Chapter Two The Science of History, Philosophy of History, and Reestablishing Judaism as the Religion of Reason (vis-à-vis Secular Humanism and Christianity)

2015 ◽  
pp. 49-105
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Secular Humanism ◽  
Science Of History ◽  
Religion Of Reason

DOCUMENTS, ARCHIVES, AND PROOF AROUND 1700

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 909-930 ◽  
Author(s):  
RANDOLPH C. HEAD
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
De Re ◽  
Science Of History ◽  
State Practice ◽  
Textual Features ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Archival Practices

ABSTRACTJean Mabillon'sDe re diplomatica, whose importance for diplomatics and the philosophy of history is well recognized, also contributed to the seventeenth-century European debate over the relationship among documents, archives, and historical or juridical proof. This article juxtaposes early works on diplomatics by Mabillon, Daniel Papebroche, and Barthélémy Germon against Germanius archivitheorists including Rutger Ruland and Ahasver Fritsch to reveal two incommensurate approaches that emerged around 1700 for assessing the authority of written records. Diplomatics concentrated on comparing the material and textual features of individual documents to authentic specimens in order to separate the genuine from the spurious, whereas theius archiviemphasized thepublica fides(public faith) that documents derived from their placement in an authentic sovereign's archive. Diplomatics' emergence as a separate auxiliary science of history encouraged the erasure of archivality from the primary conditions of documentary assessment for historians, however, while theius archivi's privileging of institutional over material criteria for authority foreshadowed European state practice and the evolution of archivistics into the twentieth century. This article investigates these competing discourses of evidence and their implications from the perspective of early modern archival practices.

scholarly journals Philosophy and methodology of definitions of history

wisdom ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-108
Author(s):  
Romik Kocharyan
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Philosophical Hermeneutics ◽  
General Conception ◽  
Science Of History

This article suggests a complex unity of definitions of history which should serve for the elucidation of the essence and true adequacy of the science of history to its design. Our general conception of history is based on the works of Father of Armenian’s History Movses Khorenatsi (5th century). The science of history is interpreted following our conception of “hermeneutics of wisdom” developed on the basis of H.-G. Gadamer’s “philosophical hermeneutics” which specificity I have already explicated as “hermeneutics of truth” in my monograph “Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics”. In this article, the conceptual and methodological achievements of both these conceptions: “hermeneutics of truth” and – as its perfected implication – “hermeneutics of wisdom”, important for philosophy of history that is understanding of nature of history are used. In formulating definitions of history the author uses the logical-methodological instrument of the prominent Medieval Armenian philosopher David the Invincible (5th – 6th centuries). The definitions of history suggested in this paper are distributed into three main classes: separately by its subject of study, separately by its fulfillment, and jointly – by its subject of study and fulfillment. The formulated set of definitions of history should serve for a deeper understanding of Movses Khorenatsi’s heritage as well as for adequately revealing the truth of “being-of-history as such”.

scholarly journals The Conception of the Universal Dual Categories of Wisdom in Movses Khorenatsi’s Doctrine of History

wisdom ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-88
Author(s):  
Romik Kocharyan
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Great Work ◽  
Science Of History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theory Of History ◽  
Methodological Aspects

The author of this article presents a system of 12 dual categories of philosophy of history first outlined in his monograph dedicated to the study of the philosophical-methodological aspects of Movses Khorenatsi’s great work “The History of Armenians”. The system of 12 dual categories of wisdom of history suggested by the author of this article, demonstrate that Movses Khorenatsi’s theory of history builds a firm conception of philosophizing “science of history”.

The modern philosophy of history: historical-anthropological problematics

2018 ◽  
pp. 4-9
Author(s):  
Sp. Sh. Aytov
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Cognitive Perspective

This article is devoted to the analysis of the formation of the cognitive perspective of the historical-anthropological dimension of modern philosophy of history. The influence of the mentioned problem field on the development of intellectual directions of modern philosophical and historical studios was studied.

Local Histories/Global Designs

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter D. Mignolo
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Central America ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
South Central ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Border Thinking ◽  
East West

This book is an extended argument about the “coloniality” of power. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, this book points to the inadequacy of current practices in the social sciences and area studies. It explores the crucial notion of “colonial difference” in the study of the modern colonial world and traces the emergence of an epistemic shift, which the book calls “border thinking.” Further, the book expands the horizons of those debates already under way in postcolonial studies of Asia and Africa by dwelling on the genealogy of thoughts of South/Central America, the Caribbean, and Latino/as in the United States. The book's concept of “border gnosis,” or sensing and knowing by dwelling in imperial/colonial borderlands, counters the tendency of occidentalist perspectives to manage, and thus limit, understanding. A new preface discusses this book as a dialogue with Hegel's Philosophy of History.

Das Ende der Kultur: Wie Georg Simmel den Begriff der Kultur soziologisch dekonstruiert

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 79-94
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Fellmann
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Georg Simmel ◽  
The Social ◽  
Auguste Comte ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
The Way

In this paper I claim that the metaphysical concept of culture has come to an end. Among the European authors Georg Simmel is the foremost who has deconstructed the myth of culture as a substantial totality beyond relations or prior to them. Two tenets of research have prepared the end of all-inclusive culture: First, Simmel’s formal access that considers society as the modality of interactions and relations between individuals, thus overcoming the social evolutionism of Auguste Comte; second, his critical exegesis of idealistic philosophy of history, thus leaving behind the Hegelian tradition. Although Simmel adheres in some statements to the out-dated idea of morphological unity, his sociological and epistemological thinking paved the way for the concept of social identity as a network of series connected loosely by contiguity. This type of connection is confirmed by the present feeling of life as individual self-invention according to changing situations.

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