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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2009
The treatment of history by philosophers seems to have entered upon a new phase, as regards the questions both what kind of knowledge we are dealing with and what is the relation of the historic experience to reality. As Professor Guido de Ruggiero pointed out in the April number of the Journal, this interest in the problems of history has not received much recognition in English thought at present. It is the purpose of the argument of the present article to maintain that whilst there are two methods of approach to reality, the one through knowledge and speculative thought, the other through history and practical experience, a philosophical interpretation is necessary to the understanding of history, though philosophies of history as usually conceived are not possible. The dualism of experience to which reference is here made is not identical with the dualism with which Professor de Ruggiero is concerned.
page 472 note 1 The present article was all but completed before I had seen Professor de Ruggiero's important article.
page 473 note 1 Cf. Identité et Réalité, and De I'Explication dans les Sciences.
page 473 note 2 The Nature of Existence, vol. ii, bk. v, chap, xxxvi.
page 474 note 1 Process and Reality, Part II, chap. i, sect. v.
page 474 note 2 Ibid., Part II, chap. vii, sect. v.
page 475 note 1 Theory and History of Historiography, Part I, sect, i, translated by Douglas Ainslie.
page 477 note 1 Op. cit., Part I, sect. iii.
page 477 note 2 What is Living and What is Dead in the Philosophy of Hegel, Part V, translated by Douglas Ainslie.
page 477 note 3 Theory of Mind as Pure Act, translated by H. Wildon Carr.
page 478 note 1 The Nature of Existence, vol. ii, bk. v, chap, xxxvi.
page 479 note 1 Gesammelte Schriften, I Band, p. 86.
page 483 note 1 The Right and the Good.
page 483 note 2 So characterized by Max Dessoir in his Æsthetik.