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  1. Philosophy of history

    Philosophy of history is the philosophical study of history and its discipline. The term was coined by the French philosopher Voltaire. In contemporary philosophy a distinction has developed between the speculative philosophy of history and the critical philosophy of history, now referred to as analytic. The split between these approaches may be approximately compared, by analogy and on the strength of regional and academic influences, to the schism in commitments between analytic and continental philosophy wherein the analytic approach is pragmatic and the speculative approach attends more closely to a metaphysics of determining forces like language or the phenomenology of perception at the level of background assumptions. At the level of practice, the analytic approach questions the meaning and purpose of the historical process whereas the speculative approach studies the foundations and implications of history and the historical method. Wikipedia

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  2. plato.stanford.edu

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    https://plato.stanford.edu › entries › history

    The concept of history plays a fundamental role in human thought. It invokes notions of human agency, change, the role of material circumstances in human affairs, and the putative meaning of historical events. It raises the possibility of "learning from history." ... W. H. Walsh's Philosophy of History (Walsh 1960 [1951]), first published ...
    • Berlin, Isaiah

      The practice of history thus requires gaining knowledge of what consciousness was like for other persons, in situations other than our own, through an 'imaginative projection of ourselves into the past' in order to 'capture concepts and categories that differ from those of the investigator by means of concepts and categories that cannot ...

    • Ricoeur, Paul

      All these threads in Ricoeur's philosophy come together in Ricoeur's last big book (Memory, History, Forgetting, 2004) pointing to the final revised lectures on recognition. This three part work first takes up the question of memory and recollection in response to questions about uses and abuses of memory in contemporary society.

    • Hempel, Carl

      The philosophy of science, therefore, cannot be displaced by history or by sociology. Not least among the important lessons of Hempel's enduring legacy is the realization that the standards of science cannot be derived from mere descriptions of its practice alone but require rational justification in the form of explications satisfying the ...

    • Hermeneutics

      Hermeneutics is the study of interpretation. Hermeneutics plays a role in a number of disciplines whose subject matter demands interpretative approaches, characteristically, because the disciplinary subject matter concerns the meaning of human intentions, beliefs, and actions, or the meaning of human experience as it is preserved in the arts and literature, historical testimony, and other ...

    • Dilthey, Wilhelm

      Concepts that posit the soul of a people "are no more usable in history than is the concept of life-force in physiology" (1883/SW.I, 92). Suspicion of those who posit overriding self-sufficient entities like nations and peoples led Dilthey to distance himself from the nationalism of his contemporary Heinrich von Treitschke and to ally ...

    • Hegel

      1. Life, Work, and Influence. Born in 1770 in Stuttgart, Hegel spent the years 1788-1793 as a student in nearby Tübingen, studying first philosophy, and then theology, and forming friendships with fellow students, the future great romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) and Friedrich von Schelling (1775-1854), who, like Hegel, would become one of the major figures of the German ...

  3. britannica.com

    philosophy of history, the study either of the historical process and its development or of the methods used by historians to understand their material.. The term history may be employed in two quite different senses: it may mean (1) the events and actions that together make up the human past, or (2) the accounts given of that past and the modes of investigation whereby they are arrived at or ...
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  5. en.wikipedia.org

    Philosophy of history is the philosophical study of history and its discipline. [1] ... For his part, Christopher Lloyd puts forward four "general concepts of causation" used in history: the "metaphysical idealist concept, which asserts that the phenomena of the universe are products of or emanations from an omnipotent being or such final cause
  6. plato.stanford.edu

    The concept of history plays a fundamental role in human thought. It invokes notions of human agency, change, the role of material circumstances in human affairs, and the putative meaning of historical events. ... Philosophy of history, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. --- (ed.), 1966. Philosophical analysis and history (Sources in ...
  7. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    https://iep.utm.edu › history

    Philosophy of History. History is the study of the past in all its forms. Philosophy of history examines the theoretical foundations of the practice, application, and social consequences of history and historiography. ... Whereas his 18th century thinkers form abstract concepts and universal propositions, to the primitive individual images and ...
  8. encyclopedia.com

    PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY The term "philosophy of history" probably covers a larger variety of endeavors than similar terms such as "philosophy of law" or "philosophy of science." It is hard to bring under one definition the many philosophical questions and responses that are concerned with history. One reason for this, which has long been acknowledged, is that the English term "history," like its ...
  9. newworldencyclopedia.org

    Philosophy of history or historiosophy is an area of philosophy concerning the eventual significance of human history.It examines the origin, goal, pattern, unit, determining factors for the process, and the overall nature of history. Furthermore, it speculates as to a possible teleological end to its development—that is, it asks if there is a design, purpose, directive principle, or ...
  10. encyclopedia.pub

    In keeping with philosophy of history, it is clear that their philosophy of value imposed upon their process of writing history—philosophy influenced method and hence product. Herodotus, a fifth-century BCE contemporary of Socrates, broke from the Homeric tradition of passing narrative from generation to generation in his work "Investigations ...
  11. oxfordreference.com

    Jan 5, 2025This essentially speculative philosophy of history is given an extra Kantian twist in Fichte, in whom the association of temporal succession with logical implication introduces the idea that concepts themselves are the dynamic engine of historical change. The idea is only readily intelligible within the framework of absolute idealism, in which ...
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