What philosophy? Is she science? Why is she needed? What role does play lives of man and societies? Is it possible without her to do? When and where did philosophy appear? What questions are philosophical? How to understand statements that philosophy helps a man to be a man, to be by a soba, to be happy and interesting to live in the world? Why tsar's minister of the folk inlightening a prince П. А. Ширинский-Шихматов said a century in XIX, that is "Benefit from philosophy doubtful, and harm is obvious"? About all of it, and also - about basic philosophical concepts, questions, problems, ideas and manoeuvres, created by different thinkers in different epochs, you know, reading this book. An author many years teaching philosophy students and schoolchildren tried to do offered to your attention material simple and clear, and on possibility - interesting and enthralling.Book addressed by all studying philosophy in some educational establishments, to the teachers - as an exchange by pedagogical experience and all, interested in such ancient at the same time the always young area of spiritual culture of humanity as philosophy.2th edition processed and complementedIn the format of a4.pdf is stored publishing layout.