It would seem that in recent years all the “forgotten” names of Russian philosophy have triumphantly or even quietly returned to the general public, taken their place in philosophical everyday life and completed a series of discoveries and resurrections in Russian intellectual history. Probably, this prosperity is illusory – after all, recognition was gained primarily by the works of representatives of religious and philosophical trends, convenient as a ready-made alternative to the emasculated official dialectic of the Marxist sense, but equally global in their claims to affirm their own picture of the world. At the same time, concepts that are devoid of grandiose claims to resolve the final mysteries of being, but concentrate attention on methodology and try not to go into stylized theology or revel in saving metaphors, which seem to eliminate the need to strictly adhere to philosophical means, are often overlooked. the approach of M. Rubinstein - a man of amazing destiny, philosopher and teacher, who invariably tried to limit the scope of research in proportion to the cognitive means of the discipline used. His theoretical and epistemological principles imply a rejection of the claim to achieve absolute knowledge within the framework of philosophical analysis based on the laws of logic and designed for the human scale of perception...