Directory of Philosophy of History Resources

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• About.com FAQ

  http://atheism.about.com/od/philosophybranches/p/History.htm
  Brief introductory summary of the Philosophy of History.

• Christian Philosophy of History

  http://seekingwisdom.com/goubman.htm
  Comparison between Jacques Maritain and Nicolas Berdyaev's Christian philosophy of history and their impact on the Christian views of history and of mankind's future.

• Enlightenment: Objectivist Scholarship

  http://enlightenment.supersaturated.com/essays/subjects/philosophyofhistory.html
  Articles from authors following the method of objectivity.

• Feminist History of Philosophy

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-femhist/
  Addresses the male-centric distortions in the main philosophies of history.

• Five Epochs of Civilization

  http://www.worldhistorysite.com/prediction.html
  Summary of William McGaughey's "Five Epochs of Civilization", which splits history into four epochs each centered on a key communication technology. The fifth epoch is his prediction of the future.

• Forrester, Rochelle

  http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/rochelle.f/index.html
  Site attempts to explain the causes of historical social and cultural change, featuring articles about the discovery of agriculture, the invention of the steam engine, chemistry, and the nature of reality.

• Friesian School's Philosophy of History

  http://www.friesian.com/philhist.htm
  Essays on philosophy of history from the Proceedings of the Friesian School. Summaries of Asian and ancient European philosophies of history.

• Geoffrey Elton's Philosophy of History

  http://www.ucc.ie/chronicon/elton.htm
  Summary of the historian Geoffrey Elton's philosophy of history.

• Hayden White's "Metahistory"

  http://www.lehigh.edu/~ineng/syll/syll-metahistory.html
  Summarizes Hayden White's book "Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth Century Europe", which categories 19th Century historians and philosophers of history.

• Hegel's Philosophy of History

  http://www.historicalinsights.com/dave/hegel.html
  Hegel's philosophy of history from a historian's perspective.

• Ibn Khaldun - Life and Work

  http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ik/klf.htm
  Summary of the influential Muslim philosopher's work - in the context of his life experiences.

• Identities: How Governed, Who Pays?

  http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/paksoy-7/
  Universal principles of governance in history, based on the concept of individual and group identity, by H. B. Paksoy.

• Islamic Philosophy of History

  http://www.al-islam.org/universe/28.htm
  Al-Islam site's explanation of the (Shi'ite) Islamic philosophy of history.

• Karl Popper

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/#Soci
  Karl Popper's criticism of the belief that history is determined by rules.

• Miller, John William

  http://www.williams.edu/resources/miller/philosophy.html
  Joseph Fell's summary of John William Miller's philosophy.

• Philosophers of History

  http://www.history-ontheweb.co.uk/histtheory/histtheory_4.htm
  Summarizes the works of St. Augustine, Kant, Herder, Hegel, Marx, Spengler and Toynbee.

• Philosophy of History Archive

  http://www.nsu.ru/filf/pha/
  A Russian site (in English) offering a listing of philosophy of history resources worldwide.

• Philosophy of History: A Guide for Students

  http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=107554003
  M.C. Lemon's introduction to the Philosophy of History, aimed at students of history. Published by the Questia Online Library.

• Progressive Socialism Philosophy of History

  http://www.prout.org/ChapterTwo.html
  Philosophy of history by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar - founder of the Progressive Utilization Theory (PROUT) also known as Progressive Socialism.

• The End of History and the Last Man - Wikipedia

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Last_Man
  Wikipedia entry for Francis Fukuyama's essay, which challenges the Marxist philosophy of history

• Theory and History

  https://mises.org/library/theory-and-history-interpretation-social-and-economic-evolution
  Ludwig von Mises's book "Theory and History: An interpretation of social and economic evolution", which criticizes historicism, scientism and dialectical materialism.

• UnderstandingSociety

  http://www.changingsociety.org/
  Links to documents containing Professor Daniel Little's application of the philosophy of science's approach to the philosophy of history.

• Variations on a Theme: History as Knowledge of the Past

  http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/anderson/
  E-text of lectures by George L. Anderson.

• Wikipedia Definition

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_history
  Brief introductory summary of the Philosophy of History.

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