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Philosophers on the Meaning of History
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Vico
History is a recurring cycle of corsi and ricorsi (progress and return).
Comte
History develops in three stages: theological, metaphysical, and positive.
Arendt
History is the story of human actions, particularly the unexpected and new.
Husserl
History is the intersubjective development of human consciousness.
Popper
Rejects historicism and believes in an open society where history is not predetermined.
Croce
History is the history of liberty and the expression of the spirit.
Bloch
History should consider the 'possible' and the unrealized in past societies.
Hobbes
History shows the need for a strong central authority to avoid the brutal 'state of nature'.
Heidegger
History is the unfolding of being and time, revealing the structures of Dasein's existence.
Herder
History is the organic and cultural development of peoples and nations.
Marx
History is the history of class struggles leading to a classless society.
Collingwood
History is the process of reconstructing the thoughts and experiences of past people.
Dilthey
History is the understanding of the lived experience through hermeneutics.
White
History is shaped by the narrative choices historians make, thus it has a literary aspect.
Voltaire
History is a record of the crimes and follies of mankind.
Fukuyama
History may have ended with the universalization of Western liberal democracy.
Kant
History is the process of humanity's moral progress and the realization of human freedom.
Ricoeur
History combines narrative understanding and analytical explanation.
Hegel
History is a dialectical process leading to the realization of Absolute Spirit.
Nietzsche
History should serve life and the cultivation of the Ubermensch.
Braudel
History is a multilayered structure, where long-term geographical and social structures shape events.
Spengler
History is a cycle of birth, growth, decay, and death of civilizations.
Toynbee
Civilizations rise and fall based on their response to challenges.
Foucault
History is shaped by the discourse of power relationships.
Gadamer
History is an ongoing dialogue with tradition through hermeneutic understanding.
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