Philosophical Considerations of the Three Grand Conceptions of History

Historical being is a temporal form of being. In historiography, the pure and objective history is a “being” that is not present, the existence of which is not in the perspectives of historiography. Since historical facts do not exist in the current time and space, the traditional historical ontology or the historical philosophy is subject to doubt. The research objectives of critical historical philosophy lie in the determination of the scientific nature, boundaries and specific value of historiography, transforming the ontological history into the understanding of history. However, history must present itself through language and language appears to define the boundaries of history. Yet, from perspectives of basis and existence, there would be no historical knowledge and historical understanding without historical facts as object, without which there would be no historical speech and historical texts. In short, the three aspects of objective historical facts, historical knowledge and the language expressing history constitute the apparent forms of historic significance.