Historiography, 300A

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Remember: The Discipline of History is also a Product of History. History is not ahistorical!

Terms, 300A Names

Intelligibility Herodotus

Expansive present Thucydides

Eschatology Plato

Teleology Saint Augustine

Histor/History Giambattista Vico

Methodology Leopold von Ranke

Historicism August Comte

Epistemology Karl Marx

Objectivity Oswald Spengler

Dialectical materialism Arnold Toynbee

Positivism/Idealism Sigmund Freud

Robin Collingwood

There are three basic views George Herbert Spencer

of historical direction: Fernand Braudel

Cyclical Charles Darwin

Providential

Progressive (linear or spiral)

"Objectivity Question"

Modernism

"New History"

"Annales School"