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Jan 5, 2012 · 2 R.G. Collingwood. An Autobiography. (Oxford, 1939), Chapter x; he also developed the idea in two lectures of 1935–1936, reprinted in The Idea of History (Oxford, 1946), part v, Chapters 1 and 2. But he traces the emergence of the definition in his own mind to a series of notes which he made during the years 1928–1930.
- R.B. Smith
- 2007
R. G. CollingwoodIdea of History. Robin George Collingwood, or R. G. Collingwood as he is more usually known, was Waynefleet Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Oxford University from 1935 to 1941. During his career Collingwood attempted to integrate and understand human experience and knowledge, and to bring together history and philosophy.
The idea of a science of human nature, as entertained in the eighteenth century, belonged to a time when it was still believed that the human species, like every other, was a special creation with unalterable characteristics. The fallacy inherent in the very idea of a science of human.
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’. The author argues the need to go beyond Collingwood, first by demonstrating the authenticity of available evidence, and secondly, using Namier as an example, by considering methodology as well ...
- R.B. Smith
- 2007
Collingwood's theory of history and of its method-of what the historiar. is trying to do and the proper method of going about it-largely follows. from his conception of the nature of historical fact, which, of course, must be determined before we can decide what the subject-matter of history really. is.
Epilegomena: 3: Historical Evidence. Introduction. ' History,' said Bury, 'is a science ; no less, and no more.'. Perhaps it is no less : that depends on what you mean by a science. There is a slang usage, like that for which ' hall' means a music-hall or 'pictures' moving pictures, according to which 'science' means natural science. Whether ...
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Feb 18, 2007 · Collingwood’s slogan was that “history is the science of the mind,” and Walsh appears to accept much of this perspective. So the key intellectual task for the historian, on this approach, is to reconstruct the reasons or motives that actors had at various points in history (and perhaps the conditions that led them to have these reasons and motives).
