TO THE SOURCES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF PHILOSOPHY OF MULTICULTURALISM IN AN ANCIENT EPOCH

. The history of the philosophy of the formation of multiculturalism with its address to the most general issues of education is an integral part of any pedagogical concept of modernity. However, as an independent field of knowledge, multiculturalism is formed at the end of the XX - beginning of the XXI centuries. Multiculturalism multiplies the values that exist in the social space (in the country, in society). These values expand the possibilities of creativity and development. Multiculturalism provides an influx of borrowed cultural elements into its own social space. Thanks to this flow, regional cultural integration is being formed and the cultural region is changing. The social structure of space is developing due to the perception of patterns from abroad; the positive dynamics of the interaction of cultures is growing. Thanks to these processes, the number of cultural elements present in the system is increasing, and values are being improved and enriched. Education historians, studying the spiritual and practical experience of mankind in the field of education, turn their attention to the achievement of mankind in various historical periods i.e. from the time of the emergence of a high culture of human existence (Sumerians, Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, Ancient Greece, etc.), to the present, in which the issues of multicul - turalism are not fully disclosed, not quite clearly.