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  1. David Pierce @[email protected] ·

    @vincent
    Perhaps, but I would urge you to go to the source, because the
    re-enactment that #RGCollingwood calls history is re-enactment of
    *thought*:

    > Military history, again, is not a description of weary marches in heat
    > or cold, or the thrills and chills of battle or the long agony of
    > wounded men. It is a description of plans and counter-plans: of
    > thinking about strategy and thinking about tactics, and in the last
    > resort of what the men in the ranks thought about the battle.

    That's from *An Autobiography* (1939; new edition, 2013; page 110)

    archive.org/details/autobiogra

    #rgcollingwood
  2. David Pierce @[email protected] ·

    @vincent
    Can this be what you have in mind?

    > All thought exists for the sake of action. We try to understand
    > ourselves and our world only in order that we may learn how to live.
    > The end of our self-knowledge is not the contemplation by enlightened
    > intellects of their own mysterious nature, but the freer and more
    > effectual self-revelation of that nature in a vigorous practical life.

    That's the beginning of the Prologue of #RGCollingwood, *Speculum
    Mentis* (1924, but I understand a new edition is in the works)

    #rgcollingwood
  3. David Pierce @[email protected] ·

    @EgyptianAphorist @bodhidave
    Thanks, Dave, for the essay. It incidentally shows why I question
    quotations that are not properly sourced. Thanks then, Yahia, for
    responding to my request for more precision.

    In another thread today I've quoted #RGCollingwood, who in his first
    book, *Religion and Philosophy* (1916), identified the two title
    subjects with one another and with theology; in his next book, *Speculum
    Mentis* (1924), he backed off from this.

    You make me wonder now how much this confusion owes to Socrates, whom
    (with justification) you make sound like an early Protestant. I've heard
    something like the idea told to tourists in a pre-Ottoman mosque here in
    Turkey: nobody else can tell you what God wants you to do.

    #rgcollingwood
  4. David Pierce @[email protected] ·

    @mariapopova

    I like McPhee's question,

    > How could anyone ever know that something is good before it exists?

    The #Bible suggests that even God cannot know.

    I blogged about this last October, looking also at #RGCollingwood and
    Robert #Pirsig on the subject of checking one's work

    polytropy.com/2022/10/31/it-wa

    #pirsig #rgcollingwood #bible