TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Bossuet on Particular Providence and Nominalism

Friday 27 September 2024 is the 397th anniversary of the birth of Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet (27 September 1627 – 12 April 1704), who was born in Dijon on this date in 1627, and who came to be known as the Eagle of Meaux, as his diocese was Meaux.

Providential philosophy of history constitutes one of the fundamental divisions of Western philosophy of history, originating with St. Augustine, who was himself the source and origin of philosophy of history in the Western tradition. Bossuet represents a distinctive permutation among providential philosophies of history, emphasizing particular providence over general providence and coupled with universal history and a hint of nominalism.

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TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Hans Reichenbach on the Direction of Time

Thursday 26 September 2024 is the 133rd anniversary of the birth of Hans Reichenbach (26 September 1891 – 09 April 1953), who was born in Hamburg on this date in 1891.

Reichenbach is remembered as a philosopher of science and no one links him to philosophy of history, but he wrote extensively about time, and for any philosophy of history that takes time seriously, there are implications for the philosophy of history. Reichenbach’s conception of time, as a thorough-going scientific account based on the fundamental physics of thermodynamics, provides a rigorous basis for scientific history.

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TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Condorcet and the Progress of the Human Mind

Tuesday 17 September 2024 is the 281st anniversary of the birth of Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, also known as the Marquis of Condorcet, and usually known to posterity simply as Condorcet. He was born in Ribemont in Picardy, on this date in 1743.

Condorcet was a true believer in the Enlightenment creed of the indefinite perfectibility of man, and he wrote a history of humanity to illustrate this progress in the past and to predict continued progress in the future.

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