History · Historical Method and Historiography
UGC NET June 2024 History (Cancelled)
The statement below is attributed to which historian? 'St. Augustine looked at history from the point of view of the early Christian; Tillemont from that of a seventeenth century Frenchman; Gibbon from that of an eighteenth century Englishman; Mommsen from that of a nineteenth century German. There is no point in asking which was the right point of view. Each was the only one possible for the man who adopted it.'
AA. Froude
BR. Collingwood ✓ Correct
CB. Croce
DD. Knowles
Correct answer: (B) R. Collingwood — The answer is R.G. Collingwood.
Explanation
★The answer is R.G. Collingwood.
★This statement belongs to the philosophical historian Robin George Collingwood.
★He argued that each historian's point of view was the only one possible for his own age.
★He held that asking which was the right point of view is meaningless.
★Collingwood also said that all history is the history of thought.
★He foresaw that history would become as important to the world as natural science once was.
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