E Pluribus Unum – a tudományok sokfélesége és a történelemfilozófia egységteremtő szerepe R. G. Collingwoodnál

Throughout his career, R. G. Collingwood held numerous and even contradictory positions regarding the nature and methodology of human sciences (Geisteswissenschaften). Sometimes he even made baffling remarks on his main fields of research: history and philosophy. Paradoxically, he intended to outline the above subject in a work (The Idea of History) which remained unfinished, hence, we still lack a coherent explanation of his ideas on these matters. This paper gives a broad overview of Collingwood’s system of human sciences and attempts to adumbrate first of all what philosophy of history was supposed to be based on the author’s scattered remarks.