Журнал Сибирского федерального университета
Journal of Siberian Federal University
Гуманитарные науки
Humanities & Social Sciences
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академик РАН Е.А. Ваганов
академик РАН И.И. Гительзон
академик РАН А.Г. Дегерменджи
академик РАН В.Ф. Шабанов
чл.-корр. РАН, д-р физ.-мат. наук
В.Л. Миронов
чл.-корр. РАН, д-р техн. наук
Г.Л. Пашков
чл.-корр. РАН, д-р физ.-мат. наук
В.В. Шайдуров
чл.-корр. РАН, д-р физ.-мат. наук
В.В. Зуев
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Eugene A. Vaganov
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Vasily F. Shabanov
Andrey G. Degermendzhy
Valery L. Mironov
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Vladimir V. Shaidurov
Vladimir V. Zuev
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Mikhail I. Gladyshev
Founding Editor
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Natalia P. Koptseva
CONTENTS / СОДЕРЖАНИЕ
Gennadiy V. Boldyguin
On the Meaning of History
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Vladimir I. Zhukovsky and Daniil V. Pivovarov
Istina-Truth and Pravda-Truth: Alienating and Assimilating
Knowledge
– 334 –
Yekaterina A. Batiuta,
Aleksandr V. Pertsev and Yekaterina S. Cherepanova
Back to Kant? (on the topicality of the ideas of philosophical
anthropology)
– 346 –
Roman K. Omelchuk
Religious and Political Philosophy of the Social Education in
Ancient China
– 357 –
Petr L. Popov
On Significance of Religion Factors in Forming Civilization
Identities in Northeast Asia, West Asia and Europe
– 369 –
Yury F. Abramov,
Pavel V. Ushakov and Sergey V. Khomuttsov
The Utmost Reality in Philosophy, Mysticism and Informology:
the Knowledge-Studying Method
– 375 –
Elena V. Orel and Maria V. Semenova
Renaissance and European Classical Painting as Two Types of
Artistic Creativity
– 394 –
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Consulting Editors
for Humanities & Social Sciences:
Gershon M. Breslavs
Sergey V. Deviatkin
Sergey A. Drobyshevsky
Sergey M. Geraschenko
Oleg M. Gotlib
Boris I. Khasan
Galina A. Kopnina
Natalia V. Kovtun
Aleksandr A. Kronik
Pavel V. Mandryka
Boris V. Markov
Valentin G. Nemirovsky
Daniel V. Pivovarov
Andrey V. Smirnov
Viktor I. Suslov
Evgeniya V. Zander
Igor S. Pyzhev
Vladimir I. Suprun
Liudmila V. Kulikova
Olga G. Smolyaninova
Nicolai N. Petro
Dr. Suneel Kumar
Nadezhda K. Barsukova
Some Aspects of the Idea of God in the World Religions:
an Attempt to Make a Comparative Analysis
– 399 –
Oleg I. Kulagin
Workers in Forests: Social Identity and Labour Motivation in
Timber Industry of Karelia in 1917-1928
– 406 –
Alexei V. Nesteruk
A œParticipatory UniverseB of J. A. Wheeler as an Intentional
Correlate of Embodied Subjects and an Example of Purposiveness
in Physics
– 415 –
Alexandr G. Kislov and Ol’ga V. Shmurygina
Forthcoming Plans for Institutional Transformation of Russian
Higher Education
– 438 –
Oksana A. Gavriliuk and Anastasiya V. Lakhno
Professional Autonomy of a University Teacher in the USA and
Russia: Freedom from Control or Freedom for Development?
– 455 –
Свидетельство о регистрации СМИ
ПИ № ФС77-28-723 от 29.06.2007 г.
Серия включена в «Перечень ведущих
рецензируемых научных журналов
и изданий, в которых должны
быть опубликованы основные научные
результаты диссертации на
соискание ученой степени доктора и
кандидата наук» (редакция 2010 г.)
Ludmila A. Ivanova and Olga. M. Verbitskaya
Media Education in Foreign Languages Teaching $ Tribute to
Fashion or Requirement of the Time?
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Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences 3 (2013 6) 325-333
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УДК 930.1
On the Meaning of History
Gennadiy V. Boldyguin*
University for Humanities
19 Student Str., Ekaterinburg, 620049 Russia
Received 11.03.2013, received in revised form 18.03.2013, accepted 25.03.2013
The article is devoted to historical knowledge that the author, by analogy with “the meaning of life”
calls “the meaning of history”. This aim cannot be the idea of history as a tool useful for unhistorical
purposes. The meaning of history is in establishing the truth and in participation in the intellectual
process, called “the court of history”.
Keywords: the meaning of history, the court of history, the necessity and inevitability, historical
reconstruction, purpose, motive.
The problem of the meaning of history is
one of the most complex issues of the European
science tradition. Its foundation dates back from
the cult of truth which was formed in the Ancient
Hellas, and which was supposed to be reached
and proved
regardless
of
whether genuine
knowledge complied to the beliefs of the majority
or it contradicted them, whether it was pleasant
to an individual, people or the mankind or this
knowledge was bitter and disgusting, whether it
was useful or useless.
Such a cult was not familiar to the great
ancient oriental civilizations that were deprived
of
humiliating (as it
was regarded
then)
requirement for a guru, a teacher, a sensei to
prove to everybody and especially to the gosling
pupils the verity of his statements. Even in the
second half of the 19th
century the cult of truth
for truth sake was unknown to the Chinese, who
decided to deprive the translation of the Euclidian
geometry schoolbook into Chinese of all the
proofs, considering them practically useless, as
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* Corresponding author E-mail address: bgv47@mail.ru
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problems could be solved with the knowledge of
theorems without the knowledge of their proving.
Apparently,
they
considered
mathematical
proving as a certain intellectual decoration, a
certain European ceremony.
Herodotus, who came from Hellenic world,
was not a zealous adept of the cult of truth,
which become very popular in Attic and Italic
periods of his life, though he was critical about
authenticity of the certain sources of his spoken
stories that were published later by his followers.
Those published stories were called History, and
this title was given either by himself or by his
followers. Properly speaking, Herodotus was not
a historian. Hellenes called the genre of his stories
logography – word description of geographic,
ethnographic and historical data provided by
travelers who came back home. Many centuries
after, retired soldiers from Suvorov’s army used
similar stories to broaden the mind of their fellow
villagers. The fi rst historian in today’s meaning
of this word was Thucydides, and his History of
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