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(1978) Philosophy of history and action, Dordrecht, Springer.
How can we learn from history? We can think of history as a repository of examples which illustrate the laws and regularities governing human behaviour, or the rise and fall, survival and destruction of societies. And we can study it with a view to discovering these laws, or in a less nomologically-oriented way, we can read it in order to extract maxims of effective action for ourselves. Something like this was Machiavelli's use of history.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-9365-5_11
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Taylor, C. (1978)., Hegel's Sittlichkeit and the crisis of representative institutions, in Y. Yovel (ed.), Philosophy of history and action, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 133-154.
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