A Study On The Philosophy Of History Views Of Walsh

W. H. Walsh, the famous philosopher and philosopher of history in England in the 20th century. He edited"the Philosophy of History - Introduction"in 1951, started the philosophical thinking about history and historical study, and developed the new realm of the philosophy of research. Walsh named the epistemology of history as Speculative Philosophy of History and the knowledge of Philosophy of History as Analytical Philosophy of History. From then on the point of the research of Philosophy of History is turned to the historical epistemology by the historical ontology to come up; a new branch of learning of"Analytical Philosophy of History"was set up. In"the Philosophy of History - Introduction", Walsh expressed his Philosophy of History thought detailed. The book becomes more important that studying the philosophy of history thought in the 20th century, and the work can't exceed.During the analysis of Kant, Hegel, Toynbee and Comte, Walsh put forward to the views about Speculative of History from analyzing, so that the people are from then to rethink the Speculative of History. To analysis the Analytical Philosophy of History, Walsh put forward to"Colligation"theory and"Perspective" doctrine, and make people produce the tremendous interest in the research to the truth of history. Although Walsh have not resolve the understanding of the objectivity problem of history, he put forward to his theories to widen visual field of research, an important turn in the Philosophy of History study.