HEGEL'S PERIODIZATION OF CULTURAL-HISTORICAL PROCESS
The article is devoted to Hegel's periodization of cultural and historical process. Hegel designates four beginnings of formation of spirit's self-consciousness in the process of its setting free from the form of the natural spontaneity. According to the four forms of spirit's self-consciousness (people's spirits) Hegel sets four basic world-wide and historical kingdoms. This real periodization of history is the basic scheme, used by him when analyzing World history. The main sign, characterizing certain type of society is the type of morality. Morality is the unity of generality, the laws of state and the subjective will. Depending on the person's development (the subjective beginning) and the form, which generality takes (the method of laws' justification), the forms of morality to which there correspond certain forms of state system also vary.