By William M. Johnston

ISBN-10: 9401186782

ISBN-13: 9789401186780

Collingwood and Hegel R. G. Collingwood used to be a lonely philosopher. Begrudgingly in demand by way of a few and bludgeoned by means of others, he did not teach a unmarried disciple, simply as he did not converse to the examining public his imaginative and prescient of the solidarity of expertise. This failure stands in stark distinction to the good fortune of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who received many disciples to a really comparable point-of-view and whose impact on next suggestion, having been rediscovered considering that 1920, has no longer but been thoroughly explored. Collingwood and Hegel percentage 3 basic similarities: either males held overwhelming admiration of the Greeks, either possessed uniquely huge wisdom of educational controversies in their day, and either have been inalterably confident that human adventure consti­ tutes a unmarried complete. If specialists locate Collingwood's imaginative and prescient of wholeness much less passable than Hegel's, a lot of the fault lies within the surroundings within which Col­ lingwood worked. Oxford within the 1920'S and 1930's, sceptical and really expert, was once no longer the enthusiastic Heidelberg and Berlin of 1816 to 183I. what's vital in Collingwood isn't that he fell in need of Hegel yet that operating less than antagonistic stipulations he got here so elose. certainly these strange with Hegel will locate in Collingwood's early works, specifically in Speculum M entis, an invaluable creation to the good German.

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