DOI 10.52172/2587-6945_2022_19_1_73
Abstract
Proceeding from the cultural myth that in order to ensure the cultural sovereignty of Russia it is necessary to rely on truthful knowledge about the past, we turn to the study of historical science as the most important source of such knowledge. In our opinion, the relevance of the logical and philosophical understanding of history for its scientific character cannot be doubted. The fact is that most of the modern international and interethnic conflicts (including paramilitary ones) "involve", very often, the "historical component". In this regard, the question arises as to what extent one can trust the research of historians? Is history able to provide guaranteed true scientific knowledge about the past? In general, is history a science? That is why the purpose of our article is a logical and philosophical analysis of history in order to find out whether it is really a science. Traditional logical and philosophical methods have become the methodology of our research: analysis, synthesis, elements of deduction, the method of ascension from the abstract to the concrete, as well as the method of the unity of the historical and the logical. The scientific novelty of this article is that the author proves the fact that history is not a science from a logical and philosophical position.
Keywords
History, historical science, attributes of science, subject of science, object of science, subject of scientific research.