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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 ...
Thus a biography, for example, however much history it contains, is constructed on principles that are not only non-historical but anti-historical. Its limits are biological events, the birth and death of a human organism: its framework is thus a framework not of thought but of natural process.
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.
When discussing historical sources, the British philosopher is referring both written sources: historical documents, “authorities”; but also to unwritten sources and material evidence: archaeological ruins, fragments of found objects, coins, and so forth.
‘These archaeological sciences are a sine qua non of critical history’, he says in ‘Outlines of a Philosophy of History’, adding to it that ‘[t]hey are not themselves history; they are only methods of dealing with the sources of history … They form, as it were, the bones of all historical thinking.
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Aug 12, 2024 · In the following essay, Rotenstreich provides an analysis of Collingwood's views regarding history as a set of facts and as an object of knowledge.
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This chapter examines what Collingwood says about the place of physical conditions in history as well as his view of the role of social conditions, events, and structures.
