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History: History is the study of the past, especially the people, events, and trends that have shaped our world. This is about the part of the past that was determined and experienced by consciousness. See also Historiography, Culture.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Vilfredo Pareto on History - Dictionary of Arguments

Brocker I 103
History/Pareto: Pareto (...) saw the essential driving force of history in the affects of humans. These are generally not very changeable. Politics and political sociology would have to take this legality into account if they did not want to lose their reference to reality. See Power/Pareto
, Terminology/Pareto, Emotions/Pareto.
VsPareto: Pareto has been accused of naturalizing social reality and mystifying the irrational. He undoubtedly had anthropological structures in mind that are upstream of consciousness.
ParetoVsPositivism: In this aspect of his work, however, Pareto shows himself above all as a representative of the intellectual movement of the fin de siècle, to which George Sorel, Gustave Le Bon and Sigmund Freud, among others, belonged. This movement was described as a "revolt against positivism" (Hughes 1977, 33) (1) because it brought into play the spontaneity and feelings of the masses against the rationality of planning and progress.
>Positivism.
VsPareto: However, it is not without a certain irony that Pareto himself raised social affects to the scientific object and wanted to surpass positivism by means of the hermeneutic process.
((s) See also Anomalous Monism/Davidson: there are no psychological laws.)
Brocker I 109
History/Progress/Pareto: Pareto shaped the concept of the social elite. According to Pareto, every given society is inherent in a fundamental conflict: that between the ruling elites on the one hand, and the opposing elites on the other. The opposing elites are striving for a change of power and thus an exchange of the ruling elites. This leads to a constant "circulation of the elites" (2)((§ 2042), the actual driving force of social structural change. "History is a cemetery of the elite." (3) See Progress/Pareto.

1. Hughes, Henry Stuart, Consciousness and Society. The Reorientation of European Social Thought 1890-1930, New York
2. Vilfredo Pareto, Trattato di sociologia generale, Florenz 1916. Vilfredo Pareto, Trattato di sociologia generale. Edizione critica a cura di Giovanni Busino, 4 Bände, Turin 1988. Dt.: Vilfredo Paretos System der allgemeinen Soziologie, herausgegeben und übersetzt von Gottfried Eisermann, Stuttgart 1962, § 2042
2. Ibid. § 2053.

Maurizio Bach, Vilfredo Pareto, Allgemeine Soziologie (1916) in: Manfred Brocker (Hg). Geschichte des Politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt/M. 2018.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.
Pareto, Vilfredo
Brocker I
Manfred Brocker
Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert Frankfurt/M. 2018


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