The Philosophy of History With Reflections and Aphorisms

, by Miller, John William

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ISBN: 9780393014648 | 0393014649
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/1/1981

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These essays, deceptively modest in phrasing, address current and historic issues. They speak to anyone who has been baffled by the old conflict between personal freedom and casual order.

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Preface	p. 9
The Utility of Historical Study	p. 13
Motives	p. 18
Explanation	p. 23
Cause	p. 27
Purpose	p. 32
Psychology	p. 37
Accidents	p. 40
The Static Ideal	p. 44
Mistrust of Time	p. 51
Alliance with Time	p. 61
A Victory Is in Time	p. 66
The Sense of Time	p. 70
Time and Immediacy	p. 74
The Sense of History	p. 80
The Simultaneous and the Successive	p. 87
Memory and Morals	p. 91
Memory and the Humanities	p. 95
The Past as an Influence	p. 98
Memory as Control	p. 100
Prediction	p. 102
Documentation	p. 107
The "Referent" of a Statement in History	p. 116
The Facts	p. 123
Order and Disorder	p. 127
The Common and the Unique	p. 130
Action and Immediacy	p. 136
The Free Act	p. 139
Power	p. 142
Might and Right	p. 144
Action Is Inherently Historical	p. 147
Myth and Error	p. 151
Myth and Control	p. 157
The Role of the Actual	p. 165
Judgment	p. 168
Reflections and Aphorisms	p. 174
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The Philosophy of History With Reflections and Aphorisms

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