He designed to prepare a body of political doctrines for the. And by this must be understood, not a collection of general observations respecting it, suggested by the study of its records, and proposed to be illustrated by its facts, but universal history. Philosophy of history stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. This article presents the history of philosophy of history from ancient greece to the present, with particular emphases on the variety of 19th century philosophy of. Sibree and published under a creative commons license by our open media. The philosophy of history faculty of social sciences. A puppet in turkish attire and with a hookah in its mouth sat before a. John publication date 1914 topics history philosophy publisher london. The story is told of an automaton constructed in such a way that it could play a winning game of chess, answering each move of an opponent with a countermove. Full text views reflects the number of pdf downloads, pdfs. Links on artificial intelligence and related disciplines. Hegel introduction the subject of this course of lectures is the philosophical history of the world. Lectures on the philosophy of history by hegel, georg wilhelm friedrich, 17701831.
History, philosophy of internet encyclopedia of philosophy. It is therefore unsurprising that philosophers have sometimes turned their attention to efforts to examine history itself and the nature of historical. An english translation of hegels introduction to his lectures on the philosophy of history, based directly on the standard german edition by johannes hoffmeister, first published in 1955. On the concept of history often referred to as theses on the philosophy of history. Philosophy of history is the philosophical study of history and its discipline.
Walter benjamin on the concept of history theses on the. With prefaces by charles hegel and the translator, j. Among these latter may be fairly mentioned the work of a french professor, m. Myller, in his universal history as also in his history of switzerland, had such moral aims in view.