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

of telling us that certain conditions
Instead
be shown, from past experience, to lead to
can
assured consequences, history for ever
certain
the unexpectedness of the event,
demonstrates
so instils a proper scepticism in the face of all
and
vast and universal claims. A knowledge of the
those
should arm a man against surrendering to the
past
peddled by too many myth-makers … .
panaceas
I will burden the historian with preserving
Thus
freedom, freedom of thought and action.
human
som tim onsidring th dpr
Spnd
of Elton’s words, in partiular what h
maning
aout th kind of knowldg w produ
says
aquir in this AOK.
and
is widly said and oftn livd that
It
rpats itslf, and that thos who do
history
What do you intrprt from Elton’s words
1.
whthr h thinks pattrns in
aout
How dos th assumption aout pattrns
2.
history afft th prditiv powr of
in
Elton dsris knowldg of history as a
3.
of intlltual slf-dfn. Dos this
form
with you? Rflt on a tim you
rsonat
usd your knowldg of history in
hav
There is the past and there
I.1
history is
is not th past, ut th study of th past
History
th ody of knowldg that rsults from that
and
Thr ar many ovrlapping, imprftly
study.
trms hr: th writtn rord, th
synonymous
rord, historial narrativs, writtn
historial
rordd history, historial aount
sour,
so on. Through th work of historians,
and
historial past is produd, onsisting of
a
fats, whih is diffrnt from th past
historial
Fw will hallng this distintion, ut
itslf.
dos not man that th rlationship twn
that
happnd in th past, and what w know
what
it through history, is straightforward or
aout
unompliatd.
numr of knowldg issus aris from th
A
that historians ar not tim travllrs ut
fat
lik intrprtrs of th tras of th past.
rathr
dos it man thn for a historian’s aount
What
rflt th past auratly? If w apt that
to
nvr ass th past as it was, thn
historians
an thr hks on thir work that ar
how
hks? What or who is th final aritr,
“ral”
authority on what atually happnd? Th
th
answr is that thr is non. This haptr
short
th ways historians and non-historians
xplors
and to an xtnt ovrom, this
nountr,
W onsidr xatly what rmains of
prolm.
past, how historians ass it and how thy
th
I. Scope
I. Scope
history xist?
historial knowldg?
this way.
(Elton 1991)
For ref lection
Historical knowledge
onstrut thir aounts.
not larn from history ar doomd to rpat it.
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