The shadow of history over philosophy

R. G. Collingwood

pp. 1-89

in: Nathan Rotenstreich, Philosophy, history and politics, Berlin, Springer, 1976

Abstract

There is a common distinction between two aspects of history: history as the object dealt with and history as the way of dealing with the object. Within the "objective" aspect of history one may distinguish between the attempt to define the object as man and the attempt to define it as process. Within the 'subjective" aspect there is the prevailing tendency to put forward the nature of the method as one employing individual concepts.