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- Collingwood's point is that all historical knowledge, whether explicitly documented or the product of disciplined imagination, must be actively constructed by the scholar. Historical knowledge, while it relates to ‘the past’ in the sense of some actual time and place, is the product of the historian's own activity in ‘the present’.
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Mar 4, 1999 · A central motif of R. G. Collingwood's philosophy of history is the idea that historical understanding requires a re-enactment of past experience. However, there have been sharp disagreements about the acceptability of this idea, and even its meaning.
Mar 4, 1999 · Collingwood sees the interpolative, constructive aspect of historical thinking, working from selected sources and proceeding in accordance with certain principles of inquiry, as gradually elaborating a ‘web’ of accepted fact, an increasingly plausible and detailed ‘picture’ of a portion of the past, composed of assertions made in the ...
Historical thought, thought about rational activity, is free from the domination of natural science, and rational activity is free from the domination of nature. The intimacy of the connexion between these two discoveries might be expressed by saying that they are the same thing in different words.
His major work, The Idea of History, was published posthumously in 1946. In the introduction to The Idea of History Collingwood attempted to define a "philosophy of history" and discussed the nature, object, method and value of history.
‘The philosophy of history, so understood’, Collingwood says, ‘means bringing to light the principles used in historical thinking, and criticizing them; its function is to criticize and regulate these principles, with the object of making history truer and historically better’ (IH, 346).
- Jan van der Dussen
- 2016
Collingwood's theory of history is variously stated in his works, and it is not always clear whether what he has written in one place is compatible with what he has written in others. The treatment of the subject in the Autobiography is closely in accord with that in The Idea of History, though
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ON COLLINGWOOD'S PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY I R. G. Collingwood's The Idea of History (Clarendon Press, 1946) "is an essay in the philosophy of history." Philos ophy of history, as Collingwood understood it, is of very recent origin. It emerged as a sequel to the rise of "scientific history" which took place in the latter part of the nineteenth ...
