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PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS

WITH ALL YOUR MIND

PART ONE: MAPPING THE LANDSCAPE

CHAPTER THREE: THE MOVING IMAGE OF ETERNITY (Part 1)

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The Christian view history as "the record of ________________ movements and their ______________ significance."

William Dray lists several elements that make something HISTORical. Circle the right ones:

History is concerned with the HUMAN past

Natural events or objects are automatically historical

Natural objects and events are historical only if they relate to human beings

History deals with the ACTIVITIES of human beings

An event is historical if it has significance even for just one person

An event is historical if it has societal significance

How does Erich Kahler define history?

According to Kahler are the following statements true or false?

Sheer eternity is historical __________
A sheer happening is not historical __________
To become history, events do NOT have to be related to other events __________
Continuity, coherence is the elementary prerequisite of history __________
This connection of happenings must be related to somebody __________
A perceiving mind is necessary in order to discover the coherence between events __________

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According to Kahler what are the 3 indispensable elements for an event to be considered historical?

Since a perceiving, comprehending mind is necessary for history to exist, is sheer objectivity possible in determining what is and what is not historical?

Kahler goes on to say that the human element in history keeps it from being purely objective. What does he mean by that?

R. G. Collingwood says that an event has both inside and outside elements to it. How does Collingwood use Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon to show both of these 2 elements?

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Is history concerned primarily with the objective, external event?

Ontological Perspectives

What are the three models of the philosophy of history which are logically possible?

What are the 2 possibilities in one's philosophy of history?

If history has meaning, what must exist?

If there is no such center, what does history become?

Systems of the philosophy of history are either "consciously ________________ oriented from some given ____________ or" . . . "are admittedly merely ___________________ in their approach."

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Does scientific rationalism claim that it is objective in its approach to history?

How does Alan Richardson apply the lie of Satan to this approach to history?

Where do we get the concept of world history from?

Greek mythology was interested in what?

Unlike the Greek and Roman gods "the God of the Bible is One who acts __________________ in human history."

Hans-Georg Gadamer says that the concept of world history was possible only when what appeared?

How did he demonstrate that?

What does modern man do with his sense and purpose?

Does this prove that the concept of world history and meaning in history does NOT come from Christianity?

What lies at the foundation of modern historiography?

What is the most important question history has to face?