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Discours sur l’histoire universelle

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contribution to philosophy of history

  • Jacob Burckhardt
    In philosophy of history: Theological origins

    …years after Augustine’s death, Bossuet’s Discours sur l’histoire universelle (1681; Discourse on Universal History) is imbued throughout with a naïve confidence that the entire course of history owes its pervasive character to the contrivance of a “higher wisdom.” In the eyes of Bossuet, to grasp and understand the great procession…

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