| 5 | Introduction |
| Chapter One | |
| THE LOVE OF WISDOM. ORIGIN OF THE NOTION OF "PHILOSOPHY" | |
| 18 | 1. SECULARISATION OF “DIVINE” WISDOM |
| 36 | 2. DEIFICATION OF HUMAN WISDOM |
| 42 | 3. A NEW AGE AND A NEW IDEAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL KNOWLEDGE |
| 52 | 4. PROBLEM OF WISDOM AS A REAL PROBLEM |
| Chapter Two | |
| MEANING OF THE QUESTION "WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?" | |
| 65 | 1. PHILOSOPHY AS A PROBLEM FOR ITSELF |
| 76 | 2. HOW PHILOSOPHY DELIMITS, COGNISES AND DETERMINES ITSELF |
| 82 | 3. FIRST HISTORICAL FORM OF THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE |
| 88 | 4. PHILOSOPHY AS AN ALIENATED FORM OF SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS |
| 97 | 5. SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS OR SCIENCE? |
| 107 | 6. CRITICISM OF THE EXISTENTIALIST INTERPRETATION OF THE QUESTION "WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?" |
| Chapter Three | |
| PHILOSOPHY AS A SPECIFIC FORM OF COGNITION | |
| 115 | 1. QUALITATIVE DIVERSITY OF KNOWLEDGE |
| 120 | 2. SPECULATION, LOGIC, FACTS |
| 136 | 3. INTUITION, TRUTH, CREATIVE IMAGINATION |
| 148 | 4. INTERPRETATION AS A MODE OF PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY |
| 166 | 5. THEORETICAL SYNTHESIS OF DIVERSE CONTENT |
| Chapter Four | |
| DEFINITION OF PHILOSOPHY AS A PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM | |
| 178 | 1. DIFFICULTIES OF DEFINING PHILOSOPHY DUE TO THE PECULIAR NATURE OF ITS HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT |
| 191 | 2. DIVERSITY OF DEFINITIONS OF PHILOSOPHY |
| 219 | 3. PHILOSOPHY AS A SPECIFIC WORLD VIEW |
| Chapter Five | |
| NATURE OF PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS | |
| 237 | 1. QUESTIONS THAT CANNOT BE LEFT UNANSWERED |
| 273 | 2. PROBLEMS, OLD AND NEW, ETERNAL AND TRANSIENT |
| Chapter Six | |
| THE SUBJECT-MATTER OF PHILOSOPHY | |
| 287 | 1. THE SUBJECT-MATTER OF PHILOSOPHY AS A PROBLEM |
| 302 | 2. FUNDAMENTAL PHILOSOPHICAL THEMES |
| 333 | 3. THE SUBJECT-MATTER OF DIALECTICAL AND HISTORICAL MATERIALISM |
| Chapter Seven | |
| PHILOSOPHY AS THE SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE HISTORICAL EPOCH | |
| 343 | 1. ROLE OF THE PERSONALITY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PHILOSOPHY |
| 366 | 2. EPOCHS IN PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC EPOCHS |
| 386 | 3. IDEOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF PHILOSOPHY |
| Chapter Eight | |
| ON THE NATURE OF PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATE | |
| 409 | 1. INEVITABILITY OF SCIENTIFIC DEBATE |
| 423 | 2. IDEOLOGICAL SOURCES OF PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATE |
| 436 | 3. THEORETICAL ROOTS OF PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATE |
| 457 | CONCLUSION |
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