TO THE ISSUE OF THE SUBJECT MATTER OF PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION

Abstract

Disciplinary and scientific scope of the subject matter of philosophy of education must be sought in the essential understanding of the content of such independent sciences as philosophy and pedagogy. Based on the understanding of philosophy as a science of the most general laws of nature, society and thinking, and pedagogy as the science of education and training of humans, it can be assumed that the organic synthesis of these two areas of knowledge must be transformed into the knowledge of the most general principles of education and human learning. Given the applied nature of pedagogy as primarily a methodology controlling the formation of the person, the author suggests that the place of its theoretical ‘superstructure’ that justifies and proposes certain tasks in the form of «anthropological project» should be occupied by the philosophy of education.