Word: evolutionism
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Schopenhauer marks the transition to the modern method of thought-from romantic idealism to modern realism. He was a naturalist who studied nature only to find out in it the expressions of divine will. Hegel built up an inadequate but interesting philosophy of history, trying to explain on a Kantian...
To arrive at this doctrine required the historical study of the world. Formerly nature, as it is, was the object of thought; everything was regarded as eternal and fixed; now it is the growth and change which fascinates our attention. The rights of man, in the light of the theory...
Between 1815 and 1835 there was a great deepening of interest in the study of history. Darwin's great achievement was the spreading of the historical idea far beyond the limits of humanity. His "Origin of Species" (1859) was not the first exponent of the evolution but only one grand...
6. The True Problem of the Philosophy of Evolution.
[The growth of the modern historical movement can be best suggested by the following incomplete list of abbreviated titles of "epochmaking" books, pioneer in very various departments of research. Such works mark the increasingly extended application of the historical method, with its accompanying idea of Evolution. to more and more...