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本帖最后由 irvine666 于 2009-2-4 17:37 编辑
应当全面的认识理解和研究历史
1.研究历史源自于对过去的总结
2.历史的研究反映了全社会对于经验的重视
3.单纯研究一方面的历史无法全面的总结过去
4.人类研究历史的同时是为了创造历史
TOPIC: ISSUE103 - "The study of history has value only to the extent that it is relevant to our daily lives."
WORDS: 714 TIME: 01:15:00 DATE: 2009-2-4 下午 04:59:02
Seldom can human beings realize what truly happened in the past, for there is a gap, which is not knowledge, technology, or ideology, but personal experiences, hindering in the way to the reality. As the study of history help human beings jump out of the confine of contemporary lives, the research of the verity is important for people to better know the beneficial and detrimental aspects of historical incidents, and hence better reveal what they are doing in modern epoch and what they should do in the future.
Apparently, the research of history stem from the concluding and utilizing of the bygones. Extracting experience and draw a lesson, people thus could predict what would happen in the future. They could not merely sustain and promote profitable or valuable decisions, but also avoid and abnegate gratuitous and pestilent resolutions. No social development or individual breakthrough could be obtained without the experiences and ultimatenesses drawn by historians, predecessors or contemporaries of people. Revealing the lives of forebears, human beings could thereby accelerate the individual perfection, and further establish a flourishing and affluent world.
inevitably, since citizens nowadays care more about their living standard and self-actualization than any other "trifles", the study of history relevant to daily lives of people, is regarded as the best approach to understand and comprehend the development of society and individuals, as a result of common sense indicates that the most persuasive and potent lessons or conclusions derive from the same or similar experiences of ancestors. Admittedly, historic precedents relevant to daily lives guide individuals to cushier ways to reach out to success, to plan for elaborate projects of self-realization, as well as to look for perfect solutions. Ruminating the policies of economic crisis in the 1930s, the US government and citizens could thus devise more scientific and comprehensive plans, for example, to stimulate individual consumption and official infrastructure to rejuvenate global economy, and then weather the credit crunch. Nonetheless, human beings could never solve the essential issue, why our complex species behaves as it does in societal settings, when they renunciate to consider other aspects of historic experiences except for the one merely relevant to daily lives.
Actually, were its concept defined as Benedetto Croce, human beings observe, analysis, criticize, as well as epitomize history, when they simultaneously participate and create history, in other words, "All history is contemporary history". The pith of history, empirical and eternal as it is, including moral and ethical thought, academic disciplines, natural environment, evolution of species and so on, is by no means constituted by only the lives of forebears. Some people may argue that for history offers all the demands that press in from living in the present and anticipating what is yet to come, people could learn enough from the research of history linked merely to lives, to improve their lives and to predict their future. Nevertheless, how can war be evaluated if the nation is at peace, unless people take previous war in to account? How can the influence of technological innovation be understood, if people don't utilize the industrial or agricultural experiences in the past? And how can a harmonious state of world, where human beings and natural species living in concomitance and further promote the development of each other, emerge when people only concern with their daily lives selfishly? Absorbing the experiences of history of rebuilding postwar Japan, the Bush Administration, for instance, put forward the notion that the United States would manage to guide Iraq toward a free and democratic reconstruction along the lines of the previous case, World War II recovery of Japan. Synthesizing all information of human beings and world, citizens could thus grasp the behavior, the impulse, and the ideology of human beings, as well as the development and downturn of the world.
As is mentioned above, where there is no history, there is no development. Whenever human beings endeavor to consummate their lives both in the current and in the future, they would turn to history to eliminate the ignorance of experience. History is utilized by the sophisticated to mourn the victims, to assimilate experiences and lessons from the prominent persons, and to foster the fledglings. Hence the individual and social achievement could never be obtained unless people work over comprehensive and overall subdisciplines of history. |
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