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‘Re-enactment’
- In the field of the philosophy of history, Collingwood famously held the doctrine of ‘Re-enactment’: since the subject is human beings in action, the historian cannot achieve understanding by describing what happened from an external point of view, but must elicit in the reader’s own mind the thoughts that were taking place in the principal actors involved in historical events.
plato.stanford.edu/archIves/fall2024/entries/collingwood-aesthetics/index.htmlCollingwood’s Aesthetics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
In fact, however, the scientist can reasonably say of it `je n'ai pas eu besoin de cette hypothèse', and the theologian will recoil from any suggestion that God's action in the natural world resembles the action of a finite human mind under the conditions of historical life.
Collingwood argues that science can only explain events, not actions. The latter are the distinctive subject matter of history and can be described as actions only if they are explained historically.
- Giuseppina D'Oro
The desire to envisage human action as free was bound up with a desire to achieve autonomy for history as the study of human action. But I do not leave the matter there ; because I wish to point out that of the two statements I am considering, one is necessarily prior to the other.
Collingwood argues that science can only explain events, not actions. The latter is the distinctive subject matter of history and can be described as actions only if they are explained...
address the problems we intuitively want it to solve—those dealing with past human experience as it actually occurred. Using The Principles of Art (PA), I present an interpretation of Collingwood’s philosophy of history in which emotions are communicable between individuals. His theory of art defines artistic creation as a process
Jan 11, 2006 · As Collingwood puts it, the so-called Res Gestae “are not the actions, in the widest sense of that word, which are done by animals of the species called human; they are actions in another sense of the same word, equally familiar but narrower, actions done by reasonable agents in pursuit of ends determined by their reason.” (PH, 46). History ...
Jan 16, 2018 · This paper explains Collingwood’s claim that the distinctive subject matter of history is actions and why the attempt to capture this subject matter through the method of science inevitably ends in failure because science explains events, not actions.
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