Lectures on ancient philosophy. Essay on modern European philosophy. Mamardashvili M.

Merab Konstantinovich Mamardashvili (1930–1990) is one of the most significant thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century. The present publication includes two lectures given by M.K. Mamardashvili to students of VGIK. In lectures on ancient philosophy (1980) in the focus of attention, the problem of being arising in the space of ancient Greek thought. In the thoughts of Greek philosophers, the author traces the fundamental principles that lie in the foundations of ancient, and subsequently the European ideal of thinking and understanding of the world and man. Lectures on modern European philosophy (1978–1979) are devoted to the main through ideas, which are the rods of philosophical culture of the twentieth century. Turning to the works of Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Sartra and others, M.K. Mamardashvili reveals ideas that permeate all directions, are their crystallizations, thereby creating some unity of the style of modern philosophical thought. < /p>