“世界历史”观念作为我们理解世界、描述世界的理论框架 ,起源于希腊化时代 ;中世纪 ,它融入宗教哲学 ,完成了哲学化转向。近代以来 ,理性取代了上帝 ,“世界历史”观念随之转向认识论 ,并逐步成为孕育欧洲中心论的温床。近代早期 ,维柯与伏尔泰为近代“世界历史”观念确立了基本的范式 ,这种范式大大削弱了中世纪“世界历史”观念广泛具有的实践性。自康德始 ,近代“世界历史”观念以德国思想家为其表述者。康德的创造性表现在 ,他认为普遍世界历史的存在 ,首先是人们以某种预想为线索进行撰述的结果 ;赫德尔则以强调个体的特殊性与历史性的方式来撰述世界历史。西方近代“世界历史”观念的集大成者黑格尔。他的世界历史思想代表着近代“世界历史”观念的确立与完善 ,同时意味着中世纪普世主义“世界历史”观念的彻底破产 The concept of “world history”, as the theoretical framework for understanding the world and describing the world, originated in the Hellenistic era. In the Middle Ages, it incorporated the philosophy of religion and completed its philosophical shift. Since modern times, reason has replaced God and the notion of “world history” has subsequently shifted to epistemology and has gradually become a breeding ground for Europe’s centralism. Early in the modern era, Vico and Voltaire established the basic paradigm for the concept of modern “world history,” which greatly weakened the extensive practicality of the concept of “world history” in the Middle Ages. Since Kant, the concept of modern “world history” has been written by German thinkers. Kant’s creativeness is manifested in his belief that the existence of a universal world history is, first and foremost, the result of citation by people with certain predictions; and Hedel writes world history in a manner that emphasizes the particularity and history of the individual. Hegel, the Master of the Concepts of Western “World History” in Modern Times. His thinking on world history represents the establishment and perfection of the notion of modern “world history” and at the same time means the complete bankruptcy of the concept of “world history” of medieval universalism