" I would like to see the same division of labor in history, with traditional historians being the ones who pick up the screwdriver to take apart the watch, while philosophers of history are seeking the understanding of history on another level"
One of the first jobs of the Ph o'H will be to work out if there is any plot at all, and, or at least, how to distinguish the syuzhet (as historical record the Trad workers investigate) from the fabula (actual history), which will provide an excellent arena for any analogy gymnastics.
Sometimes there is no why but even without a why there is an 'and then' that survival allows. That would be my initial benchmark. Why Hegel when you can Janus?
(I also wanted to throw in an allegorical element or even fable in here but decided it was obscure enough already.)
All political thinkers and culture warriors (a job once restricted to emperors only) produce a syuzhet as fabula of course.
" I would like to see the same division of labor in history, with traditional historians being the ones who pick up the screwdriver to take apart the watch, while philosophers of history are seeking the understanding of history on another level"
One of the first jobs of the Ph o'H will be to work out if there is any plot at all, and, or at least, how to distinguish the syuzhet (as historical record the Trad workers investigate) from the fabula (actual history), which will provide an excellent arena for any analogy gymnastics.
Sometimes there is no why but even without a why there is an 'and then' that survival allows. That would be my initial benchmark. Why Hegel when you can Janus?
(I also wanted to throw in an allegorical element or even fable in here but decided it was obscure enough already.)
All political thinkers and culture warriors (a job once restricted to emperors only) produce a syuzhet as fabula of course.