THE SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT OF PROGRESS AND OBJECTIVITY AND NIETZSCHE’S CRITICISM

Abstract

In spite of changes during almost twenty years of productive force and variety in all its details, in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) the moment and fact, the presence and the act within it are of great importance. He developed his ideas of a concordance of times past, present and future and perceives the historical events in the past and the historiographic occupation of people within them. From this philosophical point his perspective is basically different from the theoretical and methodological discussions of historical sciences in general and, in a special way, of contemporary reflections on  the theory and philosophy of history dominated by the so-called Historicism. The first of current essay deals with the concept of natural and exact sciences in the 19th century. In fact, they had a dominant position in the scientific system of the period. The second part deals with Nietzsche’s specific stance contrasting with the main contemporary trends.