A personalist philosophy of history /
Historical study has traditionally been built around the placement of the human at the center of inquiry. The destabilized concepts of the human in contemporary thought challenge this configuration. However, the ways in which these challenges provoke new historical perspectives both expands and enri...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Series: | Routledge approaches to history.
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| Summary: | Historical study has traditionally been built around the placement of the human at the center of inquiry. The destabilized concepts of the human in contemporary thought challenge this configuration. However, the ways in which these challenges provoke new historical perspectives both expands and enriches historical study but are also weak and vulnerable in their concept of the human, lacking or omitting something valuable in our self-understanding. A Personalist Philosophy of History argues for a robust concept of personhood in our experience of the past as a way to resolve this conflict. Focused on those who know history, rather than on the abstract properties of knowledge, it extends the moral agency of persons into non-human, trams-human and deep history domains. It describes an approach to moral life through historical experience and study, rather than through abstractions. And it describes a kind of historiography that matches factual accuracy to both the constructed nature of understanding and to unavoidable moral purpose. |
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| Physical Description: | 216 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-211) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780815379256 0815379250 |