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Understanding History throughout Time and Space

2023-05-15

Does history have a "sense"? Is there a general "telos" to the evolution of humankind? Is there such a thing as "progress", or is humanity condemned to cyclicity, chaos, perhaps even endless decline? All human civilisations have given different answers to these questions. This mini-conference, organised on 16th November 2022 at the Instytut Zachodni (Poznań), sheds an exemplary light on some of them, taking into account Egypt, Greece, Rome, ancient China, the German idealist philosophy as well as Polish historical thought.

Programme:
- Prof. Dr. David Engels (IZ / ULBrussels), Zur Inkommensurabilität historischer Erfahrungen – das Beispiel des Altertums.
- Dr. Dawid Rogacz (Univ. Poznań), The Concept of Historical Tendency in the Chinese Philosophy of History.
- Dr. Krystian Pawlaczyk (Univ. Poznań), The Reception of Hegelianism in August Cieszkowski's Early Historiosophy.
- Dr. Mariam Khazaradze (Tbilisi), The Institutions and the Understanding of Culture in Hegels Speculative Dialectic.
- Prof. Dr. Mamuka Beriashvili (Tbilisi), Warum Hegels Philosophie für das politische Denken relevant ist.