PHILOSOPHY AS A PRACTICE OF MODERNITY

Abstract

The article considers philosophy as one of the necessary practices of subjectification, practices of epimeleia heautou (self-concern), turning an individual into a cultural-creative subject of permanent modernity. Being a personally passing through experience modernity is in close connection with philosophy, which serves as a technique of understanding, reflection, and self-constitution. Starting with the personal level philosophy comes to the political level, level of constructing new social existence from a new subject.