Glossary entry

español term or phrase:

En un plano abstracto histórico

inglés translation:

On an abstract historical plane

Added to glossary by S Ben Price
Mar 16, 2010 16:25
14 yrs ago
español term

En un plano abstracto histórico

español al inglés Ciencias sociales Filosofía
More from my philosophy from hell text. Thanks everyone for the help!

Plan doesn't seem to make sense here.

In addition to my main question, I have another. Is this a question? And if it is a rhetorical question, in Spanish, doesn't it still need to have question marks? And where would they go, at the beginning or like this "... histórico, ¿puede ..."


"En un plano abstracto histórico puede uno traer a colación el cambio moral que supuso la devaluación de la virtud cristiana tradicional de la humildad en el comienzo de la modernidad política maquiavélica."

My rough draft:
In an abstract historic plan can one bring up the moral change that entailed the devaluation of traditional Christian virtue of humility at the beginning of Machiavellian political modernity

Discussion

S Ben Price (asker) Mar 16, 2010:
:) Not at all, Margaret. I put it up there for just that reason. This text needs lots and lots of serious hammering to bang it into something that sounds like reasonable English. Thanks. And thanks also to everyone for the excellent suggestions!!
margaret caulfield Mar 16, 2010:
S., Just a couple of suggestions for your translation: "one can" and not "can one", "meant" instead of "entailed" and "THE traditional" and not just "traditional". Hope you don't mind me making these suggestions.

Proposed translations

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On an abstract historical plane

It must be 'plane' not 'plan' (Oxford's definition B for the word).

Examples:

Bright Lights Film Journal :: Alive and Kicking: The Kung Fu Film ...by R Garcia - Cited by 4 - Related articles
Few martial-arts films are located in a precise time or place; rather, they take place on an abstract historical plane (like a fairy tale) that is then ...
www.brightlightsfilm.com/31/hk_alive.html - Cached - Similar

RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY AS AN AREA OF STUDY AND AS A SPIRITUAL VALUE*On the abstract, historical plane the answer to the question of the national uniqueness of Russian philosophy is simple and axiomatic. It ...
doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1467-9973.1994.tb00475.x

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Link for that second reference above:

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119968406/abstrac...

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It iis actually quite common to refer to the historical plane in philosophy/philosophy of history - e.g.

oject MUSE - Journal of the History of Philosophy - Avicenna ...by DL Black - 1994
... White has lifted them out of their original historical plane to a position from which ... Philosophy has always stood on the past to build the future. ...
muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the...of_philosophy/.../32.4black.html

Metaphor and Historical Understandingby P Stambovsky - 1988 - Cited by 5 - Related articles
and philosophy of history fail to recognize that every historical discourse con- .... historical plane, orchestrates interpretive discourse and thereby ...
www.jstor.org/stable/2505137

<product> <article-title>Lukács and Heidegger: Towards a New ...Lucien Goldmann, Luk?cs and Heidegger: Towards a New Philosophy, trans, .... praise is offered to Marx as one who thought on an historical plane. ...
www.jstor.org/stable/20099090

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Philosophy & Social Criticismby U Reason
principles of Kant's Philosophy. Kantian transcendentalism is ..... On the historical plane, utopianism is an inevitable predicative coefficient of the ...
psc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/16/4/291.pdf
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in an abstract historical sense/on an...level

"plano" can also mean level or sense.

Also, don't worry about the inverted word order of the sentence. It's not a question.
Peer comment(s):

agree philgoddard
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At an abstract historical level

HTH

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or 'on an abstract historical level' depending on your preferred choice of preposition.
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from an abstract-historical perspective/standpoint

Saludos
Peer comment(s):

agree Tracie Shannon Houlihan
8 horas
Gracias Tracie
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