Abstract

The significance of philosophy for humankind is determined by the fact that it is the scientific discipline of the most general laws of nature, society, and thought. Specifically, as it uncovers, in the process of scientific analysis of the past and present of humanity, universal laws of the functioning and development of society, and as it marks the principal features of the future state of society, philosophy acts for humankind as knowledge needed to provide the basis for human activity in history; it assumes an ideological dimension