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Khan Hammaad
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—Social sciences are different from the sciences as the subject-object distinction collapses.
—Ideal moral categories are abstract but practical moral notions are historical?
—A Historian judges a society not the individual.
—Social sciences and sciences have different methods and avenues of study but a unified in their aim.
—History is a game played without a Joker (God) in the pack.
—Everyone is UNHAPPY=EQUALITY!
— Jun 22, 2021 01:08PM
—Ideal moral categories are abstract but practical moral notions are historical?
—A Historian judges a society not the individual.
—Social sciences and sciences have different methods and avenues of study but a unified in their aim.
—History is a game played without a Joker (God) in the pack.
—Everyone is UNHAPPY=EQUALITY!
Khan Hammaad
is on page 119 of 256
—How can one differentiate between the society and the individual.
Is a biography just a history?
—If history is seen as a process then the historian is not like a eagle viewing it from the above but is a part of it. His view depends upon the process itself.
—His view that individual character is of little importance in the course of history and that goes directly against Iqbal's and Nietzsche's theses.
— Jun 20, 2021 01:44PM
Is a biography just a history?
—If history is seen as a process then the historian is not like a eagle viewing it from the above but is a part of it. His view depends upon the process itself.
—His view that individual character is of little importance in the course of history and that goes directly against Iqbal's and Nietzsche's theses.
Khan Hammaad
is on page 96 of 256
History is the continuous process of interaction between the Historian and his facts, an unending dialogue between the present and the past.
He sees History as essentially a subjective process and it seems quite reasonable as History is on one side and the past on another. History is the study of of the Past NOT the past itself and any study depends on the one who studies. Except maybe in mathematics or maybe not.
— Jun 19, 2021 07:50AM
He sees History as essentially a subjective process and it seems quite reasonable as History is on one side and the past on another. History is the study of of the Past NOT the past itself and any study depends on the one who studies. Except maybe in mathematics or maybe not.
Khan Hammaad
is on page 12 of 256
What constitutes the idea of truth in history?
What constitutes history. Events or the reasons behind the events?
"Facts" what are these?
"Facts are neutral" what is neutrality?
How should one look at history?
— Jun 17, 2021 09:35AM
What constitutes history. Events or the reasons behind the events?
"Facts" what are these?
"Facts are neutral" what is neutrality?
How should one look at history?
