Philosophy as a interrogating about existing (to the question of self-determination of philosophy)

The paper focuses on the consideration of the self-determination of philosophy. Its purpose is to identify and analyze the status of worldview transcending, which makes it possible to question a person about existing. In philosophy, unlike science, the problem field is not limited to the world immanent for man, but extends to all being, projecting itself beyond it. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the substantiation of metaphysical interrogation as a fundamental definition of philosophy, complementing existing definitions in Russian literature. It is emphasized that philosophy, in essence, is, firstly, a worldview questioning, the result of which is self-creation of a person and his awareness of his place in the world; secondly, metaphysical interrogation aimed at understanding the world as a whole, and not at studying the structure of specific areas of the universe; thirdly, the transcending questioning, in the course of which the expansion of the boundaries of cognition, the complication of human experience, the development of the philosophical worldview itself takes place. The author comes to the conclusion that the most important task of philosophy is to question existing, being as itself, which should be reflected in its self-determination. In its content, philosophizing is a worldview transcending, a metaphysical questioning of a person about the world as a whole and to himself.