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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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Sep 1, 2007 · R.G. Collingwood defined historical knowledge as essentially ‘scientific’, and saw the historian's task as the ‘re-enactment of past thoughts’.
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- R.G. Collingwood's Definition of Historical Knowledge
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.
By historical thinking, the mind whose self-knowledge is history not only discovers within itself those powers of which historical thought reveals the possession, but actually develops those powers from a latent to an actual state, brings them into effective existence.
Jan 11, 2006 · If Collingwood’s philosophy of history is an attempt to identify the distinctive subject matter of history and the logical form of historical judgements, then his metaphilosophy should be understood as defending a form of explanatory pluralism, not a form of historical relativism (D’Oro 2018b).
- Giuseppina D'Oro, James Connelly
- 2006
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.
Mar 4, 1999 · Abstract. 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.
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Mar 4, 1999 · This emphasis is reminiscent of the approach taken by Collingwood in Speculum Mentis, before he had begun to think of history as involving re-enactment, where he describes the object of historical thought as ‘organized individuality’ or a ‘concrete universal’ (SM 220).
