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- 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.
Jan 11, 2006 · The subject matter of history, Collingwood claims, is not merely human actions but res gestae. These These 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 ...
- Giuseppina D'Oro, James Connelly
- 2006
Though Collingwood does not refer to it explicitly, he has this in mind when he says that ‘an act of thought, in addition to actually happening, is capable of sustaining itself and being revived or repeated without loss of its identity’ (IH, 300).
- 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.
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 satisfying account of human history, which is threaded through with emotional reactions and convictions, impulse and chance, and the irrational behaviour that results? 1.2.
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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.
