PHILOSOPHICAL DOXOGRAPHY AS THE PRACTICE OF MEMORY
The author puts forward and argues the thesis that philosophical doxography is a practice of memory that obeys certain laws and has characteristics that are quite amenable to identification and conceptualization. Despite the fact that it is often viewed as a spontaneous transfer of opinions, in everything opposite to philosophical historiography, this intellectual practice has its own theoretical level, as a rule, which is a methodological setting implicitly present in the work of a doxographer, which is not brought to the level of scientific methodology. At the same time, doxography is a form of social practice of memory, the function of which is to preserve and transmit intellectual complexes and elements of the worldview. With all the visible shortcomings, this doxography can acquire clear advantages in comparison with philosophical historiography, preserving the intellectual heritage in spite of the current ideas about the modernity and timeliness of ideas developed within the framework of this second one. In this respect, doxography, as befits the practice of memory, has a greater degree of freedom from ideologies and current conjuncture.