Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 227-230) e índice

1. Hume: The constancy of human nature -- Introduction -- The science of man -- The formal conditions of historical knowledge -- The causal nature of historical inference -- the uniformity of human nature -- The constancy of human consciousness -- Epistemological neutralism -- The uniformity of concepts -- The ontological status of social ideas -- Conclusion -- 2. Hegel: The self-development of reason -- Introduction -- Hegel and the constancy of human nature -- pre-philosophical history -- Philosophical history -- The final cause -- The efficient cause -- The material cause -- The relationship between the final, efficient and material causes -- Dialectic and the final end -- The logical priority of the idea -- First-order and second-order history -- Conclusion -- 3. Vico: The ideal eternal history -- Vico and Hegel -- The non-rational origins of humanity -- First-order history and emergent rationality -- Emergent rationality and the 'ideal eternal history' -- Providence -- The logical status of the 'ideal eternal history' -- Philosophy and philology -- Philosophy of the self and society as a self -- Conclusion -- 4. Historical consciousness and historical knowledge -- The concept of an historical perspective -- Existential historical facts -- Historical forms of consciousness -- The existence and location of historical consciousness -- The limits of constancy and change -- Historical consciousness and historical knowledge

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