ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF "WORLDVIEW" PHENOMENON: METHODOLOGICAL ACCENTS

The article characterizes worldview phenomenon (Weltunsсhauung – German) from ontological and methodological points of view. Understanding essential nature of worldview as the integrity of “spiritual” (mentalcognitive) and “practical” of existence, the author explains specific character of its manifestation in the realities “human being”, “the present” and “education”. Turning to the origins of the formation of "worldview" concept and its evolution in the history of philosophical thought, the author analyses transformations and “changes” of the meanings of the worldview concept and the limited nature of the methodological “myth of worldview absence”; the author justifies the advantages of the phenomenological approach to the worldview concept. From the point of view of phenomenological method, the author fixes a new approach to substantiation of nature, origin mechanisms and interaction of variety of “worldview forms” and “functionals” in the ontologically determined worldview integrity; notes the historical contribution of Western European philosophical thought to clarifying the essence of the concept of "worldview". And focuses their attention on the methodological potential of the Russian culture, the Russian language and Russian philosophy in the study of existential meanings of the ontological integrity of the phenomenon of "worldview".