TY - JOUR TI - Recognizing the Past AU - Jurist, Elliot L. T2 - History and Theory AB - The philosophical past, once a thing of the past, is with us again. I examine three recent positions about how to understand the philosophical past: the presentism of Richard Rorty, the traditionalism of Alasdair MacIntyre, and the interpretism of Charles Taylor. Rorty, MacIntyre, and Taylor all acknowledge a Hegelian influence upon their views; thus, I also explore Hegel's own view of the history of philosophy. Finally, I offer my own view that our relation to the past ought to be guided by "recognizing" it. Although the concept of recognition is found in Hegel, I argue that Hegel as well as Rorty and MacIntyre end up conceiving of our relation to the past as one of appropriation. Recognition as I define it eschews such appropriation; rather, it consists in a "working through" of the past in a sense the paper specifies. DA - 1992/05// PY - 1992 VL - 31 IS - 2 SP - 163 EP - 181 LA - English SN - 00182656 UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/2505595 KW - Past ER -