Universal History
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Universal History
Original language description
In this text, I deal with Universal History as a specific form of substantive philosophy of history that distinguishes itself from the historical sciences through certain ontological, epistemic, and formal principles. Ontologically, Universal History sees history as single whole that is unified by some unfolding principle that strives towards an end. This end is the Meaning of history, and the process towards it is to be represented in the form of a single interconnected story. Epistemically, universal historians use non-historiographic, a-priori, and introspective methods to establish these characteristics and the supposed Meaning of history. In particular, I discuss the theories of history of Saint Augustine and Bossuet, Kant and Schiller, and Big History different forms of Universal History (theological, Enlightenment, supposedly scientific). What they all have in common is that as Universal History they are not based on the evidentiary methods of the modern historical sciences and therefore do not produce knowledge of the past. Big History, though, is not just a form of Universal History, it also constitutes a proper historiographic approach and research programme.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
O - Projekt operacniho programu
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences and Big History
ISBN
978-1-3504-0919-4
Number of pages of the result
18
Pages from-to
137-154
Number of pages of the book
504
Publisher name
Bloomsbury Academic
Place of publication
London
UT code for WoS chapter
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