Brilo Y. Continuality and discontinuality of the historical process in posttoynbee's philosophy of history

The thesis reveals the main aspects of the synthesis of continuity and discontinuity in the study of the historical process within posttoynbee's paradigm of history. World history ? it is a single continual process with ups and downs in the life activity of local civilizations that constitute elements of the discrete of history is proved. Shown that in the evolution of the philosophical views of the historical process expedient to single out three periods: classical, nonclassical and postnonclassical. The need for the the synthesis of the achievements of the classical and nonclassical approaches into postnonclassical understanding of the historical process are discussed. The author's definition of "posttoynbee's philosophy" is proposed. The basic principles of the "posttoynbee's" philosophy of history are considered. The author's classification of philosophical models of the historical process and their evolution in the posttoynbee's philosophy of history are considered. Chronologically, the first form of understanding the historical process is a model of a unitary and continuum history. The second form of understanding the nature of history and its subjects is the plural-discrete model. It is based on rethinking of achievements of the classical period of rationality. The relationship of the two models can be described as follows: noclassics takes a position opposite classics. The last third model - integral ? is characterized by attempts to synthesize continuous and discrete.