This is first-of-a-kind thematic study on the emergence and development of the European philosophy of history.
The philosophic views of Voltaire, Iselin, Herder, Kant, Montesquieu, Gobineau, Chamberlain, Schiller, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche, Spengler, Toynbee, Schmitt and many other authors are followed.
Particular attention is paid to the German idealistic philosophy of 18th-19th century history, based on Christian theological foundations. Fichte has a central role with his teachings of ideas as self-sacrificing creative life, luminous in the chosen people, leading the others for great and sublime historical deeds. Fichte's first conceived the national philosophy of history at European level. Without it, the German romanticism and the absolutism of Schelling and Hegel would be impossible.
The dignity of the present study is in the tracing of the interrelations between the philosophy of history, the theory of history and the history of philosophy.
Recommended for historians, philosophers, lawyers, culturalologists, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, students and readers with cultivated interests.
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