scholarly journals CLARENDON’S EXILE AND THE ROLE OF PERSONALITY IN HISTORICAL EXPLANATION

2021 ◽  
pp. 73-88
Author(s):  
D’Maris Coffman
Keyword(s):  
Historical Explanation

scholarly journals O Rus, Where Are Thou?

Politeja ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (5(62)) ◽  
pp. 223-235
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Shirinyants
Keyword(s):  
National Development ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Vicious Circle ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Historical Explanation ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Political Myth

The article attempts to define the role of a myth and mythical thinking in the society. It shows a relationship between a socio-political myth and ideology, politics, and historical remembrance. Based on the myth about the progress, the article discusses an issue of choice faced by Russia of the 20th c., namely national development or European advancement? It describes interpretations of economic, socio-political and cultural aspects of Russia’s backwardness, aspresented by representatives of various trends of Russian thought of the 19th c. It lists examples of a paradoxical agreement among conservatists and revolutionaries that a move “forward and up” is not always progressive, whereas the development should always be “national”. Therefore, Russia should not copy all forms of development that have taken place in European countries – from lower to higher. It argues that there is a possible historical explanation of the myth of progress. Namely, attempts to explain diversity and originality of national variations of development (Whither, then, are you speeding, O Russia of mine?) have proved historical differences of the Russian path, as an independent Russian-Orthodox civilisation, towards a better understanding of the “vicious circle” of the modern civilisation: “We are poor because we’re stupid, and we’re stupid because we’re poor.”

A Just Medium: Empathy and Detachment in Historical Understanding

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-200
Author(s):  
Constantine Sandis
Keyword(s):  
Historical Understanding ◽  
Historical Explanation

AbstractThis paper explores the role of empathy and detachment in historical explanation by comparing Collingwood and Hume’s philosophies of history to Brecht and Stanislavki’s theories of theatre. I argue that Collingwood’s notion of re-enactment shares much more with Hume and Brecht than it does with Stanislavski. This enables a just medium between rationalistic and empathetic accounts of historical understanding, as recently put forth by Mark Bevir and Karsten Stueber respectively.

scholarly journals History and the Claims of Revelation: Joseph Smith and the Materialization of the Golden Plates

Numen ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 61 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 182-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Taves
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Historical Explanation ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
Sacred Objects ◽  
Complex Building ◽  
The Creation

AbstractThe Mormon claim that Joseph Smith discovered ancient golden plates buried in a hillside in upstate New York is too often viewed in simple either/or terms, such that the plates either existed, making Smith the prophet he claimed to be, or did not, making him deceptive or delusional. If we assume that there were no ancient golden plates and at the same that Smith was not a fraud, then the task of historical explanation is more complex. Building on a review of the evidence for the materiality of the plates, the paper uses a series of comparisons — between the golden plates and sacred objects in other religious traditions, between Smith’s claims and claims that psychiatrists define as delusional, and between Smith’s role as a seer and the role of the artist and the physician as skilled perceivers — to generate a greater range of explanatory options. In light of these comparisons, we can view the materialization of the golden plates in naturalistic terms as resulting from an interaction between an individual with unusual abilities, intimate others who recognized and called forth those abilities, and objects that facilitated the creation of both the revelator and the revelation.

‘With a Philosophical Eye’: the role of mathematical beauty in Kant’s intellectual development

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 759-788
Author(s):  
Courtney David Fugate
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Development ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Underlying Structure ◽  
A Priori Knowledge ◽  
Early Analysis ◽  
Historical Explanation ◽  
Mathematical Beauty ◽  
Synthetic A Priori ◽  
Priori Knowledge

This paper shows that Kant’s investigation into mathematical purposiveness was central to the development of his understanding of synthetic a priori knowledge. Specifically, it provides a clear historical explanation as to why Kant points to mathematics as an exemplary case of the synthetic a priori, argues that his early analysis of mathematical purposiveness provides a clue to the metaphysical context and motives from which his understanding of synthetic a-priori knowledge emerged, and provides an analysis of the underlying structure of mathematical purposiveness itself, which can be described as unintentional, but also as objective and unlimited.

scholarly journals Tjong Brothers' Participation in Deli Land Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-450
Author(s):  
Rudiansyah Rudiansyah ◽  
Arthur S. Nalan
Keyword(s):  
Growth And Development ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Rail Transportation ◽  
Chinese Community ◽  
East Side ◽  
Great Role ◽  
Historical Explanation ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Dutch East Indies

Deli land is originally awakened from the activities of the planters and Chinese merchants since the 1860-s. With the first center is around the Esplanade on the east side of the Deli River. The development of Deli land is followed by the building of Kesawan area where the Chinese community settlements as well as a place to provide goods and shops that serve the needs of the community, especially for plantation areas. Then, the Chinese played the role of middlemen minority, which played a great role in the growth and development of Deli land. The research was titled “Participation of Tjong brothers in the development of Deli land”. It uses of the historical explanation theory from Kuntowijoyo. In this article tells the figure of Tjong Yong Hian and Tjong A Fie who came from Mexian, Guangdong, China, wander to Deli land and also build a plantation business with the Sultanate of Deli and the Dutch East Indies government. Not only that, Tjong brothers also contributed to the development in the Deli land or Medan city now. They also build a place of worship, schools, banks, rail transportation, bridges, markets and hospitals.

The Gramscian Moment of the Spanish Crisis

boundary 2 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 55-86
Author(s):  
Antonio Gómez López-Quiñones
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
The Political ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Historical Explanation ◽  
Social Landscape ◽  
Organizational Work

One of the surprising outcomes of the 2008 economic crisis in Spain has been the emergence of Antonio Gramsci as a fashionable figure. This “all-purpose Gramsci” forces us to regain some historical perspective on the Spanish reception of his ideas. In the 1970s, different clans within the camp opposing Franco's regime came up with their own self-serving—liberal, Leninist, autonomist, Eurocommunist—versions of Gramsci. The theoretical discussion about these uses and abuses of Gramsci gravitated around the Italian communist's idealist epistemology and the role of “ideology” and “culture” within it. Since 2008, we find two different approaches to this same Gramscian issue: one that peddles a political theory of discursive rearrangement of a semi-emptied and adjustable social landscape; and a second one that embraces a movementist, horizontal, and anti-state organizational work on the ground. The political efficiency of these two approaches is significantly impaired by the lack of a sober historical explanation of why the rapprochement with Gramsci only during times of economic turmoil and political rupture is highly paradoxical.

scholarly journals Social capital, ‘trust’ and the role of networks in Julfan trade: informal and semi-formal institutions at work

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebouh Aslanian
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Institutional Economics ◽  
Social Capital Theory ◽  
New Institutional Economics ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Historical Explanation ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

This essay examines the role of ‘trust’ and cooperation in early modern long-distance trade. While most literature on the subject posits trust as a given attribute of long-distance merchant communities and not as a factor in need of historical explanation or analysis, this essay seeks to provide a historical explanation for the creation and role of trust in such communities. It focuses on the history of Armenian merchants from New Julfa, Isfahan, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The central theoretical model this essay relies upon to explain trust among Julfan Armenian merchants derives from ‘social capital’ theory as elaborated in sociology and economic sociology, as well as theory from the New Institutional Economics associated with the influential work of Avner Greif. Unlike the latter body of work, however, this essay argues that Julfan trust must be understood not solely as an outcome of informal institutions such as reputation-regulating mechanisms discussed by Greif in his work on Maghribi Jews of the medieval period, but also as a result of the simultaneous combination of both informal and semi-formal legal institutions. In the Julfan context, the essay thus focuses on a merchant arbitrage institution known as the Assembly of Merchants, which enabled Julfan merchants to generate and maintain trust, trustworthiness and uniform norms necessary for collective action and cooperation.

The Role of Categories in Historical Explanation

1959 ◽  
Vol 56 (10) ◽  
pp. 429
Author(s):  
Jerry Stannard
Keyword(s):  
Historical Explanation

The Interrogative Model: Historical Inquiry and Explanation

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-159
Author(s):  
Eric Brook
Keyword(s):  
Main Part ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
Historical Explanation ◽  
Interrogative Model ◽  
Why Questions ◽  
Valuable Role ◽  
Historical Thought ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis article commends Jaakko Hintikka's interrogative model of reasoning as an aid to historiography in relation to historical inquiry and explanation. After an initial discussion of David Hackett Fischer's appeal to the "logic of historical thought" in terms of his overlapping complementary emphases with Hintikka's interrogative model, a critical evaluation is given of Fischer's brief but strong comments regarding the role of why-questions in historical explanation. From there the main part of the article is given over to how the interrogative model provides an account of the nature of explanation in general using Hintikka's recently published work on explanation theory. The theory of explanation that uses the interrogative model is applied to historical explanation and illustrated in the way the interrogative model serves a descriptively-valuable role in historiography by reference to historical inquiry and explanation in Herodotus.

scholarly journals Perkembangan Banjar Belaluan Sadmerta di Kota Denpasar tahun 1957-2017

HUMANIS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Anak Agung Ngurah Putra Udayana ◽  
I Ketut Ardhana
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Research Development ◽  
Historical Explanation ◽  
Regional Autonomy ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Historical Theory

This research choose the development of banjar Belaluan Sadmerta in Denpasar as its topic. There are two questions asked in this research which are, 1)What are factors behind establishment of banjar Belaluan Sadmerta, and 2) How’s the development of banjar Belaluan Sadmerta in socio-cultural, religion, economy and politic in Denpasar within 1957-2017. This research used social history method by Kuntowijoyo, which is used to find out level of development. This research used Historical Theory by Ida Bagus Sidemen which explained, 1) Historical Explanation, 2) Historical Objectivity, 3)Historical Determinism. The theory used as basis in exploring and reconstructing data in this research. Development as concept, defined the development of banjar Belaluan Sadmerta to be perfect in both abstract and concrete forms. In this way, this research was able to produce conclusions from each research questions which then used as conclusion that the establishment of banjar Belaluan Sadmerta was inseparable from the dominant role of a sekaa or group and important society’s figures in its development. Regional autonomy is also an opportunity for the societies to make banjar Belaluan Sadmerta as a place for societies to carry out daily activities.

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