Before the individual today is the necessary task to comprehend and estimate, first, the globalization process, secondly, to create a way to relate to the events social change. The school student or the student of higher edu-cation institution, thus, should expand the horizon of consciousness to global scales. Comprehension of global processes is possible only on the basis of a clear vision of the ideas relevant to policy, economy, ecology, where different types of spiritual and intellectual activity is embodied. From (...) this follows that humanitarian education should include all sphere of knowledge: from signs, terms, symbols and concepts to ideas, doctrines and theories. Philosophy not alone, but in unity with science art and religion, is capable to accomplish this task. However philosophy development in conditions of extending informa-tion space, in which abundance of information causes a fragmentariness of consciousness and complicates the process of self-identification of the per-sonality, can lead to loss of the reflective quality of philosophical knowledge. (shrink)