THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PHILOSOPHIC CONSULTING: COMPARATIVE APPROACH

Abstract

The problem of the research is a set of issues connected with cultural and historical, theoreticalmethodological and institutional aspects of rising and developing of such a new direction in modern philosophy as philosophic practice (philosophic consulting). The research is devoted to working out the theory for summarizing, systematizing and interpreting a large amount of empiric material, gathered for the thirty-year history of this philosophic direction existence. On the basis of this theory there will appear a possibility of historic-philosophic view of the direction. The key condition for the research is the use of comparative approach setting strict criteria for comparative analysis of philosophic conceptions, basic notions, forms and ways of philosophizing used in philosophic practice. Our research gives the opportunity to define the basic principles, build up typology of ideas, approaches, schools and sects of philosophic practice. It is the first complex study aimed at bringing to light the role and place of philosophic practice in modern culture, which may become the starting point for new inter-disciplinary philosophic researches in this sphere.