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SENTENTIA. European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Spirova, E.M.
Why do we need history?
// SENTENTIA. European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences.
2013. № 1.
P. 23-27.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=63068
Spirova, E.M. Why do we need history?
Abstract:
People of the past are alive due to a special kind of social practice —
social memory. Modern psychology demonstrates sufficiently that no one can,
on their own, have an adequate understanding of their social behaviour and
the way of thinking. However sincere his attempts to be the judge of himself,
sooner or later he has to resort to somebody else’s judgement and interpretation.
This also holds true for the consciousness of nations, confessional
communities, political and ideological movements. A historian’s belonging to
some historiographic tradition or another, undoubtedly influences the character
of his research. And to the same degree, a historian’s work is influenced
by his individuality. Problems and methods of historical anthropology are not
infrequently called the history of mentality. This is associated with the French
School of Annals. The history of mentalities, however, can hardly pretend to
have an autonomous status in the system of historical knowledge. We cannot
to foresee to what and how history will respond, but there is an old observation
by social psychologists that social shifts begin in a form and depth
that nobody expects. People of the Renaissance considered that history began
with them, they imagined themselves to be pioneers, aware as they were that
they were reviving antiquity. Tradition often seems irrelevant, a password for
an archaic period and preposterous old times. But it is in tradition that infinite
social experience is crystallized.
Keywords:
philosophy, history, culture, tradition, stability, historicism, reform, revolution, social experience, progress.
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