History is the study of the past, with special attention to the written record of the activities of human beings over time. But the question lies whether history is relevant or not and if it really is then what is its importance. Hence arise numerous perspectives leading onto conflicting emotions as a result of an effort of justifying individual reasoning.
Do we learn nothing from history? All the tales and stories of past kings, countries, cultures, religions, etc, do they give us accurate knowledge from which one may be able to learn something? In my personal opinion I think so. Even though history is not always proved, it does have its perspective of its own from which a knower may learn from whether they are in reality learning of the whole truth or not. Learning can be in any form, good or bad, for the positive or negative, it is all a part of learning. For example in 1912 the ocean liner Titanic was considered the safest ship afloat but hit an iceberg and sank on its first voyage. This gives out a clear message that nothing in this world can be really relied on completely as everything in the world has its drawbacks may it be the safest ship in the world or anything else. Based on this example another reasoning can also be drawn; if this event would not have occured there would probably not have been any major technological advancement in the nautical industry of the world, no improvement in ships for instance would take place.
Another thing we learn from history is not to make the stupid mistakes that generations before us have made. However this generalization may aslo be refuted with another:
For example, governments repeat the same mistakes every time. Britain built an empire, colonised half the world at one time, and so did the Nazis. Politics is the same mistakes repeating themselves. Sometimes they get away with it, sometimes they don't. It is no longer countries that seek Empires but ideals. Thereby, it may be argued that if we learned from History, these ideals would never have been allowed to enter our world.
Even a simple social issue may be essential. The Bra Burning movement: In the late 1960s, some of the emblems of femininity became targets of feminist activism. Feminists charged that these objects, typified as patriarchal, reduced women to the status of sex objects. Some women publicly disavowed bras in an anti-sexist act of female liberation. As a result of this movement the women of the world have been released (though not completely) from the clutches of sex discrimination. History hence is a boon her,e as educated human beings learn to respect the opposite sex.
However, it should be realised that what is important to learn from history is more important than what we individually want to perceive. That is the reason why the question of for and against comes up because we as knowers have not realized what should be true and what should not. It's not that we DO learn from or mistakes, it's that we SHOULD learn from our mistakes. If we don't learn from the mistakes of the past it will happen again. The world has blindly derived something out of nothing and thus does not not know what to be considered as a lesson from history and what a boon.
Do we learn nothing from history? All the tales and stories of past kings, countries, cultures, religions, etc, do they give us accurate knowledge from which one may be able to learn something? In my personal opinion I think so. Even though history is not always proved, it does have its perspective of its own from which a knower may learn from whether they are in reality learning of the whole truth or not. Learning can be in any form, good or bad, for the positive or negative, it is all a part of learning. For example in 1912 the ocean liner Titanic was considered the safest ship afloat but hit an iceberg and sank on its first voyage. This gives out a clear message that nothing in this world can be really relied on completely as everything in the world has its drawbacks may it be the safest ship in the world or anything else. Based on this example another reasoning can also be drawn; if this event would not have occured there would probably not have been any major technological advancement in the nautical industry of the world, no improvement in ships for instance would take place.
Another thing we learn from history is not to make the stupid mistakes that generations before us have made. However this generalization may aslo be refuted with another:
For example, governments repeat the same mistakes every time. Britain built an empire, colonised half the world at one time, and so did the Nazis. Politics is the same mistakes repeating themselves. Sometimes they get away with it, sometimes they don't. It is no longer countries that seek Empires but ideals. Thereby, it may be argued that if we learned from History, these ideals would never have been allowed to enter our world.
Even a simple social issue may be essential. The Bra Burning movement: In the late 1960s, some of the emblems of femininity became targets of feminist activism. Feminists charged that these objects, typified as patriarchal, reduced women to the status of sex objects. Some women publicly disavowed bras in an anti-sexist act of female liberation. As a result of this movement the women of the world have been released (though not completely) from the clutches of sex discrimination. History hence is a boon her,e as educated human beings learn to respect the opposite sex.
However, it should be realised that what is important to learn from history is more important than what we individually want to perceive. That is the reason why the question of for and against comes up because we as knowers have not realized what should be true and what should not. It's not that we DO learn from or mistakes, it's that we SHOULD learn from our mistakes. If we don't learn from the mistakes of the past it will happen again. The world has blindly derived something out of nothing and thus does not not know what to be considered as a lesson from history and what a boon.
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