THE POSITIVIST DOCTRINE IN THE HISTORICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL NARRATIVE BY DMYTRO BAHALIY

The article analyzes the influence of positivist ideas on the historical and pedagogical research of the famous Ukrainian scientist, historian, educator, public figure and academician Dmytrо Bahaliy (1857 ? 1932) Among the most intellectual foundations in D. Bahaliys works about education, educational institutions and culture and education leaders, positivism, is defined as: 1) scientific approach, an escape of metaphysical compositions of idealistic and materialistic characters, but with the manifestation of religious, moral and idealistic connotations;2) biological terminology, organicism (seeking for organic links); 3) the source and factual principle of research, escape of subjective opinion as a way to achieve the objectivism; 4) focus on induction method and using inductive argumentation; 5) linear-phasic concept of the historical process and theory of progress; 6) multifactorial approach, with the emphasis on the importance of the cultural and educational factor, science, knowledge and ideas; 7) the ideology of liberalism with its educational and romantic and populist subjects.