'The Heritage Post'

1 . Georg Wilhelm Hegel (1770-183) is a thinker of western philosophy. Hegel points out defects in his own time and focused on the role of central power, need for new institutions and educated officials. His works ‘The phenomenology of spirit’, ‘The science of logic’ and ‘Elements of the philosophy’ of right helps us to clear his thoughts about the past and politics as his views are related to politics and political institutions much.   Hegel mentions a historian should be a person who can bring out the ideals from the past which can compensate for the blind spots of present. Hegel asks one to learn from his/her contradictory ideas because it can possibly can have some bits of truth and ideas which looks unappealing to us and should ask to “what silver of sense and reason might be contained in otherwise frightening or foreign phenomena”. What we can derive from his philosophy or understanding could be that history can provide new solutions to a present situation. And in moving fro...

  1 . Herodotus was a Greek scholar who was born in Halicarnassus. He is known as ‘Father of history’ and ‘Father of lies’ by Cicero and Plutarch respectively (some famous Greek philosophers). Herodotus’s way of writing history is through stories and narratives. Herodotus is known for his work ‘Histories’ which brings a new method of looking at events, breaking the early methods prior to him of recording pasts as list of events only, with no efforts to explain their causes, but he brought a new method of recording the past. Herodotus started looking at the past with an observation of causes for events from both the sides to understand the reason for any incident. So, he looked for reasons to reach a conclusion about something, he thinks rationally in a sense to produce an outcome. Herodotus brings the aspect of critical inquiry from his work ‘Histories’. His work Histories is of course cannot be considered as a true history in today’s context but all his narratives are not complet...

1. E.H.Carr didn’t studied history academically nor he had any Ph.D. degree in history but his journey as a historian starts when he joined the ministry of information’s foreign division and worked as a clerk, he witnessed some historical events like Paris peace conference, treaty of Versailles etc. which has an impact on his career as a historian he took academic posts also. He observed Russian revolution which inspired him towards history his one more memory as an undergraduate student where he got influenced from one of his professor who argued that “Herodotus’s account of Persian wars in the 5 th century BC was shaped by his attitude towards the Peloponnesian war”(Source- www.newstatesman.com ). Going through E.H.Carr’s views what I can interpret is that history is an interpretation of facts, a historian’s view towards looking any event, but a historians view also depends on the contemporary situations of his/her time. One more aspect of looking towards history is the interpret...