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Chargement... Freedom and History and Other Essays: An Introduction to the Thought of Richard McKeon (édition 1989)par Richard P. McKeon (Auteur), Zahava K. McKeon (Directeur de publication)
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This volume of essays is an important introduction to the thought of one of the twentieth century's most significant yet underappreciated philosophers, Richard McKeon. The originator of philosophical pluralism, McKeon made extraordinary contributions to philosophy, to international relations, and to theory-formation in the communication arts, aesthetics, the organization of knowledge, and the practical sciences. This collection, which includes a philosophical autobiography as well as the out-of-print title essay "Freedom and History" and a previously unpublished essay on "Philosophic Semantics and Philosophic Inquiry," is a testimony to the range and systematic power of McKeon's thinking for the social sciences and the humanities. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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“History is an account of facts and connections of facts….The data of history are selected existential simples, subject to enumeration, but the facts of history are interpreted complexes, stated in propositions. Data are given, but facts are made. There is always a connection in a fact, and there is always a direction in a series of statements of fact. In philosophy or science, inquiry or proof does not always follow the same consequences as the processes it treats. In history, interpretation or account seeks to trace the consequence of occurrences; but the facts depend on the choice among connections, and facts are joined to each other in historical consequences only by preserving connections of meaning which are philosophical consequences....[I]ndividual actions and social occurrences may evolve their meanings and connections against a transcendental background of intelligibility and reality which gives them an organic unity; or against the background of an underlying material structure—physical nature, human nature, ‘natural law’, relations of economic production—which provide them with ‘elements’ and ‘laws’; or in the context of conditioning circumstances—biological, political, social, cultural—which give them circumstantial particularity; or in an interaction of impulsions and repulsions which give them an operational schema. The report of facts in any of these senses connects data by processes and functions. The direction of history depends on what history is about and how processes are conceived.’