The ethic of historicism

De Ruggiero, Guido (author) and Wakefield, James (translator) ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1518-4346 2020. The ethic of historicism. Collingwood and British Idealism Studies 26 (1-2) , pp. 249-261.

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Abstract

In this essay, one of four in Problemi della vita morale (1914), de Ruggiero develops a thought he first expressed in La filosofia contemporanea (1912), describing his conception of the historicity of spiritual value, which unifies ‘historical fatalism’ and presentism. Appreciating the courses our cultures, institutions, values and ideas have followed to arrive at their present forms, argues de Ruggiero, grants us a better understanding of ourselves and our relation to the future. We are at once the creators and the products of history. In light of the historicity of the real, we see ourselves and our world in a new way. It falls to us to actualize the reality in which we live.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Cardiff Law & Politics
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General)
Additional Information:	This is a translation by James Wakefield of an essay by Guido de Ruggiero. The original was published in 1914.
Publisher:	Imprint Academic
ISSN:	1744-9413
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	7 April 2025
Date of Acceptance:	2020
Last Modified:	07 Apr 2025 15:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/177392

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