A Abstract of the report What is philosophy? is reconstructed and published according to a handwritten draft stored in the NIOR RGB (F. 718. K. 6. Ed. hr. 2. Shpet G.G. "What is philosophy" - outline of a lecture or report in three ver sions [up to 1922]. Draft autograph in ink and pencil). Three versions of the abstract of the report have survived (on the backs, in cursive writing by Shpet, the debate on the report is also written). The version presented here the third - is written in black ink (fol. 13- 17). It contains three layers of editing: adding and correcting with a simple pencil (in the margins), lilac pencil (correcting pagination), red (adding in the margins), and underlining in red and blue pencil (this way of underlining is peculiar to Shpet, who thus marked all his oral presentations; these stresses are not reproduced due to their multiplic ity). The text is given in the last edition with the introduction of corrections made by Shpet's hand using different pencils. Abbreviations and individual signs from Shpet's cursive writing are disclosed without special instructions. All notes belong to the publisher. Italicized words and phrases underlined by Shpet in black italic and in bold - underlined in black twice. The reconstructed text will be presented in the book "Institute of Scientific Philosophy. Beginning" (Moscow: ROSSPEN, in press).
