Para una nueva filosofía de la historia

The central idea of this paper is that our contemporary historical awareness which is increasingly turning towards future is accessible to philosophical reflection. This raises the question whether we need a new Philosophy of History which refers less to past but primarily aims at present and future problems. If thereby a moral responsibility for future generations is addressed Philosophy of History goes hand in hand with Future Ethics. By means of this programme I expressly follow the Philosophy of History since the European Enlightenment. Whereas Historicism is committed to the past and the so called Posthistoire remains restricted to the present, within the classical Philosophy of History representations of the historical process serve as justification for corresponding future expectations. This entails an ethical perspective since the progress in history is not simply predicted but is more or less explicitly declared as desirable tendency which is associated to the moral and political plea to commit oneself to a realisation of these positive development.