The Anthropological Dimension of the Philosophy of Cosmocentrism of Antiquity

The paper examines the content of the problem of man in ancient philosophy, in which anthropocentrism can be discerned long before the Renaissance. The problem of man forms an important part of reflections at all stages of cultural and historical development. In the philosophy of Antiquity, man and the Cosmos were never radically opposed. On the contrary, they always correlated with each other, because the Cosmos was under-stood as animate and human-like. At the same time, whatever the greatness of man, he always fit into the hori-zon of the cosmocentric worldview and did not surpass the Cosmos. The focus of Antiquity was the natural-cosmic life, in which he appeared exclusively as a natural being. In order to realize his potencies on the basis of love and creativity, from a means of achieving any natural-cosmic goals, man had to become a comprehen-sive and harmonious personality, first of all, in social life.