Historia jako myśl i działanie

Wprowadzenie

“History as Thought and as Action”, published in 1938 and translated into English in 1941 as “History as the Story of Liberty”, gathers Croce’s late reflections on history, written under the fascist regime. Historical knowledge, he argues, is not a copy of the past but an act of thought in the present, which brings the past to life in answer to present practical and moral needs; history and philosophy coincide. Against historical determinism and against philosophies of history with a predetermined end, Croce presents liberty as the moral ideal at work throughout history, an ideal that is never secured once and for all and must always be won again. In Italy and abroad the book was read at the time as a philosophical statement of liberal opposition to dictatorship; it also gave the formula of history as the story of liberty its wide circulation.

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