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In the article there are considered contradictory relations between the problems of humanistic education aimed at formation of the skills of complete personal self-determination, and how this self-determination is presented in the modern philosophical concepts which are being studied. The author asserts that for last decades the theme of humanistic self-determination of the person has appeared to be monopolized by the philosophical directions of the irrationalistic kind. In the article there are considered those features of irrationalistic self-consciousness (hermeticism, de-theorization, syncretism and so on) that obstruct fulfilling the tasks of self-determination of the person in the actual complexity of social processes. There is proposed a didactic scheme which could present alternative approaches to the specified problems.