Some thoughs about the history of "Philosophy of History" /part 5/

in #godflesh6 years ago (edited)

Differentiation of reality has created a differentiation of the means of expression. The undisturbed sounds modeled a split-spoken speech as the individual syllables and words emerged to identify the new activities and objects. These changes eventually led to the transformation of the pre-human into human and animal to human society. With this fact, the human history has also started. The similar between this and theological concept is "rift", but here it is between man and nature, while in the theological was man and God. These are three of the most common versions of human origin. Science shares the third naturalist concept.

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The question of the determinants of historical life

It is a matter of the factors on which the state of society and the development of society depend. In the development of philosophical-historical thought, there are various answers to this question. One is linked to the so-called geographic direction or so-called. geographic determinism.

Geographical Determinism.

Its characteristic feature is the absolutization of overestimation, the generalization of the role of geographic conditions in the social life of people. For him, the geographic conditions as a whole or their individual components (climate, soil, landscape, hydrosphere, etc.) are the main determinants of every society. This attitude and formulation emerged in the Age of Enlightenment and represents the first attempt to overcome theology in the sphere of social science and to impose rationalism in its place. Its beginning (of this type of explanation) can be found in the 14th and 15th centuries in the philosophical and historical views of Ib Haldum. For him, the main factor on which depends the state and the development of society is the climate.

It divides the land into seven climatic areas, each of which determines the lives and mores of its inhabitants. For him, the most favorable for the development of civilization is the fourth climatic region and its third adjacent third from the south and fifth from the north. The other areas considered Haldum to be characterized as ineligible in the sense that 2 and 1 areas are too hot and 6 and 7 are too cold. A distinctive feature of moderate areas (3, 4, 5) is that all science, crafts, buildings, clothes, food and even animals carry the mark of moderation. People in these areas have moderate body, skin color, religion and morals. They live in houses built of stone and adorned with skill. The crafts are highly developed and use the two precious metals: gold and silver.

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