What is history according to WH Walsh?

Here is what Walsh refers to as the “standard idealist account of historical knowledge”: History, because it offers a body of knowledge methodically arrived at, is a science; but it is a science of a peculiar kind. It is not an abstract but a concrete science, and it terminates not in general but in individual truths.

What is your philosophy of history?

Philosophy of history, the study either of the historical process and its development or of the methods used by historians to understand their material.

What is the best history of philosophy?

John Marenbon’s top 10 books on philosophy

1. A Brief History of Western Philosophy by Anthony Kenny.
2. Philosophy 1 edited by AC Grayling.
3. Contingency, Irony and Solidarity by Richard Rorty.
4. The Republic by Plato.
5. Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle (trans Terence Irwin)
6. Selected Writings by St Thomas Aquinas (ed R McInerny)

What is speculative history philosophy?

Speculative philosophy of history is concerned with history as a whole, which includes explicitly relating the past to the present and the present to the future. This is especially evident when such claims include consideration of the future, which as not yet having come to pass remains unknown and unknowable.

When did w.h.walsh publish his philosophy of history?

W. H. Walsh’s Philosophy of History (Walsh 1960 [1951]), first published in 1951 and revised in 1960, is an open-minded and well grounded effort to provide an in-depth presentation of the field that crosses the separation between continental and analytical philosophy.

Who was w.h.walsh influenced by?

An Oxford philosopher evidently trained in modern philosophy, Walsh was strongly influenced by Collingwood and was well aware of the European idealist tradition of philosophical thinking about history, including Rickert, Dilthey, and Croce, and he treats this tradition in a serious way.

Who is w.h.walsh an expert on?

Walsh is plainly an expert on the history of modern philosophy, including especially German philosophy. This means that he has read, and thought about, the tradition from Kant and Schleiermacher and Herder to Hegel and Dilthey, and is able to make philosophical sense of their theories.

When was the introduction to the philosophy of History published?

An Introduction, first published in 1951 and revised in 1960, is an open-minded and very well grounded effort to provide an in-depth presentation of the field. The book attempts to treat both major aspects of the philosophy of history: the nature of historical knowledge and the possibility of gaining “metaphysical” knowledge about history.