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47 Human Action and Historical Time ALGIS MICKUNAS Ohio University Contemporary European thought is developing a new approach to his- tory based on the concepts of phenomenological time experience and her- meneutical understanding. While the concept of phenomenological time experience provides a new temporal structure for Philosophy of History, that of hermeneutical understanding introduces a historical depth to any contemporaneously assumed truth. Hence the experience of time and her- meneutics are closely related in the emergent Philosophy of History. Yet such a new approach can best be understood on a background of a serious critique of major attempts and failures to establish a viable Philosophy of History. Twentieth century thought provides two such major attempts. Although from divergent viewpoints, they reach the conclusions that on the one hand Philosophy of History is impossible and on the other that it is undesirable. The prior thesis is offered by K. Loewith, the latter by H. Kesting. First let us survey K. Loewith's thesis. The Meaning and Aim of History. Loewith's work presents various attempts to establish a Philosophy of History beginning with Judaic prophets and their systematizers such as Joachim of Floris, moving through such Christian thinkers as St. Augustine,
Research in Phenomenology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1976
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