Logic. Logicians. Fate

The article considers peculiarities of communicative processes, social and personal, in the fate of two generations of logics of Moscow University: the sixties and seventies. It is shown that in the general system movement of the sixties in our country its special place was occupied by the logic and methodology of science. The Logicians-Sixties were in fact fighting for the right to exist in the country of classical formal logic and at the same time for the right to correspond to the current level of development of logic. The influence of the Sixties on the formation of intellectual biographies of logicians-seventies, who engaged in scientific and theoretical research and teaching of three externally different directions of logic, formed in the seventies in the West: critical thinking, informal logic, argumentation theory. It is shown that a small university group of friends-logicians, as it were, divided in their research into these three areas of development of logic, at the same time being present, to one degree or another, in each of them. It presents a special system of human relations that developed between the sixties and the seventies, between teachers and students and within each of the subgroups in the general atmosphere of the philosophical faculty of Moscow State University in the 70s.