the knowledge.com ™ directory - society - philosophy

Essays on philosophy of history from the Proceedings of the Friesian School. (This site includes summaries of Asian and ancient European philosophies of history).

Site attempts to explain the causes of historical social and cultural change, featuring articles about the discovery of agriculture, the invention of the steam engine, chemistry, and the nature of reality.

Summarizes the works of St. Augustine, Kant, Herder, Hegel, Marx, Spengler and Toynbee.

Explains the Trinitarian philosophy of history, which is based on the proposition that each individual is a balancing trinity of spirit-mind-body.

Imam Baqir al-Sadr's philosophy of history, including comparisons with Western philosophies of history.

Robert Wright summarizes his book "Nonzero: The Logic Of Human Destiny", which uses game theory to develop a philosophy of history.

Summary of William McGaughey's "Five Epochs of Civilization", which splits history into four epochs each centered on a key communication technology. The fifth epoch is his prediction of the future.

Comparison between Jacques Maritain and Nicolas Berdyaev's Christian philosophy of history and their impact on the Christian views of history and of mankind's future.

Philosophy of history by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar - founder of the Progressive Utilization Theory (PROUT) also known as Progressive Socialism.

Ludwig von Mises's book "Theory and History: An interpretation of social and economic evolution", which criticizes historicism, scientism and dialectical materialism.

Works in English by and about José Ortega y Gasset.

Bibliography of many of the major philosophy of history works. Each book mentioned has an explanatory comment.

Compilation of coincidental dates, numbers and names that link historical events.

Andrew Fiala's article in "Essays in Philosophy" about liberal responses to terrorism in terms of philosophy of history.

Addresses the male-centric distortions in the main philosophies of history.

Brief introductory summary of the Philosophy of History.

Links to documents containing Professor Little's application of the philosophy of science's approach to the philosophy of history.

Paul Newall's contribution to the Galilean Library. Introductory summary of the subject.

Extract from Cornelius Castoriadis's "Socialism or Barbarism" proposing that the philosophical roots of Stalinism were present in Marxism and Leninism.

Summary of the historian Geoffrey Elton's philosophy of history.

Articles from authors following the method of objectivity.

Summary of the influential Muslim philosopher's work - in the context of his life experiences.

Article on Karl Jaspers' theory of the Axial Age, which was the time period that laid the foundations of modern society

Review of Lao-Tzu's Tao Te Ching in terms of the West's understanding of Chinese Philosophy.

Summarizes Hayden White's book "Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth Century Europe", which categories 19th Century historians and philosophers of history.

Wikipedia entry for Francis Fukuyama's essay, which challenges the Marxist philosophy of history

Hegel's philosophy of history from a historian's perspective.

Karl Popper's criticism of the belief that history is determined by rules.

Brief introductory summary of the Philosophy of History.

Universal principles of governance in history, based on the concept of individual and group identity, by H. B. Paksoy.

E-text of lectures by George L. Anderson.

M.C. Lemon's introduction to the Philosophy of History, aimed at students of history. Published by the Questia Online Library.

A Russian site (in English) offering a listing of philosophy of history resources worldwide.

Essays about the effects of hierarchical structures on governments, organized religions and corporations.

Al-Islam site's explanation of the (Shi'ite) Islamic philosophy of history.

Critical presentation of Hegel's philosophy of history, Oswald Spengler's "Decline of the West", and August Schleicher's philosophy of language-history

Joseph Fell's summary of John William Miller's philosophy.

Rando's blog, which contains a review of Danto, Gress and Collins's cultural philosophy of history

Review of Umberto Bresciani's book "Reinventing Confucianism"

George Burton Adams' presidential address to the American Historical Association in 1908.

Nathan Davis's "The next stage: society after capitalism", which modifies Historical Materialism to predict a future history.

knowledge.com ™

Knowledge: philosophy of history

See Also:

Links