Koselleck and the Problem of Historical Judgment

IF 0.4 3区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Zachary Riebeling
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This article undertakes an exploration of Reinhart Koselleck’s ideas concerning historical knowledge and moral judgment. Koselleck’s position is exemplified by the maxim “knowing is better than knowing better,” declaimed throughout his career. I argue that Koselleck’s separation of knowledge and judgment was unstable, with the prescription to know repeatedly folded into the proscription against knowing better.

This article begins with an analysis of Koselleck’s maxim and the underlying theoretical position that sustained it. I show how the separation resulted from Koselleck’s attempts to delegitimate utopian philosophies of history and to maintain a plurality of possible histories. I also demonstrate how Koselleck’s maxim reveals the centrality of philosophical-historical schemata in current debates about the meaning and utility of the past, and how recognizing the tension between knowledge and judgment can reshape concerns about history and moral judgment. Throughout, I illuminate how Koselleck’s knowledge/judgment problematic is germane to the philosophy of history by reading him alongside R.G. Collingwood and Joan Scott.

科塞勒克与历史判断问题
本文探讨了莱因哈特-科塞勒克关于历史知识和道德判断的观点。科塞勒克的立场体现在他在整个职业生涯中都在宣扬的格言 "知之者不如好知者"。本文首先分析了科塞勒克的格言以及支撑这一格言的基本理论立场。文章首先分析了科塞勒克的格言以及支撑这一格言的基本理论立场。我说明了科塞勒克是如何将乌托邦式的历史哲学合法化并保持可能历史的多元性的。我还展示了科塞勒克的格言如何揭示了哲学-历史图式在当前关于过去的意义和效用的争论中的核心地位,以及认识到知识与判断之间的张力如何能够重塑对历史和道德判断的关注。我将科塞克的知识/判断问题与科林伍德(R.G. Collingwood)和琼-斯科特(Joan Scott)放在一起解读,以此阐明科塞克的知识/判断问题如何与历史哲学密切相关。
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期刊介绍: Philosophy of history is a rapidly expanding area. There is growing interest today in: what constitutes knowledge of the past, the ontology of past events, the relationship of language to the past, and the nature of representations of the past. These interests are distinct from – although connected with – contemporary epistemology, philosophy of science, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and aesthetics. Hence we need a distinct venue in which philosophers can explore these issues. Journal of the Philosophy of History provides such a venue. Ever since neo-Kantianism, philosophy of history has been central to all of philosophy, whether or not particular philosophers recognized its potential significance.
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