Pavlova O. Imagination as the philosophic-anthropological concept

The thesis is dedicated to the research of anthropological content of the concept "imagination". It is defined as the spontaneous ability of man which unite experience of his existence in the total horizons of culture. It is determined that integral anthropological approach to defending of the concept "imagination" is not amount gnosiological modality of the experience of consciousness. It is substantiated the understanding imagination as ability of man which get over the indifferent model of human abilities. It's model dominated in classical rationalism. The understanding of the nature of the synthetic ability allow to raise status of the philosophic anthropology to the transcendental type of philosophy. In the thesis is demonstrated that imagination go out limitation of mind and created own a priori area. It is area of culture with a priori principle of expediency. The game is the image of a priori area of culture in the empirical world.