What is History?Knopf, 1962 - 209 Seiten A philosophical interpretation of history, examining the significance of historical study as a science and a reflection of social values. |
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... criterion is once more historical : what fitted one epoch had become a solecism in another , and is con- demned on that account . Even Sir Isaiah Berlin , when he descends from the heights of philosophical abstrac- tion and considers ...
... criterion is once more historical : what fitted one epoch had become a solecism in another , and is con- demned on that account . Even Sir Isaiah Berlin , when he descends from the heights of philosophical abstrac- tion and considers ...
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... criterion of judgment in history not some " principle claiming universal va- lidity , " but " that which works best . " It is not only - I need hardly say — when analysing the past that we invoke this criterion of " what works best ...
... criterion of judgment in history not some " principle claiming universal va- lidity , " but " that which works best . " It is not only - I need hardly say — when analysing the past that we invoke this criterion of " what works best ...
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... criterion over the criterion of a supposedly fixed and universal principle is that it may require us to postpone our judgment or to qualify it in the light of things that have not yet happened . Proudhon , who talked freely in terms of ...
... criterion over the criterion of a supposedly fixed and universal principle is that it may require us to postpone our judgment or to qualify it in the light of things that have not yet happened . Proudhon , who talked freely in terms of ...
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