Reactualización, empatía e historia

Abstract

The Idea of Reenactment is a basic concept of the philosophy of History since R. G. Collingwood. This idea is inseparable of the concepts of Empathy, Mind, Moral Feelings and Moral Values. This is a study of this concepts from the philosophical and psychological and historical points of view. Through four case studies: the killing, the medical vision of the Holocaust, the experience of the asylums and the analysis of the feelings of mental patients to make evident the value and limits of the Idea of Reenactment.

Keywords

Reenactment, empathy, mind, moral feelings and values. killing, holocaust, asylums.