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Universality and particularity in the philosophy of E. B. Bax and R. G. Collingwood

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Bill Bevir

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Abstract

This article examines the ways in which E. B. Bax and R. G. Collingwood attempted to avoid relativism and irrationalism without postulating a pure and universal reason. Both philosophers were profound historicists who recognized the fundamentally particular nature of the world. Yet they also attempted to retain a universal aspect to thought -Bax through his distinction between the logical and alogical realms, and Collingwood through his doctrine of re-enactment. The article analyses both their metaphysical premises and their philosophies of history. Finally an attempt is made to use their arguments as starting-points from which to arrive at a historicist resolution of the problems of relativism and irrationalism.

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Author(s): Bevir M

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: History of the Human Sciences

Year: 1999

Volume: 12

Issue: 3

Pages: 55-69

Print publication date: 01/08/1999

ISSN (print): 0952-6951

ISSN (electronic): 1461-720X

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09526959922120342

DOI: 10.1177/09526959922120342

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