The article analyzes the features of establishment Russian philosophy as an academic discipline at Leningrad-Petersburg University. In this regard, work deals with methodological principles and guidelines for courses in history by professors P. F. Nikandrov A. Galaktionov, ideological philosophical foundations their study guides, novelty approach to studying philosophy. It is emphasized that st...

Abstract Although Herder is critical of the Enlightenment, I show that his philosophy history commits him to claim age and culture shaped by Enlightenment in some way makes a distinctive contribution development humanity. Yet this cannot make superior earlier ones, for would violate Herder’s commitment principle each ought be accorded an equal status because value its full argue abstract thinki...