The issue of historical functionality: the role of the subject in the context of the historical process’ objectivity

The article deals with the definition of the historical process, which is supposed to identify the concept of history and purposefulness. The problem of historical purposefulness was formed within the framework of German classical philosophy. Kant considered the concept of purposefulness based on the idea of teleological causality, due to the cognitive abilities of the subject. Hegel solved the problem of historical expediency in the mainstream of the concept of historicism. The content of historicism is the principle that removes the opposition of nature and freedom, ontologically presented in the form of a subject-substance, self-changing and self-developing. The result of rethinking this concept is the idea of historical activity (the subject). Human activity is a source that determines the main features of history as a special form of human existence in conditions of historical diversity.