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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Universal history"”.
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Ephorus, ideal communities, and Greece : philosophical themes in a universal history
… however, is unfair to Ephorus and his History. Analysis of the fragments does not reveal an explicitly moral purpose to his work, thus he must be freed from the negative implications that such a purpose entails. Nevertheless, as this study will demonstrate, Ephorus did have a concept of …
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The fate of universal history: on the task of philosophy of history between Kant and Benjamin
… inheritance of the idealist theory of universal history that descends from Immanuel Kant through Early German Romanticism to Walter Benjamin. I show that the division between the idealist and the materialist interpretations of universal history results from their methodologically …
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The English Gawain
"The history of a people can be read truly only in the light of its ideals." This statement from Constance Rummons’ Ethnic Ideals of the British Isles holds the key to our interest in the people of a past age. Our concern is not with the bare chronicles of dates and events, but with the striving …
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Augustine's Method of Teaching Religion
… return to his idea that both Bible and Church history to the present period should be taught on the level of the pupil and only to the degree that the material could be absorbed. From this plan of teaching religion on the basis of universal history Augustine produced in the De Catechizandis …
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Sicily's Artful Historian: An investigation into the historical thought and method of Diodorus Siculus
… ideas about historiography, particularly universal history. This allows an attempt to elucidate Diodorus’ own contribution to the version of the past narrated in the Bibliotheke. A third section will argue that the events of his own day and the relative position of Sicily within that world …
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Chronographia and Imperium: continuing the chronicle tradition of Eusebius-Jerome and Sigebert of Gembloux in twelfth-century Normandy
The Eusebius-Jeromian tradition of universal chronicle, as transmitted in twelfth-century Normandy via Sigebert of Gembloux, embodied an understanding of time (chronographia) as framed by the succession of the political order (imperium). Whereas earlier scholars attributed the twelfth-century …
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Politics, history, critique: An interpretation of Kant's political philosophy in light of his critical-regulative method.
… <p>1)I will demonstrate that Kant's essays on history and politics are not dogmatic, unimportant, or of minor significance, but employ a critical principle of teleology, following on the critical-regulative method developed in the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of Judgement.</p> <p>2) …
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THE APPROPRIATION OF ISLAMIC HISTORY AND AHL AL-BAYTISM IN OTTOMAN HISTORICAL WRITING, 1300-1650
… deal directly with narratives of early Islamic history. It specifically deals with the representations of the formative events of early Islamic history. Through the lenses of universal histories, biographies of Muhammad, religious treatieses and other narrative sources, this study examines …
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Views from the Other Side: Colonial Culture and Anti-Colonial Sentiment in Germany Around 1800
… writing, popular drama, and the philosophy of history all manifest an obsession with thinking about forms of cultural difference. In many cases, such efforts are wrought with ambivalence. The German world traveler Georg Forster is torn between the passionate admiration for a paradise-like …
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Erdély zsidó közösségei a kezdetektől napjainkig a temetők tükrében
… today and ca n thus be subject to research. The history of the Transylvanian Jewish communities is part of both Hungarian and Romanian history, which partly explains its un iqueness. Six major periods can be distinguished int he history of the Transylvanian Jewry. They are determined by turn ing …