The Philosophy of History: With Reflections and AphorismsW. W. Norton & Company, 17 feb 1983 - 196 pagine A classic volume by a noted philosopher, available again. John William Miller (1895-1978) taught at Williams College, where from 1945 to 1960 he was Mark Hopkins Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy. His extraordinary teaching is described in Masters: Portraits of Great Teachers, edited by Joseph Epstein. While deeply indebted to Plato, Kant, and Hegel, Miller arrived at a strikingly original reinterpretation of the history of philosophy, which, he believed, resolved long-standing epistemological and moral problems generated by that history. The Philosophy of History criticizes all attempts to interpret history on premises not themselves historical. Miller holds that "to view history philosophically is to consider it as a constitutional mode of experience, a way of organization no less fundamental than physics or logic." |
Sommario
Preface | 9 |
The Utility of Historical Study | 13 |
Motives | 18 |
Explanation | 23 |
Cause | 27 |
s Purpose | 32 |
Psychology | 37 |
Accidents | 40 |
Memory as Control | 100 |
Prediction | 102 |
Documentation | 107 |
The Referent of a Statement in History | 116 |
The Facts | 123 |
Order and Disorder | 127 |
The Common and the Unique | 130 |
Action and Immediacy | 136 |
The Static Ideal | 44 |
Mistrust of Time | 51 |
Alliance with Time | 61 |
A Victory Is in Time | 66 |
The Sense of Time | 70 |
Time and Immediacy | 74 |
The Sense of History | 80 |
Is The Simultaneous and the Successive | 87 |
Memory and Morals | 91 |
Memory and the Humanities | 95 |
The Past as an Influence | 98 |
The Free Act | 139 |
Power | 142 |
Might and Right | 144 |
Action Is Inherently Historical | 147 |
Myth and Error | 151 |
Myth and Control | 157 |
The Role of the Actual | 165 |
Judgment | 168 |
Reflections and Aphorisms | 174 |
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