Philosophical Traditions Today

Professor lovchuk's monograph describes the current trends in apprehension and criticalinterpretation of scientific, progressive and humanist traditions of world philosophy and shows that
Marxist-Leninist philosophy evolves and consolidates its own, new traditions for the dialectical-materialist approach to the development of nature, society, and thought.
The author considers the major landmarks of the history of Marxist philosophy, describing its integrityand continuity at different stages of the history of Marxism and singling out the distinctive features of theLeninist stage in Marxist philosophy The book sheds light on the major philosophical problemselaborated jointly by Soviet and other Marxists concerning their stand on the problems of social progressin the current epoch and how they solve the problem of man; their views on the subject, method, structureand functions of philosophy and the application of the method of materialist dialectics to the latestmethods of science, such as systems analysis, cybernetic methods, model-building, and so on. Thethe author shows that important and valuable as they are, these particular methods cannot be used asuniversal philosophical methods of cognition, since they cannot replace the method of materialistdialectics which has proved itself in science and in revolutionary practice.