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The Sciences of Nature and the Human Sciences

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of interrelation between two basic directions of development of scientific knowledge: natural sciences and the humanities. The author shows that sciences of the first type are focused on research of vital circumstances while sciences of the second type are focused more on revealing of sense and the purpose of human life. The special receptions and methods, corresponding the concentration of attention of researchers on problems real or due were formed in the light of problems to be solved in the both types of sciences. During the human history the leading position of sciences of the first or second type periodically changed depending on depending on what has focused the attention of researchers.

About the Author

Boris Lipsky
Saint Petersburg State University
Russian Federation


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For citations:


Lipsky B. The Sciences of Nature and the Human Sciences. Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences. 2015;(7):98-108. (In Russ.)



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