Posts Tagged ‘history’
Hegel makes some interesting comments, distinctions and criticisms with respect to the respective domains of history and philosophy in the Introduction to the Philosophy of Right:
s3. Montesquieu proclaimed the true historical view, the genuinely philosophical position, namely that legislation both in general and in its particular provisions is to be treated not as something isolated [...]
By no longer treating the posts as a metaphor of the envoi of Being, one can account for what essentially and decisively occurs, everywhere, and including language, thought, science, and everything that conditions them, when the postal structure shifts, Satz if you will, and posits or posts itself otherwise. This is why this history of [...]
