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But scepticism about progress in the past and pessimism about prospects for the
future have become more powerful and more assertive as the twentieth century
has moved on . Popper , who gave a lecture a quarter of a century ago entitled ...
But scepticism about progress in the past and pessimism about prospects for the
future have become more powerful and more assertive as the twentieth century
has moved on . Popper , who gave a lecture a quarter of a century ago entitled ...
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But , as we all know , the present has no more than a notional existence as an
imaginary dividing line between the past and the future . In speaking of the
present , I have already smuggled another time dimension into the argument . It
would , I ...
But , as we all know , the present has no more than a notional existence as an
imaginary dividing line between the past and the future . In speaking of the
present , I have already smuggled another time dimension into the argument . It
would , I ...
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Thucydides believed that nothing significant had happened in time before the
events which he described , and that nothing significant was likely to happen
thereafter . Lucretius deduced man ' s indifference to the future from his
indifference to ...
Thucydides believed that nothing significant had happened in time before the
events which he described , and that nothing significant was likely to happen
thereafter . Lucretius deduced man ' s indifference to the future from his
indifference to ...
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Introductory Note | ix |
Notes towards a Second | xvii |
The Historian and His Facts | 1 |
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| Titel | What is History?: The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961 @Trevelyan lectures given at the University of Cambridge George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures The Trevelyan lectures |
| Autoren | Edward Hallett Carr, Robert William Davies |
| Herausgeber | Robert William Davies |
| Ausgabe | 2, illustriert |
| Verlag | Macmillan, 1986 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 5. Juni 2008 |
| ISBN | 0333389565, 9780333389560 |
| Länge | 154 Seiten |
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