Classics and Postmodern: the Paradox of the Double

The article compares classical and postmodern philosophy from the point of view of image philosophy and identifies the essence of the negative influence of postmodern philosophy on philosophy in general. It is shown that there are two equally probable alternatives for man and humanity. The first is that the paradox generated by postmodernity destroys science and philosophy (the cause), so they, along with humanity, inevitably face the "death of philosophy" (and the consequence). The second is that knowledge will eventually help to overcome the paradox, the paradox, transcendence will not destroy reason, systematic and logical thinking, philosophy and science. Only knowledge and the process of learning it give up hope. Although the independent existence of philosophy, religion, science, and art, their non-co-existence may, on the contrary, reinforce the paradox. In this regard, the paradox cannot be overcome without the meeting of the Self and the Other. Based on the philosophy of the image, it is argued that classical philosophy is inherently energetic because it is associated with ideas and meanings, and postmodernism is simulative because it is associated with the absence of meaning and the absence of (first)for starters, therefore, every thing in postmodernity is a simulacrum. Each thing, viewed simultaneously from the point of view of classics and postmodernism, is an energy and a simulacrum, which cannot be from an objective point of view. Based on this, it is concluded that the state of any thing in which it is both energy and a simulacrum is an indicator of a deep crisis of a person, society, culture, science and philosophy. At the same time, it is proved that the "double’s paradox" is synonymous with the «fourth-order Baudrillard» simulacrum, but it is not a concept formulated in postmodern philosophy.