Home – Home – Jornals – "Philosophy of Education" 2009 number 4

An innovative model of the society can be stable and efficient only when education rests upon its basic element of development, that is, cultural values. Studying person's activity from the historical point of view contributes to working out a clear idea about cultural and historical prerequisites of the contemporary person formation. The article considers the world outlook positions of people, who lived in different historical periods and influenced their contemporaries and the descendants in the latest ages. The person here, as a matter of fact, is a subject of psychic activity who has certain influences upon his/her own mentality, and, indirectly, upon the outward things. His/her world outlook alters the ideology of many people, so the mankind, as a consequence, leaps forward. The questions of the gradual formation of person's subjectivity and its staying independent of the exterior determinative forces are also investigated.