What is History?A philosophical interpretation of history, examining the significance of historical study as a science and a reflection of social values. |
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of the tension between liberty and equality, or between individual liberty and
social justice, we are apt to forget that fights do not occur between abstract ideas.
These are not struggles between individuals as such and society as such, but ...
of the tension between liberty and equality, or between individual liberty and
social justice, we are apt to forget that fights do not occur between abstract ideas.
These are not struggles between individuals as such and society as such, but ...
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The printed part consists of abstract words like liberty and equality, justice and
democracy. These are essential categories. But the cheque is valueless until we
fill in the other part, which states how much liberty we propose to allocate to
whom, ...
The printed part consists of abstract words like liberty and equality, justice and
democracy. These are essential categories. But the cheque is valueless until we
fill in the other part, which states how much liberty we propose to allocate to
whom, ...
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Nothing is more radically false than to set up some supposedly abstract standard
of the desirable and condemn the past in the light of it. For the word "success,"
which has come to have invidious connotations, let us by all means substitute the
...
Nothing is more radically false than to set up some supposedly abstract standard
of the desirable and condemn the past in the light of it. For the word "success,"
which has come to have invidious connotations, let us by all means substitute the
...
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Nutzerbericht - msaucier818 - LibraryThingThis was the definition of a dry read. I read this for a graduate class, and my purpose in reading the book was to try and develop an understanding of how we think about research and the past. I did ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
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Nutzerbericht - antiquary - LibraryThingIt puzzles me that Carr was taken so seriously as a "distinguished historian" in British academic circles, considering that he spent the first part of his career championing appeasement of Germany and much of the rest admiring Stalin. Vollständige Rezension lesen
Inhalt
I THE HISTORIAN AND His FACTS | 3 |
SOCIETY AND THE INDIVIDUAL | 36 |
HISTORY SCIENCE AND MORALITY | 70 |
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | What is History? Band 652 von A Pelican book The George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures, 1961 The Trevelyan lectures |
| Autor | Edward Hallett Carr |
| Ausgabe | Neuauflage |
| Verlag | A. A. Knopf, 1962 |
| Original von | die University of Virginia |
| Digitalisiert | 23. Jan. 2009 |
| Länge | 209 Seiten |
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