著者

福谷 茂

出版者

近世哲学会

雑誌

近世哲学研究 = Studies in modern philosophy (ISSN:13414364)

巻号頁・発行日

no.15, pp.24-45, 2011-12-25

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Our conceptions of history are made up from many hidden layers. History of philosophy has, as a genre of history, several historiographical components not yet thematically discerned. In this paper the author attempts to enlighten and isolate them as fundamental techniques of doing history. His method is by investigating the original forms of historiography, i.e., works of two Greek historians (Herodotus, Thucydides), narratives of the Old and New Testaments, and ancient Chinese canonical texts. Our perceptions of history and time are still basically determined by them. The author points out that to achieve their purposes of being a history, a special historical time, in distinction to natural time, is constituted by all and every of them. Representation (Darstellung) of the historical reality is a highly complex and artificial thing comparable to those "dargestellte Wirklichkeit" analyzed by Erich Auerbach in his "Mimesis": every historical narrative is an end-in-itself, not a step to something beyond it (such as "history as fact" postulated by Kiyoshi Miki's "Geschichtsphilosophie"). The author finds the time-consciousness of evangelical writings based on the anamnesis is particularly relevant for the proper understanding of the situation of history of philosophy. He concludes the article with a brief description of Giovanni Gentile's concepts of "atto del pensare come atto puro" and "intrinseca medesimezza della filosofia e della sua storia" which he believes to be an accurate statement of the conditions of the possibility of historiography of philosophy.