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Mar 4, 1999 · Collingwood himself seems to find something like the first of these possibilities acceptable enough in natural history (IH 239); and he sometimes appears to allow a marginal role for the second even in human history. 7 Collingwood has other reasons, of course, for questioning whether human actions, including those of past agents whom historians may now be inclined to treat as authorities, fall ...
This chapter first discusses the scope of re-enactment, then Collingwood's supposed intellectualism, rationality in Collingwood's subject-matter of history, his exclusion of perception, appetite, and emotion from the proper subject-matter of history, and how the idea of re-enactment can apply to the history of art and metaphysics.
The first of these concerns the theory of eternal objects. For Collingwood, Whitehead appears to believe that every “empirical quality” (Alexander’s term)—for example the blueness of the sky at a certain moment—is an eternal object. His objection is that this leads logically to absurdity.
Jan 11, 2006 · As Collingwood puts it in The New Leviathan (1942), the relationship between the mind and the body “is a relation between the sciences of the body, or natural sciences, and the sciences of the mind; that is the relation inquiry into which ought to be substituted for the make-believe inquiry into the make-believe problem of ‘the relation between body and mind” (NL, 2.49/11). In line with ...
Jan 11, 2006 · R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943) was a British philosopher and practising archaeologist best known for his work in aesthetics and the philosophy of history. During the 1950s and 1960s his philosophy of history, in particular, occupied centre stage in the debate concerning the nature of explanation in the social sciences and whether or not they ...
- Giuseppina D'Oro, James Connelly
- 2006
1 Collingwood uses the terms “re-enactment” and “re-thinking” synonymously (The Idea of History [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970], 215, 288 Google Scholar).The historian's re-enactment of the thought behind an historical agent's action consists in the fact that he shows that his action was rational because it followed as a practical inference from the epistemic and motivational ...
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In his book on Collingwood’s philosophy of history, written almost 40 years after Laws and Explanation in History, Dray still refers to the rational explanation model, saying of Collingwood’s idea of re-enactive understanding that the historian elicits ‘from the performance of an action an implied practical argument which represents what was done as the thing to have done, given the ...
