Historical anthropology as the modern philosophy of history: conceptual apparatus and methods

Authors

  • S. Aytov Dnipro National University of Railway Transport named after Academician V. Lazaryan, Ukraine, Dnipro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15421/272001

Abstract

This article investigates the complicated problem of historical anthropology as the modern philosophy of history conceptual apparatus genesis and essence and it research methods claster. The methodology of this work is based on the principles of complementarity, structurality, and dialogue. Studied problems include methods: philosophical hermeneutics, systemic-structural, interdisciplinary.

The conceptual apparatus of historical anthropology as the modern philosophy of history is understood as the intellectual foundation of cognitive structure, which creates a theoretical coordinate system for the analysis and research of the human dimension of historical development and conceptual achievements of the science of the past and the application of the received in the process of study mentioned problems behind the understanding current socio-cultural processes and their potential alternatives in the future.

The defining features of the methodological basis of the historicalanthropological horizon of modern philosophy of history are distinguished by the prevailing application of a number of general scientific, private scientific and metatheoretical methods. Thus, among the general scientific, the most influential for its development are methods of understanding, idealization and theoretical. The most effective for historical anthropology in the composition of particular scientific methods are the methods of historical, reconstruction and interdisciplinary.

The high cognitive status of the above general scientific and particular scientific methods is determined by the peculiarities of actual research tasks of historical anthropology, analysis of the mental and socio-cultural plane of the dynamics of the past.

The involvement of meta-theoretical methods is caused by the orientation of historical anthropology as the modern philosophy of history to comprehend the complex problems of theoretical studies of the deep psychological and cultural foundations of the sociohumanitarian horizon of the past and their influence on contemporary socio-cultural dynamics.

Among the perspectives for the continuation of studies in the problematic field of this work, we can point to te analysis of concepts and research methods that are important for the analysis of the mental-cultural plane of modern theories of the dynamics of globalization. Also important is the influence on the creation of a theoretical coordinate system for further studies in the intellectual universe of the historical-anthropological horizon of modern philosophy of history.

Published

2020-01-24