This book presents a study of the nature and conditions of historical knowledge, conducted through a study of the relevant theories of Hume, Hegel and Vico. It is usually thought that in order to establish historical facts, we have to have a theory of human nature to support our arguments. Hume, Hegel and Vico all subscribed to this view, and are therefore discussed in detail. Professor Pompa goes on to argue that there is in fact no way of discovering anything about human nature except through historical investigation. It is necessary therefore to find a different way of thinking about how we discover historical facts. This is done in the last chapter where, in opposition to almost all present views, it is argued that we must have a framework of inherited knowledge before we can believe in anything which results from historical enquiry.
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This book is about the presuppositions of historical knowledge. It rejects the view, held by Hume, Hegel and Vico, that historical knowledge presupposes a theory of human nature, in favour of the view that the discovery of new historical knowledge assumes the inheritance of a body of knowledge sufficient to constitute a determinate sense of the past.
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My aim in this chapter is two-fold: to explore Hume's theory of historical knowledge and its relationship to his conception of human nature, and to develop a critique of its implications, and that of similarly orientated theories, for the possibility of such knowledge. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
epistemological neutralism, more determinate beliefs, metaphysical uniformity, ideal eternal history, progressive socialisation, uniformity thesis, specialised history, spiritual determinants, emergent rationality, eternal history traversed, empirical historian, reflective history, sophical history, original historian, philosophical historian, poetic man, historical inference, historical reasoning, historical belief, pragmatic history, poetic age Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cambridge University Press, Kemp Smith, Johns Hopkins University Press, Clarendon Press, Cornell University Press, Duncan Forbes, Oxford University Press, Queen Victoria, The Political Philosophy of Giambattista Vico, Basil Blackwell, Charles Taylor, Hayden White, Historical Thought, Kegan Paul, Martinus Nijhoff, Miss Anscombe, The Hague, University of Chicago Press, Western Europe New!
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My aim in this chapter is two-fold: to explore Hume's theory of historical knowledge and its relationship to his conception of human nature, and to develop a critique of its implications, and that of similarly orientated theories, for the possibility of such knowledge. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
epistemological neutralism, more determinate beliefs, metaphysical uniformity, ideal eternal history, progressive socialisation, uniformity thesis, specialised history, spiritual determinants, emergent rationality, eternal history traversed, empirical historian, reflective history, sophical history, original historian, philosophical historian, poetic man, historical inference, historical reasoning, historical belief, pragmatic history, poetic age Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cambridge University Press, Kemp Smith, Johns Hopkins University Press, Clarendon Press, Cornell University Press, Duncan Forbes, Oxford University Press, Queen Victoria, The Political Philosophy of Giambattista Vico, Basil Blackwell, Charles Taylor, Hayden White, Historical Thought, Kegan Paul, Martinus Nijhoff, Miss Anscombe, The Hague, University of Chicago Press, Western Europe New!
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- New Science (Penguin Classics) by Giambattista Vico on 20 pages
- Philosophy of History (Great Books in Philosophy) by Georg Wilhelm Friedri Hegel on 6 pages
- The Idea of History: With Lectures 1926-1928 by R. G. Collingwood on 5 pages
- Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on 4 pages
- Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Hayden White on page 68, page 185, and Back Matter
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- Collingwood and the Metaphysics of Experience (Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy) by Giuseppina D'Oro in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Companion to the Study of History by Michael Stanford in Back Matter
- Hume's Enlightenment Tract: The Unity and Purpose of An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding by Stephen Buckle in Back Matter
- The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial by Robert Jan van Pelt in Back Matter
- British Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment: Routledge History of Philosophy Volume 5 by Stuart Brown on page 353
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