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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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Christianity on History - Dictionary of Arguments

Höffe I 108
History/Christianity/Höffe: Western historical thinking is undergoing a profound transformation [in Christianity] (...), which has resulted in
Höffe I 109
secularized form - almost - still exists today: Contrary to ancient ideas, history is no longer considered a cycle. In its place there is the idea of a linear development, a forward course, a positive progress.
Antiquity: In the political philosophy of the Greeks the course of history plays almost no role, through Christianity, determined as progress, it becomes an integral part of political thought.
Progress/antiquity: The antiquity knows progress theories, these have a regressive, negative character, the progress as regression from an optimum, the golden age, to ever worse epochs.
Progress/Christianity: Christian progress leads to the better, but neither economically nor technically, but rather morally better.
>History/Augustine.


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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.
Christianity
Höffe I
Otfried Höffe
Geschichte des politischen Denkens München 2016


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