Does Hegel have a Philosophy of History?

O’Brien, George

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“…Too often the morals of historical lessons are already predetermined by the pragmatic historian’s interests and conditions in her present, not by the “universality” of world history. As George Dennis O’Brien summarizes, such historical work risks “turn[ing] out to be a piece of the historian’s biography now ‘mediated’ opaquely through opinions on other people’s lives and times rather than in the ‘immediacy’ of autobiography” (O’Brien, 1971: 308). Hence to Hegel, “nothing is more shallow in this respect than the oft-repeated appeal to Greek and Roman examples during the French Revolution” (Hegel, 1953: 8).…”

Section: Realism and Shklar’s Historical Attentivenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Historical memory, democratic citizenship, and political theory: Reconstructing a historical method in Judith Shklar’s writings

Luo

2021

European Journal of Political Theory

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Judith Shklar has been invoked by contemporary realists as an example of how history is a better source of political knowledge than abstract philosophy. This emphasis on history challenges the predominant understanding of her political theory that stresses the universality of fear of cruelty. This contrast between history and moral universalism invites a serious investigation of Shklar's historical method. This article takes up this task by reconstructing a Shklarian historical method based on a tripartite relation between historical memory, democratic citizenship, and historically minded political theory. This reconstructed historical method challenges the boundaries of Shklar's liberalism and broadens the possibilities that her political theory can offer.

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Section: Realism and Shklar’s Historical Attentivenessmentioning

confidence: 99%