Philosophy of history: Seven visions of the twentieth century

Abstract

This essay inteds to aproach the Philosophy of History through seven conceptual experiences. The approaches we will consider are circumscribed to the work of some historians and philosophers of the Twentieth Century. The authors considered in this investigation are Johan Huizinga, R. G. Collingwood, Karl Popper, Fernand Braudel, Isaías Berlin, Michael Oakeshott, and Edward Carr. Our purpose is to adjust the authors' methods and to analyze those theoretical-practical scopes that promote the emergence of philosophical and historical criteria for interpreting past events.