유럽 문명에 대한 앙리 생시몽(HenriSaint-Simon)의 역사 분석 = Henri Saint-Simon`s Historical Analysis of European Civilization

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The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the aspect of Henri Saint-Simon as a historian by examining his revolutionary ideas of social transition, which are based upon his historical analysis of European civilization. Saint-Simon, proud of heir to the Enlightenment philosopher, Marquis de Condorcet, predicted a future industrial system by observing a historical picture of the progress of the human spirit. Saint-Simon indicated that the emancipation of the commune and the introduction of positive science from Arab world in the Middle Ages contributed to the emergence of the European Modern world system. By understanding the transition from the ‘feudal system’ into an ‘industrial system’, Saint-Simon thought that the collapse of ‘Ancien Regime’, regarded usually as a result of the French Revolution, could not lead to the establishment of the industrial system. In this regard, the French Revolution was not finished yet. Saint-Simon could claim that his study was ‘scientific’ and ‘positive’ because his arguments were based on historical observations. Saint-Simon’s ideas of social transition, which would converge to the establishment of industrial society, were always based on the historical observation and analysis of the evolution of European civilization. It gives us Saint-Simon’s image of a historian.