The main defect of idealistic historical view is that it only examines the ideological motivation of people's activities, but does not further study the material motivation and economic root behind the ideological motivation. Therefore, based on the premise that social consciousness determines social existence, it regards social history as the history of spiritual development, which fundamentally denies the objective laws of social history and the decisive role of the people in the development of social history.
Historical idealism is an unscientific view of history about the development of human society. It holds that social consciousness determines social existence and human ideological motivation is the fundamental reason for social development. It denies the objective law of social development, also known as historical idealism, which is opposite to historical materialism.
Idealism is one of the two basic schools of philosophy, which holds that spirit is the origin of the world, the world is the product or expression of spirit, and spirit determines matter; People's knowledge is innate or produced in their own minds; There are two basic forms: subjective idealism and objective idealism.
The essence of historical idealism;
Historical idealism replaces the real connection of social history with objective and real connection, which is essentially a presentation of the true face of social history and plays a role in promoting the development of human understanding and truth. However, as a certain development stage in the process of human exploring the historical essence of society, its existence has its historical reasons and inevitability.
Historical idealism has accumulated some ideological materials for human understanding of society in the long-term evolution process; The questions it raises from the opposite side also prompt people to think deeply; In the theoretical system of historical idealist philosophers and thinkers, there are also valuable historical dialectics, thoughts and some historical materialism factors or buds. All these have prepared for the emergence of the scientific view of history.