At all stages of human history, people have tried to understand the Universe. He tried to study the essence of existence, the laws of its movement. We see that the stages of the formation of mythological, religious and scientific worldviews did not take place in a specific chronological sequence, but in most cases, if we consider them in the context of historicity, they develop one on the other. . For example, despite the fact that it is the 21st century, some elements of the mythological worldview are preserved. At the same time, the religious worldview develops in a spiral, sometimes in a strong and sometimes in a relatively weak form, manifesting itself as a way of understanding the world. The scientific approach to understanding the world, which is an integral part of the philosophical worldview, has undergone great changes, and in some cases, the owners of mythological and religious worldviews use modern scientific achievements to prove their irrational conclusions. If we take into account that all these processes take place a thousand years after the creation of Yusuf Khos Hajib, then we can understand how relevant and innovative the scientist’s views on the phenomenon of enlightenment and knowledge were even for his time.

The article presents the results of sociological research to compare the opinions of ancient philosophers about freedom with different interpretations and modern views. In particular, in the process of comparison, their opinions were considered in addition to their relevance and different from each other, i.e. differentiation sides. Many studies show that it is not possible to define the concept of freedom in one way, its first interpretations go back to ancient times, and they can be taken as the basis of all points of view. In the research presented in this article, an attempt was made to justify these theses through a sociological survey. The results of the research are summarized and the issue of freedom is still relevant today.