On Collingwood's Historical Philosophy

Collingwood is a famous historical philosopher. He has made glorious achievement in philosophy and historiography. But his achievement was developed under the background of the general development of positivism. Beside, Collingwood assimilated the thought of dilthey and croce, who are famous historian.Collingwood wrote a lot of articles about historical philosophy in his life. After his death, Concept of history was published by his friend according to Collingwood's thought. The book systematically present the view of history from Collingwood, including what he thought the object of the study of the historiography, and the method and the value of the study. It full reflects Collingwood's basic thought of historical philosophy.As a historical philosopher, Collingwood has made great contribution to historical philosophy. First, he criticized the way that positivist historiography and"scissors and paste"have studied. Second, Collingwood created the logic of question and answer which provided a good way of knowing historiography. Third, Collingwood's historiography embodied the human nature care. Finally, as a epistemological spokesman, Collingwood developed some important thought of the historical epistemology.Domestic scholars are critical about Collingwood's thought. However, we should be conscious to Collingwood's progress in criticizing the predecessor. We also are conscious to the positive factor in Collingwood's historical philosophy.