PPT 1 Flashcards
Has always been known as the study of the past
History
HISTORY Was derived from the Greek word ___, which means
knowledge acquired through inquiry or investigation
historia
HISTORY
As a discipline has existed for around 2,4000 years and as
is old as ___ and ___
mathematics, philosophy
The term history was then adopted to classical ___, where it acquired a new
definition
Latin
became known as the account of the past of a person or a group of people
through written documents and historical evidence.
Historia
History can refer to two things. First, history relates to everything that had
happened in the past. Second, history also refers to a kind of research or inquiry. (True or false)
True
is a discipline or a field of study and investigation that is primarily
concerned with human activities done in the past.
History
HISTORY | THREE DIMENSIONS
- First history’s focus on human activities. This focus makes it different from, say,
theology, because theology is concerned with the divine and not human beings. - History, as a field of inquiry, generally falss in the sciences, particularly to the
social sciences. - Finally, history is concerned with the past
is an essential philosophy that would
serve as a vital anchor of the scientific method
Positivism
In history, positivism created the mantra of “______.”
no document, no history
positivism also has set of limitations (Ture or False)
True
In the relatively recent past, ___ and
__ used history to unite a nation and to legitimize regimes by forging a sense of collective identity through the manufacture of social memory.
states, governments
History helps humanity to acquire a sense of self knowledge. As British historian ___ elegantly put it, “Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what he can do until he tries, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.”
R.G. Collingwood
