Why learn history made by chance

Why learn history made by chance


Every point in history is a crossroads. The path from the past to the present was one fork, but from here to the future there are countless forked paths. Some are more likely to be chosen because they are wider, flatter, and well-marked, but sometimes history moves unexpectedly.


Humans cannot explain the choices made by history, but they can make important discoveries about those choices. It is the fact that the choices of history are not made for the sake of mankind. There is no evidence that human well-being inevitably improves as history unfolds. There is no evidence that a culture that is good for mankind will necessarily succeed and spread, or that a culture that is less goodwill disappear.


the determinism of history,


What is the difference between 'how' and 'why' in history?


Explaining the 'why' means finding a causal relationship that can explain why this event happened, not why other events happened.


History as a discipline is that the more we know about a particular historical period, the more difficult it becomes to explain it. People with only a superficial knowledge of a particular era tend to focus only on the possibilities that are realized. Based on realization after death, it explains why such a result was inevitable with a theory that neither proves nor disproves.


Those who know the era best, that is, those who lived in that era, are the ones who don't know it the most. What appears to be inevitable by realization after death is not at all obvious at that time.


The choice of history is not made for mankind. The dynamics of history are not oriented toward improving human well-being. History has a wide horizon with a myriad of possibilities, many of which have not been realized.



Still, why study history?


Studying history is not to know the future, but to broaden the horizon. To understand that the present situation is neither natural nor necessary. The result is to understand that there are more possibilities than humans can imagine.

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