INTEGRATIVNA ULOGA DUHOVNIH ZNANOSTI
THE INTEGRATIVE ROLE OF SPIRITUAL SCIENCES

Summary/Abstract: Commencing with the possibility of systematization of the entire human knowledge and the existing classification of science, the author points out the historical and systematical role of spiritual sciences in it, as a common name for the contemporary fields of social and humanistic sciences. They are spiritual in as much as they explore by means of their own method the human spirit and its diverse forms of actualization in the world, from art and law to ethics and history, religion and philosophy. The initial point of spiritual sciences is motivation and purposefulness of human action and they play an integrative role not only by joining humanistic and social sciences but also all sciences in general as an expression of the spirit of a certain age. In spite of this spiritual unity of the human historical world, the difference between natural sciences as sciences of explanation and spiritual sciences as sciences of understanding has become customary. Therefore, according to the most recent research, especially in the field of German language, spiritual sciences include social and humanistic sciences from linguistics and philology, through economics, sociology, political science, history, law and psychology to communication sciences, theology and philosophy, Le. all the sciences which develop their own methodical and scientific quality as a mode of individualizing, describing and understanding the individual event and concrete action, with regard to the difference in the methods of generalization and explanation of natural and technical sciences.

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