HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scientific Revolution, Industrial Revolution, Individualism
18 Sep 2017
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Value of history doesn"t come from memorizing a set of facts. Pushes us to examine and understand context over the text alone: without context temporal, social, cultural, political we cannot attempt to understand the past. The study of history is the construction and debating arguments about the meaning of the past: all we have are the traces, memories, records, artifacts, we have to interpret them. Studying history teaches valuable life skills: how to ask cogent questions, seek appropriate and valid answers, think logically, cogently, lucidly and with purposes, understand the preoccupations of our own times, the importance of historical debate. Pushes us to understand the unique and the general, to value both objectivity and subjectivity. In what we call the west" the word had generally negative connotations. Prior to about 1800, it was associated with repudiation of the renaissance and of classical learning.
