Origin and subject of historical consciousness and knowledge
When it comes to the question of the emergence of history, one can proceed from some people ontological view that the actual history of mankind begins with the anthropomorphism from which vision can be made a number of gonaeological conclusions. The first of these conclusions is that history as consciousness and knowledge arises with the emergence of self-consciousness in man, which is nothing but delimitation from nature and the natural awareness of the particular place he occupies in the world around him.
When this happens, the so-called subject-object relationship. Moreover, it is only then that it becomes possible for one to look at himself as a separate object of study and to direct his efforts to his own knowledge and the knowledge of his peers. It is only from that moment that the interest in human unification within and within which man himself lives becomes possible. The "separation" of man from nature or the emergence of self-consciousness is far from a sufficient condition for the emergence of historical consciousness and self-knowledge. We must immediately say, on this occasion, Samuel Noah Kramer, that in Sumer there was no historiography in the general sense of this word. The Sumerians viewed the phenomena of history as something completely finished and ready, not as a consequence of the developing relationships of man with the environment.
They believed that their country with its flourishing cities and towns had been of age as they knew it, ie from that moment when the gods, after creating the universe, decided to create Sumer. At this point, Georgi Fydarovich Alexandrov examines the history of ancient Babylon. The Babylonians wrote, especially at 3 and 2 thousand BC. was a foreign thought about the historical development of society. As a rule, in their myths, legends, and stories the emergence of man and society was depicted as a sudden occurrence of all that the Babylonians and their ancestors had around them. If self-awareness is not a sufficient condition for the emergence of the historical sense of the world, of social life, the question arises as to which factors and the reasons for their appearance and deployment.
In their attempt to answer this question, some people raises the hypothesis of historical interest. According to him, this interest is at the core of the emergence of historical self-consciousness. For the first time, we find him / her interest / in ancient Greece in the 6th and 5th centuries BC. whose most vivid confirmation is the famous Herodotus / father of history /