The true prerequisites for the origin of philosophy

This article reveals the true preconditions for the emergence of philosophy as a sociocultural phenomenon. A critical analysis of the philosophical views of Plato and Aristotle on the genesis of the provocation of the subject to the process of abstract reflection - philosophizing, undermines the foundation of the prevailing speculative ideas, explicating the act of surprise as a generator of continuous questioning. The direct relationship of philosophy with the state of cognitive uncertainty - doubt, which causes the transformation of confusion into an impulse of conscious deconstruction, is argued. As a result of the study, the following conclusion is made: philosophy owes its emergence, development and immortality to a specific mental state that determined its incomprehensible predestination. Philosophy is the primary product of doubt.