R.G. Collingwood (Author of The Idea of History)

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R.G. Collingwood

Born

in Gillhead, Cartmel Fell, Lancashire, England

February 22, 1889

Died

January 09, 1943

Genre

Philosophy, History

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Robin George Collingwood was an English philosopher and historian. Collingwood was a fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, for some 15 years until becoming the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford.

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	The Idea of History by R.G. Collingwood, Jan van der Dussen (Editor) 3.95 avg rating — 688 ratings — published 1946 — 69 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Principles of Art 3.93 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 1938 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Idea of Nature 4.10 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 1945 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Autobiography by R.G. Collingwood, Stephen Toulmin (Introduction) 4.07 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 1939 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roman Britain 4.02 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 1936 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Essay on Philosophical Method by R.G. Collingwood, James Connelly (Editor), Giuseppina D'Oro (Editor) 4.19 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1933 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Speculum Mentis: or The Map of Knowledge 4.46 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1924 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Essays in the Philosophy of History by R.G. Collingwood, William Debbins (Editor) 4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1985 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Leviathan by R.G. Collingwood, David Boucher (Editor) 4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1942 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Outlines of a Philosophy of Art: 1925 Edition (Key Texts Series: Classic Studies in the History of Ideas) 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1988 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“History is for human self-knowledge鈥he only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.”
― R.G. Collingwood

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“Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, The only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.”
― R.G. Collingwood

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“The progressive intellectualization of language, its progressive conversion by the work of grammar and logic into a scientific symbolism, ... represents not a progressive drying-up of emotion, but its progressive articulation and specialization. ... We are acquiring new emotions and new means of expressing them.”
― R.G. Collingwood, The Principles of Art

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