Philosophy of history

private individual fit within the cold, public expanse of history? Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and Orhan Pamuk’s Snow consider the relationship between individual identity and collective, historical tragedy,…

The purpose of ancient Greek History during the time of Herodotus and Thucydides was a period of developing methods for the study of the past, documentation of wars, and creating historical and entertaining stories for the people. It was the time of initial inquiry of developing an understanding of the beginning of the story as well as the methods to gain this information. Roman historians of Polybius, Titus Livius Patavinus, Publius Tacitus, benefited from the previous establishment of…

The Stolen Legacy speaks about social reformation through new philosophies. By subverting people’s beliefs of origins, it establishes a new hierarchy or understanding of world order. In this way, the Greeks stole the Legacy of the African Continent and called it their own. This has shifted power from Africa to Europe, who believe they have civilized most of the worlds undeveloped populations. As a result of this dishonesty has been the creation of an inaccurate world opinion. It has meant that…

Renfrew and bahn chapter one: The main focus and summary of this chapter is about the history of archaeology, as well as its present form. Archaeology has gone from discovering and finding archaeological material, to developing/applying methods to answer questions about our human past. Thomas Jefferson was the first to have a recorded excavation in 1784. By using methods such as stratigraphy and deductive reasoning, archaeologists of this time were able to touch on the deeper questions of our…

The complexity of world history spans from the multiple tiers of information collected over many years. The subject of world history has caused much controversy and has kept educators and scholars deciphering content. The controversy has kept educators wandering what to teach and how to teach. This broad subject holds educators to an extremely high standard which they must not fall beneath; teaching philosophies and lesson plans must meet each standard. An educator is responsible for their…

While Foucault identifies history with the past and the documents containing such information, Taylor (n.d) identifies history as a field correlated to the trauma that forms part of human existence. According to Taylor (n.d) history is part of human existence and it should be referenced according to the events that took part in the past years. This means that it should never be separated in terms of durations of discontinuities, but it should rather form part of the existence. Unlike Foucault…

Richard Muller in the “Reflection on Persistent Whiggism and Its Antidotes in the Study of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Intellectual History”. The purpose of the article is to examined how the contemporary scholars are relating to the historical context of the sixteenth and the seventeenth century. The article also identified the thinkers and how they changed the ideologies of the church during the reformation era. Richard Muller argued that one must understand theological and…

the various changes in history that influenced the development of the footnote. Grafton chose this unique chronology in order to help him reveal to the reader “where, when, and why historians adopted [the footnote’s] distinctive form of narrative architecture.” In choosing a non-linear chronology, Grafton is not constrained by the need to show the evolution of the footnote from a single, “primitive” form to the modern form used today. Rather, he is able to show the history of the footnote as a…

role popular culture plays in its history. The background surrounding the Kent State Shootings needs to be explained and uncovered in a variety of ways. The reader must be able to understand the zeitgeist of the 1970s, the culture of Kent State University, what happened to spark the Kent State shootings, how popular culture internalized the shooting through various mediums and then generated a collective memory, and how popular culture has affected the history of the Kent State shooting.…

seeking students on many things that are essential to every career. Without being educated in the humanities, students are missing out on skills and information that are not taught in the STEM subjects such as foreign language, culture, history, literature and philosophy. The humanities subjects should be incorporated into the STEM curriculum so that students can focus on their career path as well as learn things that are significant to their career as well as their everyday life. The humanities…