书目名称 | History as a Social Science | 副标题 | An Essay on the Natu | 编辑 | Folke Dovring | 视频video | | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | This essay has grown out of an attempt to find the answers to problems basically inherent in the making of historical re search. Widespread among humanists is a vagueness of con cepts which many times makes it difficult or impossible to translate our way of thinking into the terms of natural science or vice versa. It sounds, sometimes, as if humanistic studies were a world of its own, rather than a part of the natural world we all1ive in. How long can we go on believing that there are different kinds of knowledge ~ To this conflict of theory, another is added: a feeling of urgency about cultural problems that are too often left to the future to solve. History is not, as some natural scientists tend to believe, a matter of no practical consequence. It is a virulent factor in political and social conflicts and a basic substance in the structure of our personalities. The present dynamic epoch raises with particular stress the problem of understanding the conditioning influence which the past exercises upon the present in each particular community. Such a substance is neither a toy for pastime hobbies nor an innocent weapon in the hands of dictators. Which is, then, the responsibilit | 出版日期 | Book 1960 | 关键词 | conflict; natural science; nature; objectivity; science | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6425-2 | isbn_softcover | 978-90-247-0333-3 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-011-6425-2 | copyright | Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1960 |
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