The critical construction in sociology (from the lectures of academician A.S. Lappo-Danilevsky)

This article was prepared on the basis of the manuscript of academician Alexander Sergeyevich Lappo-Danilevsky (1863−1919) «On sociology», deposited in the fund of the scientist in the St. Petersburg branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences archive (Fond 113). The ideas of A. Lappo-Danilevsky in the neo-Kantian trend in sociology, in particular, the concept of «revival of natural law» of R. Stammler. While appreciating the social and philosophical doctrine of German neo-Kantian A.S. Lappo-Danilevsky criticized R. Stammler for not a complete carrying out «formal principle» in sociology, ignoring the problem of the «other self», etc. A.S. Lappo-Danilevsky believed that social science should not be based on an external rule, and on the concept of interaction. The article presents the fragments of the manuscript A.S. Lappo-Danilevsky.