0:36 1900s Movement in Europe 1:28 R.G. Collingwood 3:39 Idealism - Actions are expression of Thought, of Reasons, which Mentality actions. *Themes of Collingwood's Work* 5:37 History IS The Science of Human Nature 7:48 Development of Thought 8:34 [Every Event, Every Action has] Inside and Outside 13:30 Reenacting The Inside of The Past 13:51 A Priori Imagination, Putting oneself in another person's circumstances. 19:55 History Concerns Study of Unique Events, Particularity of Time and People 21:03 Motivation, Criticism 21:31 Historian as Detective 30:06 Religion, Philosophy, Art 32:38 History is Man's Actions and His Choices 34:08 Forced by Prior Human Choices to Act. 35:02 -Historical Progress- Progress is not Grand, it is found in particular fields with solutions. 37:10 Progress in Physics/Mechanics
Thank you for these uploads. I am doing my Masters right now and just started a historiography class. These always seem to come at the right time and can really help to inspire writing
Re: what the professor said at the end about whether the actions of Puritans in the 1600’s was actually driven by Puritan beliefs or if that was just cover. I’d like to know how a historian judges whether or how much the U.S. invaded Iraq because of anger/revenge/patriotism/fear/genuine defense concerns vs. just being about oil, conservative ideology and old fashion desire for power of political elites/rulers? Similar to current Israel military moves in Gaza and now West Bank, how much is driven by same motivations mentioned above? I tend to think nations (really political leaders of nations) are mainly driven by power and material gain but don’t know how much is driven by more abstract concerns like patriotism.
At a buffet, I personally sneak corn into the buffet so others can enjoy them. I hide 6 boiled corn ears in my jacket pockets. It is a joy for me to see other patrons of the establishment eat my corn thinking they were part of the buffet.
I just don't get it ... some of these "philosophers" take what most people would call common sense observations, add some neologisms, mix with plenty of abstractions, fold in some references and allusions ... half-bake the whole mess ... and then serve it up as original, creative theories that dazzle the academics. Truly unbelievable.
Couldn't it be that the natural events are not entirely "without inside", but rather _indirectly_ express the ideas coming from the same realm of spirit, only authored by Wisdom of God? The behavior of individual bees, or patterns of forestation, obviously aren't direct expressions, but the corresponding "structures of being" behind them certainly are.
Joel Barlow observed after the American revolution that what distinguished the new type of man from the old was simply a habit of thinking. The kings and aristocrats of old ruled over others, not because they were necessarily better or wiser, but simply because they were born to govern, it was part of an entire habit or culture of thinking. The new men who made the revolution simply changed their habit of thinking and now saw themselves as self-governors, which didn't mean they were necessarily any better or wiser than before. As a man thinketh, so he is. This seems like an idealistic doctrine, but its implications are very much materialistic, because it severs individual men from Man in the abstract or from men as a historical continuity. In the new American democratic republic, the source of government was not succession or inheritance or worthiness, the source of government was the process of self-making in the democratic process itself. In other words, Americans do not have elections because they are free, they are free because they have elections. As Machiavelli perceived, there can be no law of politics that derives from outside the processes of politics itself. America is often interpreted as the only nation based on ideas and documents, but this is the wrong conception of the American revolution. It did not root man to some progressive idea-community, it in fact severed the connection to all ideas. Democratic Man is a divinity unto himself, and that divinity is purely material in the sense that the democratic process is an end in itself. Walt Whitman perceived this divinity as an incarnate divinity, which he praised in his celebration of the human body, the body electric as the body politic. Of course, American society today has degenerated into a new national-imperial religion, the American revolution has become pure Idea. Democracy in America died a long time ago, but its material corpse lives on "ex opere operato" through a class of political priests and atheistic money changers.
0:36 1900s Movement in Europe
1:28 R.G. Collingwood
3:39 Idealism - Actions are expression of Thought, of Reasons, which Mentality actions.
*Themes of Collingwood's Work*
5:37 History IS The Science of Human Nature
7:48 Development of Thought
8:34 [Every Event, Every Action has] Inside and Outside
13:30 Reenacting The Inside of The Past
13:51 A Priori Imagination, Putting oneself in another person's circumstances.
19:55 History Concerns Study of Unique Events, Particularity of Time and People
21:03 Motivation, Criticism
21:31 Historian as Detective
30:06 Religion, Philosophy, Art
32:38 History is Man's Actions and His Choices 34:08 Forced by Prior Human Choices to Act.
35:02 -Historical Progress- Progress is not Grand, it is found in particular fields with solutions.
37:10 Progress in Physics/Mechanics
Thanks!
As an immature historian interested in the history of people who did not leave written records this talk has opened doors for me.
Please, let there be 1000 and 1 of these lectures.
So we ARE lucky... Many thanks, from Germany!
Thank you for these uploads. I am doing my Masters right now and just started a historiography class. These always seem to come at the right time and can really help to inspire writing
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR UPLOADING THIS FANTASMABLE LECTURES IF YOU DIDNT THEN I WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO WATCH THEM. THANK YOU AGAIN.
Re: what the professor said at the end about whether the actions of Puritans in the 1600’s was actually driven by Puritan beliefs or if that was just cover. I’d like to know how a historian judges whether or how much the U.S. invaded Iraq because of anger/revenge/patriotism/fear/genuine defense concerns vs. just being about oil, conservative ideology and old fashion desire for power of political elites/rulers?
Similar to current Israel military moves in Gaza and now West Bank, how much is driven by same motivations mentioned above? I tend to think nations (really political leaders of nations) are mainly driven by power and material gain but don’t know how much is driven by more abstract concerns like patriotism.
Thank you.
At a buffet, I personally sneak corn into the buffet so others can enjoy them. I hide 6 boiled corn ears in my jacket pockets. It is a joy for me to see other patrons of the establishment eat my corn thinking they were part of the buffet.
Based and redpilled.
LOL
Absolutely heroic
You should consider carrying seven ears of boiled corn, that way you'd always have a spare, just in case.
Seven ears is too Freudian. Corn is best roasted in their sins. I mean skins.
Darren!
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Thanx
Will there be an episode about Butterfield's "Whig interpretation of history"?
Like Hegel's cynical "end of history," Collingwood's "history is insides" is Collingwood himself.
I just don't get it ... some of these "philosophers" take what most people would call common sense observations, add some neologisms, mix with plenty of abstractions, fold in some references and allusions ... half-bake the whole mess ... and then serve it up as original, creative theories that dazzle the academics. Truly unbelievable.
True. But it's very useful to use these as references when writing our dissertations making use of "common sense".
Couldn't it be that the natural events are not entirely "without inside", but rather _indirectly_ express the ideas coming from the same realm of spirit, only authored by Wisdom of God? The behavior of individual bees, or patterns of forestation, obviously aren't direct expressions, but the corresponding "structures of being" behind them certainly are.
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Joel Barlow observed after the American revolution that what distinguished the new type of man from the old was simply a habit of thinking.
The kings and aristocrats of old ruled over others, not because they were necessarily better or wiser, but simply because they were born to govern, it was part of an entire habit or culture of thinking.
The new men who made the revolution simply changed their habit of thinking and now saw themselves as self-governors, which didn't mean they were necessarily any better or wiser than before.
As a man thinketh, so he is. This seems like an idealistic doctrine, but its implications are very much materialistic, because it severs individual men from Man in the abstract or from men as a historical continuity.
In the new American democratic republic, the source of government was not succession or inheritance or worthiness, the source of government was the process of self-making in the democratic process itself. In other words, Americans do not have elections because they are free, they are free because they have elections.
As Machiavelli perceived, there can be no law of politics that derives from outside the processes of politics itself.
America is often interpreted as the only nation based on ideas and documents, but this is the wrong conception of the American revolution. It did not root man to some progressive idea-community, it in fact severed the connection to all ideas.
Democratic Man is a divinity unto himself, and that divinity is purely material in the sense that the democratic process is an end in itself. Walt Whitman perceived this divinity as an incarnate divinity, which he praised in his celebration of the human body, the body electric as the body politic.
Of course, American society today has degenerated into a new national-imperial religion, the American revolution has become pure Idea. Democracy in America died a long time ago, but its material corpse lives on "ex opere operato" through a class of political priests and atheistic money changers.