The Philosophy of History in France and French Belgium and Switzerland

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Blackwood & sons, 1893 - 706 páginas

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I
69
Vernacular chronicles
73
Tabari
79
Masudi
80
progress in the Oriental world
87
ity and the idea of progress
96
acon
102
vices of Greece to the cause of human unity
109
Consideration of objections to
128
reatment of women in relation to the growth of liberty
130
V
136
e defects of the Platonic ideal
144
Aristotle clearly recognised the political significance of history
146
sketch of his career
157
On the law course and phases of history
167
THE PROGRESS OF HISTORIOGRAPHY
175
Place to be assigned to Commines
181
Pasquiers Researches
187
s the first French writer who took a philosophical survey
190
gnition of progress in history
196
APTER IIHISTORIOGRAPHY AND HISTORICAL
202
Bayles influence upon historiography
209
ea of progress in Pascal Perrault Fontenelle c
212
II
216
ncritical use of the Biblical narrative
220
Attempted to explain the causes of the rise and fall of empires
222
justice only to the Christian element in history
229
Iuths defence of Buckle considered
233
GENERAL SURVEY MONTESQUIEU TURGOT
235
Characteristics of this philosophy
241
His researches in ancient chronology geography philosophy
247
Beaufort
253
Beaufort
260
II
262
The central conception of the Esprit des Lois
266
26
273
His defective method led him to exaggerate the influence
274
He proved and applied the principle that the course of human
276
ced the economical element into historical science
277
ndity comprehensiveness and consistency of his view
283
gious belief has influenced historical speculation
288
IV
289
of it
295
Rousseaus character and influence
307
How Rousseaus tenets affected social speculation and practice
313
Mablys character and beliefs
315
Represented intellectual progress as entirely dependent upon
319
II
325
He maintained the direction of progress to be towards
331
Walckenaers Essay on the History of Humanity
339
GENERAL
340
ise of Romanticism in literature
343
In all these changes France was affected by the general movement
346
riands writings and influence
351
Augustin Thierry almost perfected historiography as a literary art
353
And by Guizot 532
354
story of the Consulate of the Empire marred by intensity
358
French historical workers of the nineteenth century
359
ayreville on historical methodology
364
THE ULTRAMONTANIST AND LIBERAL
366
ounded upon their theory of the origin and nature of language
372
assional attraction
411
Divided history into four great periods
412
The three latter periods
419
logy
420
His views on the methods of the science of history
425
stimate of his work
429
His Refutation of Eclecticism
431
ce
436
Proudhons character and influence
437
progress as the selfjustification of humanity under
442
Held an extreme view of the allsufficiency of moral
443
cism of his three socalled laws
448
CALLED ECLECTIC AND DOCTRINARIAN HIS
452
He errs in substituting human reason for human nature
453
He errs in substituting human reason for human nature
458
His distribution of history into the three epochs of the infinite
465
The theory of nations examined
471
II
480
How far it is inconclusive
486
Guizots character and career
492
Holds French civilisation to be the type or model of European
498
This opinion shown to be illusory
499
nguishes ancient from modern civilisation
504
The absolute origin of historical philosophy cannot be discovered
509
His proof of the existence of historical science
510
firms the existence of intellectual progress but denies
512
Caro on progress and on historical philosophy
516
V
519
national tendencies and characteristics more clearly dis
520
His fears for the selfarrestment of democracy were exemplified
522
volutionism
525
published separately although they have a common
526
Lavollée
528
His History of France
533
It wants scientific precision
541
How political disquisition leads to historical speculation
546
Maintains that religion is the generative principle of civilisation
547
The merits and defects of his Revolution
554
Quinets prophecy of the future of humanity
561
Democratic writers attempt to discredit the dominant Cæsarism
567
NATURALISM AND POSITIVISM
575
He was virtually ignorant of German philosophy
582
The three chief laws regulative of human evolution
596
Attempts to prove the unity of Comtes life and doctrine have been
608
His treatment of facts inconsistent until it involved him in obvious
614
Spread of the positivist spirit
620
The characteristics of his mental organisation
626
Asserts the correlation of the component parts of civilisation
632
How far his History of English Literature accomplished
633
Véron Mougeolle and Bourdeau
639
His historical philosophy is critical not speculative
646
The value of Cournots work
654
The primary capacities which Renouvier attributes to the first men
660
Describes progress as possible but neither continuous nor necessary
666
His influence
672
In his Cours he adopts the Krausean philosophy of history in
678
Its delineation of the working of divine Providence in history is
684
Moellers philosophy of history is in the main a theodicy based
690
Father de Smedts Principles of Historical Criticism
696
The intellectual position of Frenchspeaking Switzerland
697
The critical method of his Two Cities
703

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