Abstract
In this chapter, the author argues that although the words ‘speculative philosophy of history’ do, and are usually meant to, turn our minds towards bad specimens, there is a real place for conceptual schemes which give us a way of looking at history as a whole, and, indeed, the dichotomy between critical and speculative philosophy of history cannot really be sustained. Speculative philosophy of history has had its moments of respectability, but they have been few and rarely long-lasting. ‘Speculation’ suggests gold mines and stock markets. Those who made the distinction between kinds of philosophy did not think, though, that speculative philosophers of history were likely to make a fortune in gold mining, but that they were likely to make fools of themselves in the way that mining speculators sometimes do.
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