This issue opens a thematic series under the general title "Philosophical Thought of Continents." The collection "Man as a Philosophical Problem: East - West" is devoted to aspects of the human problem new to Russian philosophical science in the countries of Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America, an analysis of a number of issues in the theory of modern humanism. For the first time, translations of authors participating in this collection of philosophical texts from ancient Chinese, ancient Greek and Spanish are published in the appendix. For teachers and researchers.