History As The Story Of Liberty

Croce is one of the critical and analysis historians, with his well-known"all history is contemporary history" opened the academic discuss of his theory. 20s to 30s of the nineteenth century, a bright thesis "history is as a story of liberty" displayed in his mind. What will be discussed in this article just start from the view of freedom in his theory of history. Getting Hegel's concept"free history" as a basic theory, Croce built up his unique style by sublation of Hegel's conception.There are mainly four sections of this article,First is the introduction. It summarizes the necessity and important meaning of this article as well as the research situation of home and abroad; and also makes the conception through whole test to be brief.The second section discusses the origin of Croce's view of freedom. everything has its origin. There is a historical tradition of liberalism in the country Croce growth. In his view, his belief on freedom which is deep-rooted in his mind is one kind of innate ability, just as he is born as a Naples. Meanwhile, a special historical background at that time is a practical reason for his view of freedom came into being. The original tradition of freedom in Italy was destroyed under the totalitarian rules of Fascism. For that reason, Croce expected to get the lost confidence on freedom back by his "the history of freedom". In the end, evolution of view of freedom in modern Western was recalled as a philosophical foundation.The third section is the top priority of this article which expatiates on both theory and practice of Croce's view in details. The analysis of theory part is developed by "freedom of the epistemological foundation: the spirit of the creative and contemporary," "freedom of religion: the ideal of liberalism," "the premise of freedom: the logic of the inevitability of history" and "the concept of freedom: the eternal and the historical patterns of"; The practice part is an elaboration that explain the history by the concept of freedom of Croce, which covered the range from the mainland of Italy to the whole Europe.The fourth section is just the thinking and comments on Croce's view of freedom. Then elicit the essence and limitations through the analysis whether it is right or not to inheritance from and criticize on Hegel's view of freedom.