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- 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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concrete facts. The obvious and most direct method is by perception, and in one place at least Collingwood actually identifies perception with history. He warns us, however, that we must not imagine that perception is a purely immediate form of apprehension which excludes thinking. It is not the same as sensation. Quite the contrary.
Jan 11, 2006 · Collingwood’s philosophy of history is a sustained attempt to delineate the subject matter of history and why this subject matter cannot be captured by adopting the methods of natural science.
- Giuseppina D'Oro, James Connelly
- 2006
The concepts and subjects Collingwood’s views on the methodology of history are especially related to are the logic of question and answer, historical evidence and its interpretation, and the narrative aspect of history.
- Jan van der Dussen
- 2016
Collingwood (1946: 113-122) was much more sympathetic to Hegel’s view, though discriminatingly critical of it. In my opinion, even Croce, despite his attack on speculative philosophy of history, comes close to a Hegelian viewpoint when he identifies (in some obscure sense) philosophy with history.
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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.
Jan 11, 2006 · Primarily through the interpretative efforts of W. H. Dray, Collingwood's work in the philosophy of history came to be seen as providing a powerful antidote against Carl Hempel's claim for methodological unity.
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