are as follows.

1. Antique syncretic philosophy, this means that it is characterized by a large fusion, the absent of the most important problems than for subsequent types of philosophizing. Antique philosopher, as a rule, distributed ethical categories to all space.

2. Antique Cosmatrich Philosophy: Her horizons always cover the whole space, including the world of man. This means that it is the antique philosophers that have developed the most universal categories.

3. Antique philosophy comes from space, sensual and breathtaking. In contrast to medieval philosophy, it does not put an idea of \u200b\u200bGod for the first place. However, space in ancient philosophy is often considered an absolute deity (not a person); This means that the antique philosophy of pantheistic.

4. Antique philosophy reached a lot at the conceptual level - the concept of the ideas of Plato, the concept of form (Eidos) Aristotle, the concept of the meaning of the word (lecture) at the Stoics. However, it almost does not know the laws. The logic of antiquity is predominantly the logic of common names, concepts. However, in the logic of Aristotle, the logic of proposals is very informed, but again at the level characteristic of the era of antiquity.

5. Ethics of antiquity is the advantage of ethics of virtues, and not the ethics of debt and values. Antique philosophers characterized by a person mainly as endowed with virtues and vices. In the development of ethics of virtues, they reached extraordinary heights.

6. The striking ability of antique philosophers to find answers to the cardinal questions of being. Antique philosophy is truly functional, it is designed to help people in their lives. Antique philosophers sought to find the road to happily for their contemporaries. Antique philosophy did not go to the story, she retained its meaning and today and is waiting for new researchers.

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Antique philosophy originated in Greek cities-states ("Polisions") at the turn of the VII-VI centuries. BC.). Having experienced a period of brilliant heyday in U1-u. BC. It continues to develop in the era of Alexander the Macedonian and Roman Empire until the beginning of the VI century. AD

Periods of antique philosophy:

· naturalistic(Space and search problems initiated Being) - Miretskaya School, Pythagoreans, Eclectic Physics.

· classical (problems of determining the essence of a person, the issues of happiness, freedom, morality) - Softeers, Socrates

· Period big Synthesis(Plato and Aristotle) \u200b\u200b- the opening of the ideal being, the formulation of the main philosophical problems, the construction of the first major metaphysical systems.

· hellenistic schoolsthe era of the conquests of Alexander Macedonsky and to the end of the pagan era - kinism, epicureism, stoicism, skepticism.

The main features of ancient philosophy:

1. Syncretism, i.e. Eurence, the fusion of the most important problems, the spread of ethical categories for all space.

2. Cosmocentrism. Antique philosophy is trying to develop universal categories, covering the problems of human and space interrelation problems, give a meaningful representation of a person's essence as a microcosm.

3. Pantheist, understood as cosmos breathtaking and as an absolute deity.

4. Virtue and functionality. Antique philosophy is designed to help people in their lives.

The problems of being. Millet schools were laid. Fales believed that all existing originated from wet poverty or water. Everything is born from this primary source.

Anaximen poses the air. It is the air that is peculiar to the process of permitting and thickening, thanks to which all substances are formed from it.

According to Heraclitus, the world or nature is in the continuous process of change, of all natural substances most, the most opposed is the fire. Therefore, the original nature is "fire". The world remains on the basis of fire, despite all its transformations.

Anaximandr as initially calls a non-specific material substance, but an "Afeiron" is an eternal, immeasurable, infinite substance, from which everything arises, everything consists in which everything turns into.

Atomists are a materialistic philosophical school whose philosophers (Democritis, Levkipp) "Building Material" of all of the following were microscopic particles - "Atoms". The whole material world consists of atoms. Atom - "First Circuit" of the whole existing one. Atoms are eternal and unchanged, things are transient and changeable. So atomists tried to build a picture of the world, in which the emergence and destruction, movement, multiplicity of things are possible.

The materialistic solution of the problems of being in the natural philosophy of the ancient Greeks Plato contrasted an idealistic decision. He created a doctrine about ideas - the disembodied entities of things and phenomena. Materials arise and die, change and move, there is nothing durable and true in them. Permanent, eternal and unchanged are ideas (EIDOS) of material items. The material world is formed from the connection of "ideas" and "matter", what makes the "idea" design and materiality. Plato believes that the world of ideas is primary, the world of ideas is secondary. Therefore, it is called the creator of the world's first idealistic system.

Pupil Plato Aristotle made a criticism of his teacher. Plato's mistake, from his point of view, was that he touched the "world of ideas" from the real world. The essence of the subject in the very subject, and not outside it. There is no and the world of "clean ideas", there are only single and specifically defined items. The essence of the subject and the reason for it is enclosed in a form that is inseparable from the thing. The form is the key concept of Aristotle. It is a form that makes the subject of what it is.

Genesis on aristotle hierarchical and is expressed in the hierarchy of forms. Lifting the ladder forms The value of matter weakens, and the form increases. The form of non-living objects is a vegetable form - an animal - a person (soul) of a person - God (as a clean form freed from matter in general). The God of Aristotle is the perfect mind, the source of all movement is the original motor, although he himself is still, eternal, does not have history, impassten and does not take part in the affairs of people. God is like absolute perfection, the target, the final reason that the whole world entails himself.

The problem of man in ancient philosophy. This problem in the philosophical thought of antiquity is presented in various approaches:

· Natural approach - a man like a small similarity of the Universe (Fales, Anaximen, Heraclit, Democritis);

· Anthropological approach - the focus of the person, his psychology, a social life device (Softeers, Socrates, Epicur);

· Sociocentric approach - society plays an active role in educating a person (Plato, Aristotle).

Problems of social device. In the ancient philosophy there are two main trends in the understanding of society:

· Society as an artificial education, the result of the agreement between people (sophists);

· Society as a natural education, legal norms are based on natural and universal human law (Plato, Aristotle). Plato considers society as a complex social system, including various spheres (production, management, creation of spiritual values), based on the division of labor. Aristotle believes that both for state reign (as well as in ethics) "moderate and secondary is the best", that is, it is the average estate that owns moderate property and establish the best form of government. Unlike Plato, Aristotle - Protector of Private Property. He suggests that "one thought about the property delivers unraded to pleasure." The cause of the company's injustice is the reluctance of the managers to act in the interests of the common good. It is the service that the general good is the criterion of the right forms.