WWB Trainer
Key Ideas
Topic:
Philosophy of History
Timeless ideas at the intersections of science, philosophy, critical thinking, and history.
MODE:
~
4 minutes
of short abstracts.
Philosophy of History.
Some random key ideas.
1.
Historical tales are empirical ideas. We believe these evidence-based reconstructions of real past events with varying degrees of confidence. We can prove or disprove their related empirical implications.
2.
Quote:
- E. H. Carr.
- 1961.
From History:
Meaning:
Carr’s 1961 quote reminds us that facts do not become history by themselves. History emerges when evidence is selected, organized, interpreted, and placed into a meaningful story.
3.
From History: 1946
Collingwood helped show that history is not just collecting facts. It is the disciplined reconstruction of past human thought and action from surviving evidence.
4.
History is not a separate Truth Hammer. It is a disciplined extension of journalism into the past. Using historical traces scientifically and like a reporter, historians create stories of the past like a journalist.
5.
A new look at dividing up the paleolithic era switches from lower, middle, and upper to Stone, Fire, Cultural, Symbolic, Cognitive, and prehistory ending specifically at 4,000 BCE.
7.
Historical belief should rise only as high as the evidence behind the story. Watch for contemporaneous evidence, testimony, and surviving relics.
9.
“Middle Ages” is the accurate term, but “dark” still captures a real regression in human thought.
Done. Refresh for another set.
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