 | Joseph Grünfeld - 1973 - 228 էջ
..."breakdown" himself with regard to the magical or tribal "closed" society. He defines "historicism" as an approach to the social sciences, which assumes that historical prediction is their principal aim 35 but such a definition would not apply to Hegel's historicism, for instance This belief in historical... | |
 | Bryan Magee - 1974 - 120 էջ
...according to scientific laws is one example of what Popper calls 'historicism'. 'I mean by "historicism" an approach to the social sciences which assumes that...historical prediction is their principal aim, and which assumes that this aim is attainable by discovering the "rhythms" or the "patterns", the "laws"... | |
 | Laird Addis - 237 էջ
...shall treat separately in a little while. For the moment I only take note of his definition of it as "an approach to the social sciences which assumes...historical prediction is their principal aim, and which assumes that this aim is attainable by discovering the 'rhythms' or the 'patterns', the 'laws'... | |
 | Sir Karl Raimund Popper, A. T. Ferguson - 126 էջ
..."utopianism," is said to be the theoretical basis of totalitarianism. He states: I mean by "historicism" an approach to the social sciences which assumes that...historical prediction is their principal aim, and which assumes that this aim is attainable by discovering the "rhythms" or the "patterns," the "laws"... | |
 | Thomas J. Heffernan - 1992 - 348 էջ
...daily wonder 4. K. Popper, The Poverty of Historicism (New York, 1957), p. 3: "I mean by 'historicism' an approach to the social sciences which assumes that historical prediction is their principle aim, and which assumes that this aim is attainable by discovering the 'rhythms' or the 'patterns,'... | |
 | Carl Page - 2010 - 257 էջ
...Popper defined the view he hoped to discredit in a curiously abstract way: I mean by "historicism" an approach to the social sciences which assumes that...historical prediction is their principal aim, and which assumes that this aim is attainable by discovering the "rhythms" or the "patterns," the "laws"... | |
 | Steven B. Smith - 1991 - 266 էջ
...meant here not just the dependence of thought upon immediate context but, in the words of Karl Popper, "an approach to the social sciences which assumes...historical prediction is their principal aim, and which assumes that this aim is attainable by discovering the 'rhythm' or the 'pattern,' the 'laws'... | |
 | Perry Anderson - 1992 - 388 էջ
...of Popper's conception of historicism itself. This he defines as follows: 'I mean by "historicism" an approach to the social sciences which assumes that historical prediction is their principal aim.'36 Hegel, of course - the arch-historicist for Popper - refused all historical prediction. Historicist... | |
 | Robert Sonné Cohen, Kostas Gavroglu, John Stachel, Marx W. Wartofsky - 1995 - 436 էջ
...with long-term historical prophecies based on laws of history. [2, v. I, p. 3] Or, historicism is: An approach to the social sciences which assumes that...historical prediction is their principal aim, and which assumes that this aim is attainable by discovering the 'rhythms' or 'patterns', the 'law' or... | |
 | Jens Bartelson - 1995 - 338 էջ
...Poverty of His/on'cism (London, 1974: Routledge). In the latter book, Popper defines historicism as 'an approach to the social sciences which assumes...that historical prediction is their principal aim', thus, and ironically, flogging not only the finalist horse but also the objectivist one. 13 Just to... | |
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historicism' an approach to the social sciences which assumes that historical prediction is their principal aim, and which assumes that this aim is attainable by discovering the 'rhythms' or the 'patterns', the 'laws' or the 'trends' that underlie the... 
