ABSTRACT
Among contemporary philosophers there is perhaps no other who has seized upon and carried out the philosophical task of the philosophy of history—without being led astray by the doctrine of “hermeneutic philosophy” according to which prejudice is the precondition of all understanding. This chapter examines the estimation of the philosophical significance of the history of philosophy in two philosophers from the modern era, namely Leibniz and Hegel, whose substantive acknowledgment of the philosophical work of the past seems at first glance to agree with Boeder’s approach. The acknowledgment of what has been done as philosophy within what is called the history of philosophy is not grounded in a knowledge that would be independent of the determinate knowledge of the positions to be investigated and situated in their ratio-tectonic. Indeed, this acknowledgment is evidenced first of all in the presentation of the interconnected totalities.
