The Main Trends in Philosophy:
A Theoretical Analysis of the History of Philosophy
CONTENTS
Page
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Part One. THE BASIC PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION AS A PROBLEM OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
I. THE SENSE AND MEANING OF THE BASIC PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
1. The Basic Philosophical Question and the Problematic of Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
2. Self‑Awareness and the External World. The Epistemological Necessity of the Basic Philosophical Question . . . . . 22
3. On the Origin and Development of the Basic Philosophical Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
4. The Basic Philosophical Question: Objective Content and Subjective Form of Expression.
The Real Starting Point of Philosophical Inquiry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
II. THE TWO SIDES OF THE BASIC PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
1. The Ontological Aspect: the Materialist Answer to the Basic Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
2. The Ontological Aspect: a Contribution to the Delineation of the
Idealist Answer to the Basic Philosophical Question . . . .�. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .743. The Epistemological Aspect. The Principle of Reflection and the
Idealist Interpretation of the Knowability of the World . . .�. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874. The Epistemological Aspect. The Principle of the Knowability of the World and Philosophical Scepticism . . . . . 104
Part Two. PHILOSOPHICAL TRENDS AS AN OBJECT OF RESEARCH IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
III. THE DIVERGENCE OF PHILOSOPHICAL DOCTRINES AND ITS INTERPRETATION. METAPHYSICAL
SYSTEMS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ANTITHESIS
BETWEEN MATERIALISM AND IDEALISM 138
1.Dispute about Trends or Dispute of Trends? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
2.Metaphysical Systems. Spiritualism and the Naturalist Tendency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
3.Materialismthe Sole Consistent Opponent of Speculative Metaphysical Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
4. Kant's Transcendental Dualist Metaphysics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
5. Toward a Critique of Irrationalist Speculative Metaphysics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
6. The Dispute between Materialism and Idealism and Differences in Understanding Speculative Metaphysics . . . 195
IV. THE GREAT CONFRONTATION: MATERIALISM VS IDEALISM.
THE ARGUMENTS AND COUNTERARGUMENTS . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . 215
1. The Struggle of Materialism and Idealism as an Epochal Cultural and Historical Phenomenon . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .215
2. Idealism vs Materialism. Materialism vs Idealism. Results and Prospects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
3. The Dialectical‑Materialist Critique of Idealism. The Epistemological Roots of Idealist Fallacies . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 262
4. The Dialectical‑Materialist Critique of Idealism. The Principle of the Partisanship of Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . 274
CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
LITERATURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
NAME INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
SUBJECT INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
SOURCE: Oizerman, T.I. [Oizerman, Teodor Il'ich]; translated by H. Campbell Creighton. The Main Trends in Philosophy: A Theoretical Analysis of the History of Philosophy. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1988.
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