«The school» as an object of reflection in the field of the history of philosophy

The article analyzes how the idea and the notion of the school is used in the discourse related to the history of philosophy, especially, in the work by Zakhar Kamenskii and Vilen Horskyi, the authors analyzed the issues how the notion of the school, as a current of ideas, should be applied to different phenomena in the history of philosophy. The article proves that the school in philosophy should be considered as a sociological phenomenon which takes different forms in different periods of the history of philosophy. Particularly, philosophical schools in classical antiquity led to the appearance of the notion of the school in philosophy. The next uses of this term are based on the idea of the school, especially in case of scientific schools in philosophy. By sociological approach, suggested in the article, which is based on the work of Pierre Hadot and Pierre Bourdieu, it is possible to outline one more “school” phenomenon, the conditioning of contemporary philosophy by its “scholastic situation”.