Ideas

Japanese: Ideengeschichte

...It can also be equated with essence or essential concept. The pursuit of ideas specific to a certain era, society, or culture is called "ideal history" and plays a part in the history of the mind, thought, and concepts, but its formation is also based on the above-mentioned German philosophical view of ideas. KW von Humboldt advocated the ideal of humanity that leads to the complete formation of the individual, and the goal of history is the realization of ideas exhibited through humanity, while Ranke's world history placed importance on the description of the guiding ideas as the dominant tendency of each century.

From [History of Thought]

...Especially in Germany, when Herder and Kant saw history as the history of the development of the transcendental human spirit, and Hegel established the view that reality and ideas are the self-manifestation of the absolute spirit (idea), the view of understanding various ideas as the spirit of the times in a holistic and unified way spread. Thus, the history of ideas was born as the history of ideas (Ideengeschichte) or the history of the mind (Geistesgeschichte), which describes the various aspects of the development of leading ideas (such as the historical idea, the holistic spirit, freedom, etc.) that transcend various ideas. Dilthey advocated a science of the mind that understands mental phenomena from the structural relations of life, and from this standpoint, he placed emphasis on history and culture as the objectified expression of life, providing a philosophical foundation for the exploration of the history of the mind. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Ideengeschichte" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…また，本質ないし本質概念と等置されることがある。なお，ある時代･社会･文化に固有の諸理念の追究は〈理念史Ideengeschichte〉として，精神史･思想史･概念史の一翼を担うが，その形成も上記のドイツ哲学の理念観に基づく。K.W.vonフンボルトは個人の完全な形成を導く人間性の理念を掲げ，歴史の目標は人類を通して展示される理念の実現とし，ランケの世界史は各世紀の支配的傾向としての指導的理念の記述を重要視した。…

【思想史】より

…とくにドイツで，ヘルダーやカントらが歴史を超越的な人間精神の発展史ととらえ，ヘーゲルが現実と観念とを絶対精神(理念)の自己顕現とみる見方を確立すると，もろもろの思想を時代精神として全体史的･統一的にとらえる見方がひろがった。こうして，諸思想を横断して，主導的観念(たとえば歴史的理念，全体的精神，自由等々)の発展の諸相を内在的に記述する理念史Ideengeschichteあるいは精神史Geistesgeschichteとしての思想史が生まれた。　ディルタイは，精神的諸現象を生の構造連関から了解する精神科学を提唱し，この立場から，生の客観化された表現としての歴史，文化を重視して，精神史探求に哲学的基礎を与えた。…

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