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Charles Taylor: So far we have heard mostly negative statements about the philosophy of history. We have heard, for instance, about assumptions which can no longer form a tenable basis for it. So now, at the end, let us try to answer the positive question: what can the philosophy of history be today? Can there still be such a discipline as a meaningful area of study, as a distinctive and fruitful kind of philosophical inquiry? Or, to put it bluntly, who needs philosophy of history? And what could be the philosophy of history today?
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Berlin, I. et al. (1978). Is a Philosophy of History Possible?. In: Yovel, Y. (eds) Philosophy of History and Action. Philosophical Studies Series in Philosophy, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9365-5_17
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