Humanities/Philosophy of History

History

Does history have a pattern, a meaning, or only one thing after another?

Ancient Greek
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Roman
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Patristic
Renaissance
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Enlightenment
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Modern German Idealism
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19th Century
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finis

The Reading List

Follow this thread through the primary texts, in the order they enter the conversation.

1. Herodotus,
2. Thucydides, , Book I
3. Tacitus, ; Histories
4. Augustine, , Books XI–XXII
5. Machiavelli,
6. Gibbon, , Chapters 1–3, 15–16, 38
7. Hegel,
8. Marx, The German Ideology; Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
9. Tolstoy, , Epilogues I–II

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