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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/entries/collingwood-aesthetics/Collingwood’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.
The position that all history is the history of thought is part of Collingwood’s view on the object of history, being, as said, human actions done in the past: ‘Historians think and always have thought that history is about Res Gestae, deeds, actions done in the past’ (PH, 40). Being the object of history it is important how an action is ...
- Jan van der Dussen
- 2016
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 ...
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.
During his career Collingwood attempted to integrate and understand human experience and knowledge, and to bring together history and philosophy. He considered that worthwhile historical studies must take on board, as a key aspect of their proper function, the goal of self-knowledge of the mind.
human actions should contain not only a narrow subset of their activities, but the whole range, including emotions, impulses, and chance. How can Collingwood provide a
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Jan 18, 2019 · Making human reality intelligible in terms of action is the quintessential feature of history, and it is, for Collingwood, a contingent matter whether the actions in question happened two seconds ago or 2000 years ago (cf. IH: 219).
