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Joachim of Flora
culmination of Christian philosophy of history / origination of modern philosophy of history
pp. 89-126
Abstract
Between the Eighteenth and Thirteenth Centuries there was no original and characteristically European historical thinking (Heer, 1953, p. 80). Lessing formulated sharply the gulf carved out by the Eighteenth Century between truths of reason and truths of fact: the former are necessary, timeless-eternal, the latter contingent, temporal, and historical in nature.1 But the same Lessing wrote the Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts (The Education of the Human Race), published in part in 1777 and completed in 1780, which marks a turning point in the thought of the Enlightenment. The Education contains the first sign of a serious challenge to the Enlightenment, that is, to the bifurcation between reason and history. Its interest far transcends its intrinsic merit by translating revolutionary concepts from the Twelfth Century into the Nineteenth, in the work of Schelling and Hegel.
Publication details
Published in:
Murray Michael (1970) Modern philosophy of history: its origin and destination. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 89-126
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-3177-6_4
Full citation:
Murray Michael (1970) Joachim of Flora: culmination of Christian philosophy of history / origination of modern philosophy of history, In: Modern philosophy of history, Dordrecht, Springer, 89–126.