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Leopold von Ranke on Sense - Dictionary of Arguments
Gadamer I 210 Sense/History/Effect/Ranke/Gadamer: What has become is not easy to overturn. In this respect it is "the basis of all newly emerging activity"(1), as Ranke says, and yet it is itself something that has become by activity. By insisting on the basis of what has become, it forms the new activity into the unity of an interrelation. Ranke says: "What has become constitutes the interrelation with what is becoming". Gadamer: This very unclear sentence obviously wants to express what constitutes the historical reality: that what is becoming is free, but the freedom from which it is becoming is in each case determined by what has become, i.e. the circumstances into which it acts, finds its limitations. The terms used by historians, such as force, power, determining tendency, etc., all seek to make visible the essence of historical being by implying that the idea in history Gadamer I 211 always finds only an incomplete representation. It is not the plans and views of the actors that represent the meaning of the happenings, but the historical effects that make the historical forces visible. The historical forces, which are the actual carriers of historical development, are not like the monadic subjectivity of the individual. Rather, all individuation is itself already shaped by the opposing reality, and precisely for this reason individuality is not subjectivity but living forces. The states are also such living forces for Ranke. He expressly said of them that they are not "departments of the general" but individualities, "real spiritual beings"(2). Ranke calls them "thoughts of God" to indicate that it is the own vital force of these entities that lets them be real, and not some human setting and wanting or a plan that can be seen by humans. >History, >History/Ranke, >Historiography, >World History, >Universal History. 1. Ranke, Weltgeschichte IX, Xlllf. 2. Ranke, Das politische Gespräch (ed. Rothacker), S. 19, 22, 25._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Ranke, Leopold von Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-27