An Existential Philosophy of History

In this paper we delineate the conditions and features of what we call an existential philosophy of history in relation to customary trends in the field of the philosophy of history. We do this by circumscribing what a transgenerational temporality and what our entanglement in ethical relations with...

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Authors: Gilbert, Bennett, Elgabsi, Natan
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2021
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)
Repository:Revista de Teoria da História
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistas.ufg.br:article/67655
Online Access:https://revistas.ufg.br/teoria/article/view/67655
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:historicity
ethics
otherness
historicidade
ética
alteridade
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Summary:In this paper we delineate the conditions and features of what we call an existential philosophy of history in relation to customary trends in the field of the philosophy of history. We do this by circumscribing what a transgenerational temporality and what our entanglement in ethical relations with temporal others ask of us as existential and responsive selves and by explicating what attitude we need to have when trying to responsibly respond to other vulnerable beings in our historical world of life.