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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The intru- sion of ideas into the serious business of politics is futile and dangerous : Namier rubbed in the moral by ... he went on : Some political philosophers complain of a " tired lull " and the absence at present of argument on ...
The intru- sion of ideas into the serious business of politics is futile and dangerous : Namier rubbed in the moral by ... he went on : Some political philosophers complain of a " tired lull " and the absence at present of argument on ...
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5 Professor Oakeshott offers us a more sophisticated version of this fashionable empiricism : in our political concerns , he tells us , we " sail a boundless and bottomless sea , " where there is " neither starting - point nor appointed ...
5 Professor Oakeshott offers us a more sophisticated version of this fashionable empiricism : in our political concerns , he tells us , we " sail a boundless and bottomless sea , " where there is " neither starting - point nor appointed ...
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It is , however , not the waning of faith in reason among the intellectuals and the political thinkers of the English - speaking world which perturbs me most , but the loss of the pervading sense of a world in per- petual motion .
It is , however , not the waning of faith in reason among the intellectuals and the political thinkers of the English - speaking world which perturbs me most , but the loss of the pervading sense of a world in per- petual motion .
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| Titel | What is History? George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures The George Macaulay lectures, 1961 Trevelyan lectures |
| Autor/in | Edward Hallett Carr |
| Ausgabe | Neuauflage |
| Verlag | Knopf, 1962 |
| Original von | die University of Virginia |
| Digitalisiert | 23. Jan. 2009 |
| Länge | 209 Seiten |
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