Note added October 16, 2018: Here I compare two projects of re-examining the philosophical tradition named in my title. The projects are those of
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R. G. Collingwood in An Essay on Philosophical Method (Oxford, 1933);
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Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan at St John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, beginning in 1937.
I review
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how I ended up as a student at St John’s;
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how Collingwood has been read (or not read) by myself and others, notably Simon Blackburn;
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how Collingwood’s Essay is based on the hypothesis of the “overlap of classes.”
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