The Complexity in the Historical and Philosophical Tradition: the Experience of Comprehension

The phenomenon of complexity is a determining factor in the development of the modern world. The concept of "complexity" is commonly used, widely used in daily life, in the framework of a General scientific and philosophical tradition. When studying the literature dedicated to the phenomenon of difficulty, it seems that science in addressing questions about her status, trying to do without philosophy. Without reference to the history of philosophy, notions of complexity will be incomplete. Complexity as a philosophical category reveals to us the mode of existence of reality, the diversity of things and their possible States. However, the understanding of the complexity in the historical-philosophical tradition is not sufficiently developed. For a better understanding of this phenomenon is required to identify the forms of representation of the notions of complexity in the history of philosophy. Historical and philosophical tradition may help to clarify the ontological, epistemological, and axiological aspects of complexity, which is currently projected in such interdisciplinary areas as synergetics, the concept of global evolutionism, the "paradigm of complexity". Issues of complexity wider "paradigm of complexity" and should be studied not only by means of the system approach, synergetics, the philosophy of postmodernism, but also in the history of classical philosophy.