Human nature and historical knowledge Hume, Hegel, and Vico
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
1990
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| Ver en Catálogo Colectivo de las Bibliotecas Agustinianas de España: | http://catalogo.bibliotecasagustinianas.es/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=427300 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Hume: The constancy of human nature
- Introduction
- The science of man
- The formal conditions of historical knowledge
- The causal nature of historical inference
- the uniformity of human nature
- The constancy of human consciousness
- Epistemological neutralism
- The uniformity of concepts
- The ontological status of social ideas
- Conclusion
- 2. Hegel: The self-development of reason
- Introduction
- Hegel and the constancy of human nature
- pre-philosophical history
- Philosophical history
- The final cause
- The efficient cause
- The material cause
- The relationship between the final, efficient and material causes
- Dialectic and the final end
- The logical priority of the idea
- First-order and second-order history
- Conclusion
- 3. Vico: The ideal eternal history
- Vico and Hegel
- The non-rational origins of humanity
- First-order history and emergent rationality
- Emergent rationality and the 'ideal eternal history'
- Providence
- The logical status of the 'ideal eternal history'
- Philosophy and philology
- Philosophy of the self and society as a self
- Conclusion
- 4. Historical consciousness and historical knowledge
- The concept of an historical perspective
- Existential historical facts
- Historical forms of consciousness
- The existence and location of historical consciousness
- The limits of constancy and change
- Historical consciousness and historical knowledge
