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 Philosophy of history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saint Augustine, Bossuet and Leibniz are followers of a specific form of philosophy of history, called Theodicy, which accords to human history a transcendent sense and believe it is controlled by God.
A classic example of history being written by the victors would be the scarcity of unbiased information that has come down to us about the Carthaginians.
For instance, the writing of history in the West was tremendously influenced by what was written in the Soviet Union after the birth of communism in 1917.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_history   (2962 words)

  
 Imam Sadr: Philosophy of History
History is a process in which the will of God or the power of his message do not endure.
History unfolds according to a specific set of rules and its natural processes are not random, for God's actions are not without meaning.
Throughout history, the followers of all prophets were from the deprived classes.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Cyprus/8613/history.html   (9200 words)

  
 History as Creation
History cannot be thought of according to the determinist schema (or, indeed, according to any simple 'dialectical' schema) because it is the realm of creation.
It breaks up because what should be the union of theory and practice becomes dissociated in real history into a doctrine fossilised in the state in which it was left at the death of its founder, and a practice for which this doctrine serves, at best, as an ideological cover.
It is that as soon as one tries to go beyond the stage of inspirations, intuitions or programmatic intentions - as soon as these ideas have to be given flesh and blood, to become the substance of thoughts which try to encompass the real world and give rise to acts, the fine new unity dissolves.
http://www.geocities.com/cordobakaf/history.html   (8507 words)

  
 Religion, Philosophy and History
The belief that history was a science as hard as the physical sciences was waning while some were restricting themselves to the empirical and merely trying to describe what actually happened.
The ultimate politically, the end of history's march toward perfection, was the state he lived in - Prussia - in alliance with God.
Europe had been parting from its ages-old tie with religion and entering a new age of secularization.
http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h45-ph.html   (3949 words)

  
 AHA Information: George Burton Adams Presidential Address (1908)
They are the words of a poet, who sees before him in a vision the whole of human history, as if it were the sure unfolding of a foreordained plan, bringing steadily on “one far-off, divine event, to which the whole creation moves”.
History must remain one of the highest branches of literature.
What they offer us, in the form of words they use, is a complete explanation of history.
http://www.historians.org/info/AHA_History/gbadams.htm   (4834 words)

  
 Hegel's Philosophy of History
Since Hegel's philosophy is a Christian one, it is interesting to note that this structure has a religious parallel.
For just as the central miracle of Christianity was that God actually descended to earth, merging His divine nature with that of a human, so too does Hegel's philosophy insist upon the union of infinite with the Finite.
The movement of history might then continue in auxiliary forms.
http://www.historicalinsights.com/dave/hegel.html   (2365 words)

  
 Essays in Philosophy -- Fiala
Liberal optimism has been criticized, for example, by John Kekes who calls it "the liberal faith" or "the enlightenment faith." Kekes links this explicitly to what he sees as a naively optimistic philosophy of history and the inability of liberalism to deal with the problem of evil.
He applied this idea to history and politics in 1793 in his Religion book and in 1795 in Perpetual Peace.
Likewise, his view of justice in international relations attempts to avoid historical concerns by focusing on ideal agreement among "peoples" who are abstracted from their previous historical interactions.
http://www.humboldt.edu/~essays/fiala.html   (6726 words)

  
 Philosophy of History
We might propose that the structuralists explain something better than the feminists, say, but that can only mean that the explanation accords with most or all of the available records of the relevant past and that the account "makes sense", explaining matters satisfactorily.
In this section we'll look at the situation within history and see if it is as bad as White insisted.
Since facts themselves are silent, goes the argument, the historian must interpret them to understand their meaning.
http://www.galilean-library.org/int18.html   (7027 words)

  
 Chapter Two
It is important to remember that a spiritual vision of the universe is inherent in PROUT philosophy.
Art, politics, economics, religion, philosophy, science, technology, music, dress, and customs all must be integrated into a holistic vision and understood as an expression of the prevalent socio-psychology.
Religion replaced Magic as the dominant social outlook and leadership passed from the tribal counsel to the warrior king.
http://www.prout.org/ChapterTwo.html   (4461 words)

  
 Hegel: Philosophy and history as theology.
In the history of the world, the idea of Spirit appears in its actual embodiment in a series of existing forms, each of which declares itself as an actually existing people.
While it is exclusively its own basis of existence and absolute final aim, it is also the energizing power realizing this aim; developing it not only in the phenomena of the natural, but also of the spiritual universe - the history of the world.
The central idea of the Process Theology of A. Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne - the idea of a God evolving in the universe through history - derives from Hegel.
http://members.aol.com/pantheism0/hegel.htm   (2147 words)

  
 An African Philosophy of History in the Oral Tradition
The historian, the man grounded in knowledge of community history is characterised as "the son of the soil." The Ikwerre term, diali, means son of Ali, the Earth, venerated as a dominant goddess.
First, what are the consequences of ignorance or neglect of history?
We note that age provides opportunity, and not complete assurance of wisdom or knowledge.
http://nigerdeltacongress.com/articles/an_african_philosophy_of_history.htm   (1353 words)

  
 Roberts - Geoffrey Elton and the Philosophy of History
The so-called lessons of history do not teach you to do this or that now; they teach you to think more deeply, more completely, and on the basis of an enormously enlarged experience, about what it may be possible or desirable to do now...
Elton, as he made plain, offered to historians and students not a treatise but a manifesto--a statement of faith in the founding assumptions of their craft and a guide to the differences separating them from colleagues in the social sciences.
On one occasion Elton wrote: `history is an unending search for the truth, with the only certainty at each man's end that there will be more to be said and that, before long, other's will say it'.
http://www.ucc.ie/chronicon/elton.htm   (2120 words)

  
 History of Philosophy
René Descartes and the Meditations on First Philosophy
Chicago Schools: Economics, Religion, Philosophy, & Law [4.8K]
Rudolf Otto in Rem B. Edwards' Reason and Religion [6.4K]
http://www.friesian.com/history.htm   (888 words)

  
 Feminist History of Philosophy
Of course, women are not entirely absent from the history of philosophy, and that brings us to the second challenge we face.
What Reason Has Forgotten; Reasons for Forgetting" in Hypatia vol.
Feminist philosophers are faced with a tradition that believes that there are no women philosophers and, if there are any, they are unimportant.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-femhist   (4611 words)

  
 History of Philosophy
Philosophy and Religion: Augustine ][ Scholasticism ][ Arab and Jewish Thought
Although some sections are nearly complete, this remains a work in progress; please be patient.
Please note that references to the on-line editions of philosophical texts will open in a second browser window, while the narrative (and other Philosophy Pages material) remains here.
http://www.philosophypages.com/hy   (262 words)

  
 Penn Philosophy Departmental History
(Singer also had two years at Harvard as James' assistant.) Newbold, who was also Dean of the Graduate Faculty, began as a classicist and was known as a specialist in the history of ancient philosophy; but he also worked on the theory of belief, hypnotism, and spiritualism.
Its report in 1887 failed to find any positive evidence for a spirit world, and subsequent holders of the Chair were released from further investigation of spiritualism.
Throughout the nineteenth century there was a professor of Moral Philosophy, who was typically a clergyman and often the Provost (chief academic officer) of the University.
http://www.phil.upenn.edu/history/history.html   (1636 words)

  
 Philosophy of History at Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base
From the Dawn of Mankind to the Space Age and everything in between.
Recently retired from her position as a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Lerner has crafted a profound and powerful meditation on what history means to her, and why it should matter to us.
Why History Matters : Life and Thought by Gerda Lerner.
http://www.erraticimpact.com/~topics/html/philosophy_of_history.htm   (889 words)

  
 OUP: Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy: Sorell
All of these aspects of the subject sit uneasily with the use of historical texts for philosophical illumination.
This is the kind of history of philosophy that emphasises the status of a philosophical text as one document among others from a faraway intellectual world, and that tries to acquaint us with that world in order to produce understanding of the document.
In this book, ten distinguished historians of philosophy, mostly trained in the analytic tradition, explore the tensions between, and the possibilities of reconciling, analytic philosophy and history of philosophy.
http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-927899-7   (575 words)

  
 Open Directory - Society: Philosophy: Philosophy of History
Pyramid of the Sun - Essays about the effects of hierarchical structures on governments, organized religions and corporations.
Game Theory of Human History - Robert Wright summarizes his book "Nonzero: The Logic Of Human Destiny", which uses game theory to develop a philosophy of history.
Christian Philosophy of History - Comparison between Jacques Maritain and Nicolas Berdyaev's Christian philosophy of history and their impact on the Christian views of history and of mankind's future.
http://dmoz.org/Society/Philosophy/Philosophy_of_History   (763 words)

  
 20th WCP: Philosophy of History
Sartre On Our Responsibility For Dead Lives: Implications For Teaching History
The papers indexed below were given at the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, in Boston, Massachusetts from August 10-15, 1998.
Additional papers may be added to this section as electronic versions are aquired and formatted for the archive.
http://www.bu.edu/wcp/MainHist.htm   (199 words)

  
 Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Each individual is the Son of his Nation, the Son of his Age.
§ 65 The investigation of the history of ancient peoples, to trace their annals up to the point where fragments of primary revelation are to be met with.
§ 75 The condition of Philosophy's existence is the taking up of the object of thought, and at the same time clothing it with the form of universality.
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hi/hiconten.htm   (1973 words)

  
 TRINITARIAN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY, Trinitism, Philosophy
As the mind can be on only one thing, his changing minds and values are the basis for changes in his life.
Extending from this free-willed trinity of spiritual-rational-sensual ages there may be a non-free-willed, emotive Age of No-values.
This is evident in Western Civilization with its dominantly spiritual Medieval Age of theology, the rational Renaissance Age of philosophy, and the sensual Modern Age of science.
http://hometown.aol.com/trinitine/esay3.htm   (1601 words)

  
 History of Philosophy
Chapter LXXII : Catholic Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century
The writer wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to the Rev. J.
Under the title "Sources," the student will find mention of the most recent publications and of one or two standard works which have heen selected as being most easy of access.
http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/hop.htm   (670 words)

  
 UO Philosophy:Specializations
Research in the history of philosophy at the University of Oregon is affirmed and practiced by every member of the faculty in the department.
The general interest in our department in the history of philosophy opens up the question of the diversification and continuity of philosophical inquiry, and affirms the need to be receptive to the many differing accounts of the transmission of thought and practices.
Research into the history of philosophy at the University of Oregon is itself a philosophical task, inseparable from the questions, discourses and theories which we take to define philosophical practice.
http://philosophy.uoregon.edu/special/history.html   (271 words)

  
 Philosophy of History
John William Miller also wrote The Definition of the Thing: With Some Notes on Language.
The Philosophy History: With Reflections and Aphorisms criticizes all attempts to interpret history on premises not themselves historical.
Miller holds that "to view history philosophically is to consider it as a constitutional mode of experience, a way of organization no less fundamental than physics or logic."
http://www.wordtrade.com/history/philosophyhistory2R.htm   (348 words)

  
 Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome
According to Navarro Valls, the book is a work on the philosophy of history in which the Pope considers topics such as modern democracy, liberty and human rights, the diverse concepts of nation, fatherland and the state, the more-than-functional relationship between nation and culture, the rights of man, and the relationship between church and state.
The book makes the reader think about the great problem of finding the meaning of history, said Navarro Valls.
In "Memory and Identity," the Pope looks for these roots, and at his relationship to the terrible moments in recent history, as well as the "innumerable positive fruits" which have been the result of Western history.
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=60046   (577 words)

  
 LRB Bernard Williams : Why Philosophy Needs History
Most scientists, though they may find the history of science interesting, do not think that it is of much use for their science, which they reasonably see as a progressive activity that has lost its past errors and incorporated its past discoveries into textbooks and current theory.
Bernard Williams is a fellow of All Souls and a professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley.
The American philosopher who stuck on his office door the notice 'Just say NO to the history of philosophy' was probably riding on the idea that the same could be said of philosophy.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n20/will03_.html   (332 words)

  
 Philosophy of AI
- Unable to explain how the brain works, just about every human throughout history has believed in souls or spirits.
You don't have to agree with me of course (The great thing about philosophy is it's not falsifiable!):
Here are some big names and my take on them.
http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~humphrys/Notes/AI/philosophy.html   (940 words)

  
 Open Directory - Society: Philosophy: History of Philosophy
History of Philosophy - A very large, diverse collection of essays addressing many philosophical, historical, scientific, religious, economic, legal, and political issues.
History of Philosophy - A survey of the history of Western philosophy, by Garth Kemerling at philosophypages.com.
History of Philosophy Quarterly - Scholarly journal which strives to treat the work of past philosophers not only in terms of historical inquiry, but also as a means of dealing with issues of ongoing philosophical concern.
http://dmoz.org/Society/Philosophy/History_of_Philosophy   (140 words)

  
 History of Philosophy Resources
That is, those who study the philosophy of history might well ask whether the history of philosophy is even possible...
Beginning philosophy students often ask about the difference between the History of Philosophy and the Philosophy of History.
The history of philosophy is the study of traditions of philosophy in historical context (as in a timeline), whereas the philosophy of history is the study and critique of the human attempt and highly questionable ability (and ultimate failure?) to provide an adequate record of history.
http://www.erraticimpact.com/history_index.htm   (203 words)

  
 Philosophy Pages
Visitors are welcome to browse and to make fair use of the copyrighted text found on these pages.
A survey of the History of Western Philosophy.
A simple menu appears at the top of each page of this site, and since all of these documents are heavily interlinked with each other, it should be easy to pursue alternate paths through their content.
http://www.philosophypages.com   (208 words)

  
 History, Anthropology, and Philosophy
History lovers will find Augusta State University a wonderful place to study.
We offer a BA degree in history, with a challenging curriculum that prepares students for success in graduate schools or in a variety of careers, most notably in the areas of teaching, law, journalism, and administration.
New classroom buildings offer students a technology-rich learning environment with access to the resources and research that make the study of history here stimulating and rewarding.
http://www.aug.edu/history_and_anthropology   (190 words)

  
 Philosophy of History and Culture
This series presents original works broadly concerned with philosophical treatments of the ideas of culture and history, culturally and historically embodied entities, and with interpretive strategies pertinent to their understanding.
The series is aimed at readers interested in the philosophy of the arts, cross-cultural phenomena, and the interpretation of literary, historical, legal and religious texts
15 The What and the Why of History
http://www.brill.nl/product.asp?ID=7430   (171 words)

  
 History of Philosophy Quarterly
Contributors regard work in the history of philosophy and in philosophy itself as parts of a seamless whole, treating the work of past philosophers not only in terms of historical inquiry, but also as a means of dealing with issues of ongoing philosophical concern.
The journal favors the approach to philosophical history, increasingly prominent in recent years, that refuses to see the boundary between philosophy and its history as an impassable barrier.
HPQ is published by North American Philosophical Publications and distributed by the University of Illinois Press.
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/hpq.html   (163 words)

  
 Marilynn Lawrence - Philosophy, Art, History of Philosophy, History of Astrology, Hellenistic Astrology
Also see the cover art I created for Origen of Alexandria and St. Maximus the Confessor by Edward Moore, at Amazon.com.
Please see my article on this topic at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy for a study of the interaction of ancient philosophy and astrology.
section is list of academic resources (translations, websites, etc) for the most formative period in the history of astrology.
http://www.astro-guide.com   (167 words)

  
 Philosophy of History
The law of the passage from the "magical" to the "rational" regime or state in the history of human culture
CHAPTER I: The Philosophy of History in General
Philosophy of History and Moral Philosophy adequately taken
http://www2.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/philhist.htm   (152 words)

  
 Ankersmit, Frank: A New Philosophy of History
The range of approaches found in A New Philosophy of History ensures that this book will establish itself as required reading not only for historians, but for everyone interested in literary theory, philosophy, or cultural studies.
From Thucydides to Toynbee historians and nonhistorians alike have wondered how to answer this question.
You may purchase this title at these fine bookstores.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/13010.ctl   (211 words)

  
 OhioLINK History of Philosophy Instructional Website
The Department of Philosophy at Kent State University has performed the design and development of this site, and is responsible for maintaining it.
This page was last modified Tue 13 Jul 1999 at 10:56:06 EDT.
You have connected to the OhioLINK History of Philosophy Instructional Website, an innovative instructional/research tool integrating the facilities of OhioLINK with the teaching of the history of philosophy with an emphasis on student research and writing.
http://iws.ohiolink.edu/philosophy   (155 words)

  
 Philosophy of History Archive (PHA)
The International PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY ARCHIVE (PHA) has been designed by
- all kinds of information concerning writings in Philosophy of History, Theoretical History and related areas: annotated bibliographies, book announcements, book reviews, toptens in PHandTH, etc.
Philosophy of History and Theoretical History (PHandTH), i.e.
http://www.nsu.ru/filf/pha   (269 words)

  
 EMU: History and Philosophy home page has moved
The History and Philosophy department home page is here.
EMU: History and Philosophy home page has moved
The History and Philosophy web site has moved.
http://www.emich.edu/public/history/hisphi.html   (25 words)

  
 Philosophy and History
We encourage all Ann Arbor Open families to education themselves and others in open school principles, philosophy, theory and action.
Parents at Ann Arbor Open are active participants in their children's education and are integral to the Ann Arbor Open environment.
We believe these actions will strengthen our common bonds and facilitate community acceptance of innovative open school programs.
http://aaopen.aaps.k12.mi.us/aaoinfo.html   (845 words)

  
 ADVENTURES IN PHILOSOPHY: History of Philosophy Timeline
The following timeline was created and designed by Dr. Jonathan Dolhenty to help students get a comprehensive picture of the history of philosophy and, in the case of ancient and medieval philosophy, its relationship to other major events occurring during the same time period.
The Beginning of Western Philosophy in Ancient Greece
The Decline and Fall of Greek Freedom (399-322)
http://radicalacademy.com/diahistphil.htm   (122 words)

  
 PROJECT GUTENBERG OFFICIAL HOME SITE - HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY -
The Project Gutenberg Philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search.
The Project Gutenberg Etexts should cost so little that no one will really care how much they cost.
In this same vein, Project Gutenberg selects etexts targeted a bit on the "bang for the buck" philosophy.
http://promo.net/pg/history.html   (2497 words)

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