Menschheitsgeschichte Philosophisch Gesehen – Eine Notwendige Oder Zufällige Entwicklung?
History of the Mankind from the Philosophical Perspective – Necessery or Contingential Development?

Summary/Abstract: In the following paper I will consider the question how has the understanding of history transformed trough time, mainly concerning the development from the understanding focused on necessity to that which prioritized the contingency. Thereby it can be seen how concentrating on language can turn philosophers away from the idea that history is ruled by certain laws or principles. That which historically occurs cannot be adequately derived from general notions; instead – the man is the one who, by changing the usage of language, forms the history. While the classical (idealistically coloured) philosophy of history had announced the freedom accordingly to criteria of mind, the postmodern philosophers of philosophy of history have been criticizing that tradition and demanding deliberation of biased philosophical notions such as the one of the unique mind, because they think that such notions were also accidentally set up and thus have only historically conditioned plausibility. This critique was in the most radical manner formulated by the Neo-pragmatist Richard Rorty, who by insisting on contingency of everything humane (including language) pointed out to the boundaries of the project of philosophy as the discipline which establishes the knowledge.

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