A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF USING THE PAST TO STUDY THE MODERNITY OF DOING BUSINESS
Abstract
The processes of globalization today are the most powerful transformation of the world, therefore, understanding the importance and consequences of this process is a difficult but necessary task for the modern scientific community. Humanity, despite all fears and doubts about being considered new, must constantly adapt and respond to the challenges of globalization processes, as well as realize and use all the laws of globalization processes to its advantage, determines its strength and vectorial action. If these processes are ignored, people face the risk of living and developing harmoniously, as well as creating a habitable environment for future generations. Awareness of the main opportunities and consequences that arise as a result of globalization processes gives a person a modality to use these opportunities, as well as to influence possible consequences, potentiating or minimizing them, depending on the kind of consequences. Taking this into account, today it is especially important to pay attention to the historical origins of these processes in order to fully understand modern processes. The aim of the article is to study the historical perspective in the context of the use of past experience for the study and understanding of the present. The object of the research is the characteristic features and features of the historical past in the context of their use for the study of the present. The following methods were used in the article: general scientific methods (formal-logical, systemic, structural-functional, concrete-historical) logical methods of theoretical analysis (analysis, synthesis, generalization, comparison, abstraction, analogy), technical analysis, explanations. The results of the study indicate that each separate stage of human development is characterized by a unique civilizational structure, which was formed after the existence of a complex and long transitional period. It was found that from a historical perspective, transitional periods represent breaks in the historical process, functioning as workshops for destructive creativity, where creativity is an instrument of destruction, and destruction is a prerequisite for creativity and reconstruction. It was found that the historical path of each civilization ends with a certain transitional period, is an indicator of the end of one historical period and the beginning of another, and each period has its own logical and dynamic characteristics and is relevant only for the society of a particular period of time.
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