The course is intended for undergraduate students. The discipline studies philosophy as a historical type of worldview, its main characteristics, methods and principles. The theoretical course includes consideration of philosophy as a cultural phenomenon, the historical periods of its development - from antiquity to the present. The practical part of the course consists of a number of thematic sections corresponding to the subject sections of philosophy - ontology, epistemology, methodology, etc., and also examines individual philosophical doctrines - dialectics, metaphysics, social philosophy, philosophy of history, etc.