Pavlenko K. The compensatory function of philosophy in modern society

In the present work, the content and properties of the compensatory function of philosophy are investigated. Its historical origins, further development and modern understanding. The relevance of this issue in the current state of the forced development of society and the social problems caused by it at the level of society, groups and personality is shown. It is determined that the compensatory function of philosophy can be understood as the process of accumulating knowledge about a person’s place in the world, reflection of philosophy itself about this place, understanding the therapeutic effect of philosophical judgments and applying all the possibilities in the practice of individual and social therapy. Its properties are also characterized: distracting, which helps a person to focus his attention and efforts on social development and interaction, without concentrating on internal destructive complexes of experiences; comforting, provides comfort when the subjective attitude to the environment does not correspond with objective facts of reality; promoting the spiritual harmony of person; switching attention from daily needs and daily anxieties to the preservation and development of cultural and social traditions; adaptation and reformation of each individual personality in order to improve the quality of life; reorientation of a person from unsolvable problems to solvable ones; a comforting property that changes the subject’s attitude to those things that he cannot change; constructive and harmonizing property.