![]() Collingwood's study of the philosophical nature and aims of Greek historiography perhaps marks the beginning of this tradition. One of his main reasons was that the History does not address unverifiable questions such as "what constitutes progress and decline in general, how do these come about, and how may they be measured?" Cochrane did, however, become a whipping boy for subsequent generations, as scholars rightly began to emphasize Thucydides' intense interest in the general principles of human life and the very questions that Cochrane failed to recognize. Granted, in 1929 Cochrane offered a plausible picture of a Thucydides whose work was scientific and prognostic rather than philosophical. The question of philosophy in Thucydides is not without precedent. ![]()
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