On consensus as a principle in socio-philosophical research

Abstract

The article considers consensus as a philosophical and analytical principle that focuses on mutual understanding and the necessary measure of agreement in social research and as a socio-cultural basis for the movement of the history of mankind and local civiliza­tions from the past to the present and possible future. In this regard, the author turns to the discussion in the horse of the twentieth century of the cognitive possibilities of the formational and civilizational approaches, the common vector of which was the liberation of social knowledge from ideological schemes and class-evaluation cliches that dominated it on the platform of the “five-member” formational paradigm. At the same time, during the discussion, as shown in the article, behind the civilizational methodol­ogy, the universal, that is, the cultural dimension of the historical process has been estab­lished. This initiated a surge of interest in consensus as a principle of socio-philosophical analysis. One of the first researchers who examined the consensus in a new methodologi­cal way was A.S. Panarin.