TY - BOOK ID - 85646006 TI - The presuppositions of critical history PY - 2012 SN - 1139137077 1108040446 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - History KW - Philosophy. KW - History, Modern KW - Philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85646006 AB - This work combines two early pamphlets by F.H. Bradley (1846-1924), the foremost philosopher of the British Idealist movement. The first essay, published in 1874, deals with the nature of professional history, and foreshadows some of Bradley's later ideas in metaphysics. He argues that history cannot be subjected to scientific scrutiny because it is not directly available to the senses, meaning that all history writing is inevitably subjective. Though not widely discussed at the time of publication, the pamphlet was influential on historian and philosopher R.G. Collingwood. The second pamphlet is Bradley's critique of Henry Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics. Sidgwick was the first to propose the paradox of hedonism, which is the idea in ethics that pleasure can only be acquired indirectly. ER -