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Dialektyka historii i poznanie
The Dialectics of History and Cognition

Author(s): Włodzimierz Bonusiak
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Filozofów Krajów Słowiańskich

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is the analysis of the concept of 'history' and studies pertaining to history. The considerations are conducted against the background of disputes between well-shaped, theoretical standpoints in philosophical dispute. Special place in the analysis has a controversy between the followers of history conception as generalizing learning and history as individualizing studies, as well as, controversies existing between historicism and ahistoricism. The inquiry into the question of the validity of the idea of history end, the author asserts that historical thinking is a proper way of human existence.

  • Issue Year: 2005
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 21-29
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish