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  2. Philosophy of history - Wikipedia

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    Philosophy of history is the philosophical study of history and its discipline. [1] The term was coined by the French philosopher Voltaire. [2] In contemporary philosophy a distinction has developed between the speculative philosophy of history and the critical philosophy of history, now referred to as analytic. [3][4][5][6][7] The split ...

  3. Historical materialism - Wikipedia

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    Historical materialism is Karl Marx 's theory of history. Marx located historical change in the rise of class societies and the way humans labor together to make their livelihoods. [1] Karl Marx stated that technological development can change the modes of production over time. This change in the mode of production inevitably encourages changes ...

  4. Karl Marx's Theory of History - Wikipedia

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    369. ISBN. 978-0-691-07175-6. Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence is a 1978 book by the philosopher G. A. Cohen, [1] the culmination of his attempts to reformulate Karl Marx 's doctrines of alienation, exploitation, and historical materialism. [2] Cohen, who interprets Marxism as a scientific theory of history, [3] applies the techniques ...

  5. Historical determinism - Wikipedia

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    Historical determinism is the belief that events in history are entirely determined or constrained by various prior forces and, therefore, in a certain sense, inevitable. It is the philosophical view of determinism applied to the process or direction by which history unfolds. Historical determinism places the cause of the event behind it.

  6. Theses on the Philosophy of History - Wikipedia

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    Über den Begriff der Geschichte (2010 edition, Suhrkamp) " Theses on the Philosophy of History " or " On the Concept of History " (German: Über den Begriff der Geschichte) is an essay written in early 1940 by German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin. It is one of Benjamin's best-known, and most controversial works.

  7. History - Wikipedia

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    History (derived from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía) 'inquiry; knowledge acquired by investigation') [1] is the systematic study and documentation of the human past. [2][3] History is an academic discipline which uses a narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and ...

  8. Category:Theories of history - Wikipedia

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    H. Heroic theory of invention and scientific development. Historical determinism. Historicism. Horserider Theory. Hydraulic empire.

  9. Talcott Parsons - Wikipedia

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    The theory includes a general theory of social evolution and a concrete interpretation of the major drives of world history. In Parsons' theory of history and evolution, the constitutive-cognitive symbolization of the cybernetic hierarchy of action-systemic levels has, in principle, the same function as genetic information in DNA's control of ...