“THE ABSOLUTE” AS A SUBJECT OF SCIENTIFIC PHILOSOPHY (PART 1)

The purpose of this two-part study is to contribute to solving the problem of defining the subject of scientific philosophy. In the first part, widespread concepts of an absolutist nature are criticized on the basis of a non-ab-solutist or scientific-positivist (rational-critical) methodology. In such concepts, the subject of scientific philosophy is considered to be the “absolute” (“universal”, “the world as a whole”, etc.) as a genuine superconceptual being. It is shown that the absolutist approach raises many questions and doubts, which makes this problem relevant.