THE PURPOSE OF LIFE AND PROFESSIONAL APTITUDE IN THE INTERPRETATION OF NIKOLAI KAREEV

Abstract

Purpose and methods. This article suggests a common analysis of the views and research of a famous Russian historian, philosopher, sociologist, lecturer, statesman and public figure Nikolai Kareev (1850-1931) in terms of self-development, purpose of life and professional aptitude. His works devoted to Russian students were very popular in Russia and some other countries of Western Europe at the end of XIXth and the beginning of XXth century. He paid great attention to the problems of students’ comprehensive and professional education, self-education and self-development. His ideas about the value and purpose of life, vocational attitude and professional aptitude are topical nowadays in aspects of constant social and individual perfection and self-management. Results. The modern situation requires new approaches to studying Kareev’s many-sided scientific heritage, especially in points of the history of economic studies, the history of socio-economic processes in Russia and in the countries of Western Europe, in the point of self-development and self-management dealing with the economic, political, historical and cultural processes in Russia at the end of XIXth and the beginning of XXth century. These problems of N. Kareeev’s scientific heritage have not been thoroughly studied yet.