Metaphysics as a subfield in History: The concept of absolute presuppositions in R.G. Collingwood

Authors

  • Gustavo Freitas Pereira

Keywords:

Philosophy of History, Metaphysics, Collingwood

Abstract

By the end of the ’1930s the British historian and philosopher R.G. Collingwood (1889-1943) presented a defense of Metaphysics against the attacks of Analytic Philosophy. The perspective of positivism, as present in authors such as A.J. Ayer, Bertrand Russell and L. Wittgenstein, involved an attempt to solve the problems of Western intellectual tradition through a linguistic and formal approach. In An Essay on Metaphysics (1940) Collingwood tries to retrieve the pertinence of Metaphysics as an essential philosophical problem by relating it to history and highlighting the idea of absolute presuppositions. This article discusses the main developments of this view and explores its basics implications.

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Published

2013-09-13

How to Cite

PEREIRA, G. F. Metaphysics as a subfield in History: The concept of absolute presuppositions in R.G. Collingwood. Controvérsia (UNISINOS) - ISSN 1808-5253, São Leopoldo, v. 6, n. 3, p. 68–76, 2013. Disponível em: https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/controversia/article/view/5213. Acesso em: 30 apr. 2025.

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Vol. 6 No. 3 (2010)

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