On The Origin And Formation Of R.g.collingwood’s Historical Definition

R.G.Collinwood was one of the greatest western philosophers of history in the 20 th century.His thought was formed under the influence of family atmosphere,academic edification,historical background and other factors.In the early 20 th century,his historical view gradually changed from theoretical facts under the theory of reality to practical cognition under the theory of concept.In the early 1920 s,R.G.Collingwood’s theory of ideas,which had been rooted in his mind during the period of family education,became the background of his thoughts after archaeological practice,philosophical reflection and edification of the theory of ideas.At this time,the history he talked about was a cognitive way,which was second only to philosophy in the form of experience and was the self-knowledge of the mind.Since then he could start after learned how to historical understanding historical fact of exploration activity in practice,in R.G.Collingwood’s opinion,history is a question-and-answer logic as method of independent discipline,its cognitive basis for evidence,evidence is bearing the weight of the thoughts of human in the past,so historian of evidence from the external form of inquiry into the bearing criticism and construction in the history of thinking,this evidence as evidence depends on the cognitive style,historians say that it is the concrete form of thinking of the history.After clear discipline within the system history,R.G.Collingwood was out of the scope of subject reflect on history,from the nature,object,method and value of four Angle defined four history,they are formed in the reality,and thus will have a significant meaning to the real man.Here,Collingwood’s historical definition is actually a response to the dispute between science and art,but not limited to this.He is committed to combining theory and practice to explore how to write history;to explore the operability of history within the discipline,and to jump out of the great significance of the discipline to explore history for mankind,that is,to know yourself.