Issue #26

Abstract: The article by A. P. Ogurtsov, written in the late 1970s — early 1980s, discusses the possibility or necessity of ontology for philosophy. The author believes that the decisive trend of the philosophy of the twentieth century is an anti-ontologic tendency, which arose against the background of the awareness of the fragility and instability of human existence. This philosophy is based solely on the theory of knowledge. In his opinion, the rejection of ontology was due to the fact that the philosophy of this period sought to proceed from the historicity of human existence, turned into a temporary flow of events, with a desire to turn this unobjectified flow into the original first principle. After analyzing the state of the philosophy of the twentieth century with the naturalistic interpretation of being, the categorical schemes of the subject’s cognitive relation to the object, relying exclusively on rationalistic justification, he comes to justify the possibility of ontology, understood through the understanding of the acts of objectification of consciousness, through the connection of mental and spiritual acts and the world of objectively ideal meanings, relying, in particular , on the philosophy of Heidegger, on the one hand, and Marx, on the other.