“历史哲学”这个名辞曾经引起哲学家和历史家很大的兴趣。但是他们往往给历史哲学以不同的解释,因此哲学家谈的关于历史的那些话对于历史家很少或者根本没有什么意义;而历史家所谈的关于自己本行的话则不大受到哲学家的重视。这对本文所评论的两部历史哲学的书说来,也是如此;两本书虽则都自称谈的是历史哲学,但实际上碰不到一起。 The term “philosophy of history” has drawn great interest among philosophers and historians. However, they often interpret the philosophy of history differently, so that the philosophers’ words about history have little or no meaning to historians; and the words of historians about their own line are less influenced by philosophers Pay attention. This is also true of the two books of historical philosophy reviewed in this article; though both books claim to speak of history and philosophy, they are in fact untouchable.