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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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Hans-Georg Gadamer on History - Dictionary of Arguments

I 204
History/Gadamer: There are many ways to think of history from a standard beyond itself.
Humboldt: Wilhelm von Humboldt's classicism sees history as the loss and decay of the perfection of Greek life.
Goethe's time: The Gnostic historical theology of Goethe's time, the influence of which
Gadamer I 205
on the young Ranke was recently depicted(1), thinks of the future as the restoration of a lost perfection of primeval times.
>History/Winckelmann
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Hegel: Hegel reconciled the aesthetic exemplariness of classical antiquity with the self-consciousness of the present by describing the >Kunstreligion (art religion) of the Greeks as an overcome figure of the mind and proclaiming in the general self-consciousness of freedom the completion of history in the present. All these are forms of thinking history that presuppose a standard outside history.
GadamerVs: Meanwhile, even the denial of such an a priori, unhistorical standard, which stands at the beginning of the 19th century historical research, is not as free of metaphysical presuppositions as it believes itself to be and as it claims to be when it sees itself as scientific research. This can be seen in the analysis of the leading concepts of this historical world view. Admittedly, these concepts are, according to their own intention, aimed precisely at correcting the prior decision of an aprioristic construction of history. But by polemically opposing the idealistic concept of the mind, they remain related to it. >History/Dilthey, >Enlightenment/Herder.
I 281
History/Gadamer: In truth, history does not belong to us, but we belong to it. Long before we understand ourselves in the recollection, we understand ourselves self-evident wise in family, society and state in which we live. The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror. The self-contemplation of the individual is only a flickering in the closed circuit of historical life. Therefore the prejudices of the individual are much more the historical reality of his or her being than his or her judgements.
>Prejudice/Gadamer, >Hermeneutics/Gadamer, >Understanding/Gadamer.

1. C. Hinrichs, Ranke und die Geschichtstheologie der Goethezeit (1954). Cf. my
notes in Philos. Rundschau 4, S. 123ff.

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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.

Gadamer I
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010

Gadamer II
H. G. Gadamer
The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986
German Edition:
Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977


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