Istorijos samprata Prancūzų personalizmo filosofijoje
The Concept of History in the Philosophy of French Personalism

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the theoretical and historical origins of the philosophy of history of French personalism. It argues that the personalist concept of history came into being as a theoretical response to the overwhelming crisis of Western capitalist civilisation and Christianity, which reached its culmination during the Thirties of the last century. The unprecedented and unexpected events that were taking place in France and many other European countries made the traditional Christian vision of history outdated and incapable of explaining in an adequate way the dramatic changes in Western societies. The leading figures of the French personalist movement sought to establish a new conceptual framework allowing an exploration of the deepest roots of the civilisational and religious crisis and giving the opportunity to make more reliable predictions about the future prospects of modern civilisation. They were the first among Catholic thinkers to give up the speculative approach to history and to analyse it on the basis of concrete historical experience.

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