The Problem of Historical Thinking in the Philosophical Discourse

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1) In researching the platonic opposition between the memorial address for the war dead and the philsophical discourse and the biblical language as memory and testimoy of the life of Jesus, we made it clear that already in ancient and medieval philosophy, but in Greek thought the orientation to the "Eternal" had made it impossible to find out any rationality in history.2) As for modern philosophy, it remains unsettled whether the historicization of the philosophical discourse began with a German nationalism of resistance, like Fichtean "Speech to the German Nation", against the napoleonian rule or whether Kantian Critique of Judgement had already set about an elaboration of historical philosophy by finding out the linguistic nature of human thinking.3) We examined the validity of the "narrative theory of history" as a contemporary form of philosophy of history. As a result, we confirmed that, in spite of its validity against the dogmatic philosophy of history, this narrative theory was incapable of criticizing the "national history" as "national story" which presupposed and exploited the fictionality of history, and that, in a crisis in history, we had to form a judgement and commit ourselves to some desirable narratives. In order to answer to the question what kind of "rule" is necessary to justify one's judgement, we have further to pursue a close investigation into the relations between the Self and Other.