The Science of Philosophy and the Problem of Intellectual Sovereignty of Modern Russia

This article examines the most significant features of the contemporary intellectual state of the world, the dominant modes of thought today, and the principles for the formation of a universal encyclopedic system of philosophy – the «Science of Philosophy.» It analyzes the contradictory process of philosophical thought, from Kant and Hegel to conceptually exhausted and therefore «rapidly completed,» «newest,» or so-called «postclassical» philosophical teachings.
The article reveals the logical basis for this contradiction. It develops the idea that the transition of philosophy from its fi nite historical forms to the universal and actually infinite logical certainty of the Science of Philosophy is possible and necessary for Russia, which has continued the tradition of absolute science as a universal dialectic of thought and being. According to the authors, a reasonable way to assimilate the classical tradition of philosophical knowledge and education is to return philosophy to the status of the thinking foundation of positive science and to create a unifi ed encyclopedia of scientific and philosophical knowledge, taking into account modern realities, systematically uniting the laws of logical, natural and
spiritual existence.