Abstract

Since the end of the XIX century, Croce conceives history not as political history or chronicle, but as moral, intimate, spiritual history, i.e. as history of humanity. It means development, evolution, progress, passage from good to better. Confronted with the first world war, Croce gave it the name of «ethical-political history», regarding it as the true history, as the history par excellence. «Ethical-political history» is moral history, but it becomes in time also and especially religious history, which is the history of prophets, confessors, martyrs, history of the struggle between Church and State, faith and unbelief, Heaven and Hell. So it can be said that the moral history, the «ethical-political history», the universal history, and the philosophy of history, find their resolution in the concept of a history with a powerful theophanic element, which forms the subject of the books of his so called “historical tetralogy”