Philosophy of history
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Philosophy of history is the philosophical study of history and its discipline. The term was coined by the French philosopher Voltaire.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, philosopher of absolute idealism who developed a dialectic conception of history
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher of the great man theory
Karl Marx, founder of Marxism and historical materialism
Historiography
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Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline. By extension, the term historiography is any body of historical work on a particular subj
Philosophy of history
…of history (which Dawood considers something "totally new to his age") and he often referred to it as his "new science", which is now associated with historiography. His historical method also laid the groundwork for the observation of the role of the state, communication, propaganda, and systematic bias in history…
Reproduction of part of a tenth-century copy of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War
Bust of Thucydides, Hellenistic copy of a 4th-century BC work
The Roman bust traditionally identified as Cato the Elder
First page of the Shiji