Abstract

Despite of the fact that walking is the most natural motion of a person and walk is a wide-spread phenomenon of human life, it is mostly out of the philosophical interest. It seems that walk is connected with thinking and philosophizing ob ovo. In the paper we aim to state inseparable connection and two-way influence of walking and thinking, moreover, of walk and philosophizing. Walk is interesting at least from three points of view: walk is a very specific manifestation of social, cultural and communicative activity; walk is a certain style of life of philosophers and of ordinary people, so to say, in “personal” dimension; walk and walking is one of the basic metaphors for the description and research of the thinking and discourse processes. In order to conceptualizing this “philosophy of walk” it is possible to use the known frame of binary oppositions. We can use in the analysis such oppositions as “inner–outer”, “order–confusion”, “consonance–dissonance”, “slowness–bustle”, “possibility of cessation–rashness”, “purposefulness–pointlessness”, “objective–means”.