THE PROBLEM OF MAN IN PHILOSOPHY

Man as the main driving force of society is in the focus of attention of many disciplines, philosophy is no exception. The philosophical doctrine of man is called anthropology. She studies the nature, essence, meaning and value of human life, as well as the features and characteristics of human existence. The difference between the philosophical doctrine of man and other sciences is that it explores the most common problems of human existence, the specifics of human existence as a species. Such problems are the problems of anthroposociogenesis – the origin of man and human society, the meaning of human existence as a species and the meaning of life of an individual, freedom and the need for human actions, etc. At the turn of the XX-XXI centuries, the problem of man becomes the central philosophical knowledge. There is an increased attention to what is called in philosophy "existential problematics" to questions about the meaning of life and the value of human existence.