Thank you very much for the participations, I am honored that my question got your attention ... those who don’t have history don’t understand the value of the present and feel the success of the future. Best Regards.
History is important. However, it does not necessarily determine our present and/or future!
Alaa - We have to know our history because its study is important as it can tell us how we evolved and help us in knowing what decisions worked in particular situations in the past and what didn't. The point is that we should not repeat the same mistakes as our forefathers had done. History is a great teacher. Historical significance is the process used to evaluate what was significant about selected events, people, and developments in the past.
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I do not not at all agree with Hassan Izzeddin, and here's why?
History is as much important and Vital to our present time as it is to our future.
Around the world, certain activities of Man reckon the repeat of history in many facets of life. Politically speaking, socially, economically, religiously, you name it. There are specific irreducible elements of past recorded history that serve as Harbingers of hat is to come in the future or what is to be in the present.
We see vindications of this even in literary works of Great thinkers and Novelists. As they mirror events of the past and show how these events affect the present and the future, they underscore no less a truth than the notion that History Repeats itself, and has done so on multiple occasions and still continue to do so.
Historians pen down events of posterity to guide the generation to come and to offer up ready specimen examples of the consequences of certain societal choices.
Take for example, the Dark Ages that oversaw The Vatican's vicious rulership, domination, tyranny against religious and political dissidents. As a result, the Continent of America was founded to pave way for those seeking true religious liberty of worship away from the tyranny of the Vatican Popery. Religious liberty and Democratic values today are the hallmark of the American Society.
Yet recently, these values have come under severe THREATS from Enemies of Democracy and Religious liberty, who would rather obliterate America's history and impose on it some crooked form of fascism , totalitarian and autocratic government with absolute indignation, contempt and disdain for her religious, political and social values that birthed the American Society.
Today, we are grappling with a tiny minuscule nucleus of powerful oligarchs and aristocrats, and plutocrats, commanding over 80% of the word's wealth, dictating the affairs of the Nations. May i say that, they are not seeking to consolidate on Democratic values, and neither are they seeking to ensure the continued hallowed protection and guarantee of fundamental human rights and values.
So what are they doing?
They are essentially and desperately trying to rewrite history, obliterate it and compromise it, so that coming generations or Even present generations are effectively rendered impotent in determining for themselves what actions to take and what value to adopt.
So Yes, history is most necessary in charting the course of humanity's destiny.
On an economic level, economic problems or existential challenges are recurring indices through time. And they do recur because certain economic positives have not been adopted or have been neglected.
See Stock Market Crashes in the West as an example of repeated historical economic events that should ordinarily shape economic decisions and prompt policy makers and stakeholders to have a cautious approach to dealing with economic problems and issues.
On a Social level, All the Wars fought on the planet earth in the name of whatever reason behind it had ONE CONSEQUENCE- Devastatingly Casualties of unimaginable proportions. The question is : seeing all this: how do we stop a repeat of that ugly history? If the same actions that led to that calamity in question, is endorsed again, the results and the consequences cannot be any different. It has to be the SAME, cause, history must repeat itself.
Its an underlying Law of Natural causes.
Society Reaps What it Sows! If it sows good seed consistently, it will reap same consistently; If it sows bad seeds consistently, it MUST REAP SAME CONSISTENTLY too.
There are no two ways about it.
So, it is actually not a correct statement of fact to say or affair that history is blind and therefore has no bearing on the present or the future.
Cause, I'll tell you now, if that is not propaganda, then it is a distortion however, unintended.
Dear Victor
I think that your post has a good point because it is real that History tends to pass again, and again....
However I think that your example with a despotic Vatican to explain American colonial interprise is false by many reasons. What you said was similar to what happened to English settlers of North American, but the opresor was the English goverment (The King was the Anglican chief of their Church) and the oppresed were the Puritans (who founded the Colony of Massachuset), Catholics (who founded the Colony of Maryland after more than 100 years of persecution), and others that came for other reasons. Beside the natives of the English Colonies were opressed, repulsed, and killed, without any legal recognation.
In Hispano America, meanwhile, where the Pope was very influyent, the Spanish people came to found a new place of living with the natives, who were evangelized from the beginning and who were recognized as subdits of plain right and protected by the King and the Church. That is one of the reasons because most of hispano american speak Spanish and are Catholics. The evangelizers studied the native languajes, gave them gramatica and wrote dictionaries and cathecisms bilingues. The evangelizers studied the native languages, gave them grammar and writing, and did many bilingual works: dictionaries, catechisms, which can be consulted today. The Guaraní for example is the official language of Paraguay and the second language of the provinces of Corrientes and Misiones in Argentina. Furthermore, in the case of the Jesuit and Franciscan missions, they were taught by nomadic natives who lived in recurrent wars among them, to live peacefully, agriculture, livestock, private property, solidarity with widows and the sick, taught them to self-govern civilly and they gave skillful natives training in all the arts.
Thank you very much for the participations, I am honored that my question got your attention ... those who don’t have history don’t understand the value of the present and feel the success of the future. Best Regards.
Studying history is important because it allows us to understand our past, which in turn allows us to understand our present. If we want to know how and why our world is the way it is today, we have to look to history for answers. People often say that “history repeats itself,” but if we study the successes and failures of the past, we may, ideally, be able to learn from our mistakes and avoid repeating them in the future. Studying history can provide us with insight into our cultures of origin as well as cultures with which we might be less familiar, thereby increasing cross-cultural awareness and understanding.
Moreover, history connects the past with the present. History matters because it helps us as individuals and as societies to understand why our societies are the way they are and what they value. ... The answer is that History is inescapable. It studies the past and the legacies of the past in the present.
certainly, it is very important to know its history. but we must not rely too much on for building our future, especially, since this science is not exact and full of untruths and lies that can not always be verified.
As it seems to me, history (like most sciences) consists of two parts. The first - "theoretical" - is the science of the past of mankind. Initially, this was the circumscribing about activity of "great people", who mostly were heads of states. Later it was modified to the history of nations, states, cities etc. and method changed from "description" to "understanding" (see, for example, the "Annales school" - École des Annales).
The second part is the “applied history” used mainly in politics, both external and internal. As for the prognostic potential of history, I am very skeptical about this. Everyone tends to learn from their own mistakes ...
Dear Guillermo,
Nice to have you again!
When I cited the Vatican as an example in the explanations, I was referring to the 1000 year period in human history popularly referred to by secular scholars as the DARK AGES. It is essentially the darkest hour of European History conflated with politics and religion.
Its not False at all. There are innumerable evidences in history as to what that period meant for those in the opposition to the Holy Roman Catholic Empire as it was known.
I have historical records and facts of events to effectively prove that the example is in order.
Dear Victor
It is extemporaneous too because the Dark ages is a period usually defined between 500 to 1000 AD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)), but the American Discovery and colonization began with Spanish (Castillan) and Portugal in 1492. The English colonization of north America began after 1600 AD.
One should distinguish between history as the past and history as a science. Knowledge of the past is necessary both to preserve one’s identity and not to repeat mistakes in the future. However, our knowledge of the past is often mythological. In the human mind, an image of an ideal past is often formed, which is perceived as real. It is these mythological images that are used as political arguments.
Science history is designed to overcome these mythological images based on a documentary study of the past. As the number of sources expands, new research methods appear, the conclusions of historical science are changing.
History allows us to establish the sequence of events, the objectivity of the described facts and draw conclusions about the causes of events.
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