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Timepiece of Humanity - philosophy of history
1997.07.23
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Timepiece of Humanity - philosophy of history
1997.07.23
In doing research for The Body, Imagination, and Architecture, I came upon a reference to St. Augustine's The City of God, and, after reading a short statement about it within Encyclopedia Britannica, it seems I should read the book. Encyclopedia Britannica mentions that The City of God might be a form of philosophy of history, but is more likely a religiously oriented text. Apparently, The City of God speaks of the whole story of humanity from beginning to end and unabashedly leads to the conclusion of predestination. These are issues that wholiy apply to the Timepiece.
I have to start doing serious research into the philosophy of history. I just looked up "philsophy of history" in Encyclopedia Britannica. Here's a list of the authors (and sometimes titles) mentioned within Encyclopedia Britannica:
Augustine, The City of God
A.J. Toynbee, An Historian's Approach to Religion, and A Study of History
J.B. Bossuet
Condillac
Cordorcet, Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind
Comte
J.S. Mill
Marx
Engels
Jacob Burckhardt
Giambattista Vico, The New Science
J.G. von Herder
Wilhelm Dilthey
Benedetto Croce
R.G. Collingwood. An Autobiography, and The Idea of History
G.W.F. Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History
W.H. Walsh, Introduction to the Philosophy of History
I. Berlin, Historical Inevitability
K.R. Popper, The Poverty of Historicism
P. Gardener, Theories of History
H. Meyerhoff, The Philosophy of History in Our Time
I will be looking at all these works to form a background and introduction to the Timepiece. If anything, I hope research into the philosophy of history will lead to a right and proper explanation of the theory of chronosomatics.
The reference to Vico within "Philosophy of History" sheds some light on Piranesi's Campo Marzio (and how he may have approached designing it).
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