L1 The Meaning of History Flashcards
derived from the Greek word “historia”.
HISTORY
the meaning if “historia”.
Learning by Inquiry
This Greek philosopher looked upon history as the systematic accounting of a set of natural phenomena.
Aristotle
theories constructed by historians in investigating history
Factual History & Speculative History
it presents readers the plain and basic information, the events that took place, usually answers questions what, when, who.
factual history
it goes beyond facts because it is concerned about the reasons for which events happened - why, and the way they happened - how.
speculative history
deals with the study of past events.
history
individuals who write about the history. they seek to understand the present by examining what went before.
Historians
they undertake arduous historical research to come up with a meaningful and organized rebuilding of the past.
historians
this is the basic question that historians need to answer.
“whose past are we talking about?”
the practice of historical writing
historiography
this is a traditional method in doing historical writing research that focus on gathering of documents from the different libraries and archives to form a pool of evidence needed in making a descriptive or analytical narrative.
historiography
this means the whole history of the past
history-as-actuality
this means can only be known through the surviving records
history-as-record
this history is only a tiny part of the whole phenomenon
history-as-record
they study the records or evidence that survived the time, and tell the story from what they understood as a credible part of the record. however their claims remain variable
Historians
this is what historians aim
verisimilitude
Verisimilitude means
the truth, authenticity, plausibility about a past
TRUE or FALSE. The study of history is a subjective process as documents and relics are scattered.
TRUE
the process of critically examining and analyzing the records and survivals of the past
Historical Method
the imaginative reconstruction of the past from the data derived by that process
Historiography
TRUE or FALSE. historians are advised to reconstruct as much of the past of mankind as they can.
FALSE
this historical method historians investigate, collects, and examine sources
Historical analysis
incompleteness of records has limited mans knowledge of history
limitation of historical knowledge
objects or things that have since been forgotten or the experience of generation long dead.
artifacts or documents
