Moral Forces, Philosophy of History, and War in José Rizal 6
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ABSTRACT : This article attempts to reconstruct an aspect of José Rizal's interpretation of history from some fragmentary remarks in the important essay The Philippines a Century Hence (1889-1890). It argues that previous efforts to arrive at such an understanding have been hampered by a lack of attention to the categories that Rizal himself used in that work. Employing the method of conceptual concordance, the study proposes that a possible source for Rizal's historical categories may ultimately be traced to the tradition of German historicism and, in particular, to the military theorist Carl von Clausewitz.