Author(s): Anatoly Rakitov
Series: Student's Library
Publisher: Mir Publishers
Year: 1989
Language: English
City: Moscow
Title Page
CONTENTS
How to Use This Book
INTRODUCTION
WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?
Who Needs Philosophy? And Why?
The Basic Question. The Subject-Matter and Method of Philosophy
The Origin and Development of Philosophy
Chapter I MATTER AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Matter and the Picture of the World
Motion, Time and Space
Reflection as a General Property of Matter
Human Consciousness
Chapter II SOCIAL BEING AND SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS
The Materialist Conception of Society and Its History
The Theory of Socio-Economic Formations
The Functions and Forms of Social Consciousness
Chapter III NATURE AND SOCIETY
On the Relationship of Nature and Society
The Environment. The Biological and Social in Social Development
Nature and Society in the Age of Scientific and Technological Progress
Chapter IV THE MAIN LAWS OF DIALECTICS
The Sources of Development
Forms of Development
The Direction of Development
Chapter V THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
The Dialectics of Knowing
The Forms and Methods of Scientific Cognition
Chapter VI MAN AND SOCIETY
A Last Chat with the Reader
