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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.
Hegel's lectures on the philosophy of history contain one of his most well-known and controversial claims about the notion of freedom: World history is the record of the spirit's efforts to attain knowledge of what it is in itself. The Orientals do not know that the spirit or man as such are free in themselves. And because they do not know that ...
William Herbert Dray (23 June 1921, in Montreal – 6 August 2009, in Toronto) was a Canadian philosopher of history. He was Professor Emeritus at the University of Ottawa. [1] He is known for his version of anti-positivist Verstehen in history, in Laws and Explanation in History, [2] and his work on R. G. Collingwood.
Historical method is the collection of techniques and guidelines that historians use to research and write histories of the past. Secondary sources, primary sources and material evidence such as that derived from archaeology may all be drawn on, and the historian's skill lies in identifying these sources, evaluating their relative authority, and combining their testimony appropriately in order ...
In the essay, Benjamin uses poetic and scientific analogies to present a critique of historicism. [4]One interpretation of Benjamin in Thesis I is that Benjamin is suggesting that despite claims to scientific objectivity, the historical materialism of vulgar Marxists is actually a quasi-religious fraud or conversely that theology is an essential and ultimately unavoidable backdrop to ...
Historicity in philosophy is the idea or fact that something has a historical origin and developed through history: concepts, practices, values. This is opposed to the belief that the same thing, in particular normative institutions or correlated ideologies, is natural or essential and thus exists universally.
Since 2017 it is under the editorship of Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen, [2] a philosopher of history and science and director of the Centre for Philosophical Studies of History at the University of Oulu. [3] The editorial board consists of Giuseppina D'Oro [ 4 ] (Keele University), Allan Megill [ 5 ] (University of Virginia), Marek Tamm [ 6 ] (Tallinn ...