A Universal History

Ideas of a Universal History There were many philosophers throughout time who sought constantly to identify a Universal History. These philosophers believed in continuity. History to them was a progressive revelation of the way the universe was structured and through this belief, they felt better able to explain man’s origin and purpose in life as a whole. Not all philosophers followed or studied Universal Histories as can be seen in the times of Greek …showed first 75 words of 829 total…

…showed last 75 words of 829 total…state of self-knowledge, thereby bringing him to the end of a Universal History. The high optimism that marked most of the Enlightenment thought - the belief that human history is a record of general progress - has survived as one of the movements most lasting legacies. We still more or less really live in an ‘Enlightened’ world even though philosophers and historians have named the late nineteenth and all of the twentieth century as ‘post-Enlightenment’.