The metatheoretical interpretation methodology of history of philosophy

The article considers the methodological aspects of metatheoretical cognition of philosophy’s history. The idea of this methodology consists in making the premise building-up a non-contradictory construction of the whole historical and philosophical processes including not only different but also opposite directions ofphilosophy. On the basis of the relation of the metalevel to the theoretical material the article distinguishes and analyzes the following types of meta-theoretic methods: the critical, the modeling and the manifesting methods.