DESCRIPTIVE-NARRATIVE METHOD AS SUBSTANTIAL BEGINNING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
The article considers one of the key methods of scientific knowledge, namely the descriptive-narrative method presented as a natural narrative and as a substantial beginning of scientific research of a humanitarian nature. Its essential characteristics are given, the methodological relationship of «essence and description», «description and evaluation», «necessity and freedom» is shown based on the classics of philosophical hermeneutics Wilhelm Dilthey, Edmund Husserl and Hans-Georg Gadamer, the study of a prominent representative of neo-Kantianism of the Baden school Heinrich Rickert, the ideas embedded in the «argumentation theory» of A.A. Ivin, the works of Academician V.S. Stepin about the specifics of scientific knowledge.