Theory of Knowledge - Course Companion for Students Marija Uzunova Dang Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang

to show it how it was.” This was th propr aim of history and th historian, aording
“Simply
Lopold von Rank (1909), onsidrd th pionr of th modrn disiplin. Our xploration in
to
important storis aout past vnts and prsonalitis, and TOK invits us to larn aout this
th
human ndavour that produs and prsrvs knowldg aout th past. W xplor
inrdil
and prati of history, you will
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multipl prsptivs on what history
nountr
and is not, how it is and ought to don,
is
what its purpos might . Th historian
and
Elton is known for Th Practice of
Goffry
(1967), a manifsto on studying, writing
History
tahing history. H latr summarizd ths
and
as follows.
prinipls
this haptr will show that nothing is so simpl aout this AOK. History invits our uriosity to
what guids historians and non-historians among us in th study of history.
History
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. S C O P I E
of ody th of xploration your Throughout
History provides the laboratory in which human
experience is analysed, distilled and bottled for use.
The so-called lessons of history do not teach you
to do this or that now; they teach you to think more
deeply, more completely, and on the basis of an
enormously enlarged experience about what it may
be possible or desirable to do now.
(Elton 1991)
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