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3. HISTORYVersion 1.5 September 2022 (Previous Version) ( Paragraph 1 Trans Error: Unknown )Why bother with history? Is it of any practical use? What can we learn from it? Isn’t history all about dead people, old wars and ancient empires? ( Paragraph 2 Trans Error: Unknown )Can we actually work out what really happened? Can we ever know what caused major events to happen? Or can we only look at individual stories and feel overwhelmed by the complexity? ( Paragraph 3 Trans Error: Unknown )Can looking at the major events in history help us understand how we should behave on a personal level or as a society? Can history help with religious beliefs? ( Paragraph 4 Trans Error: Unknown )Most people probably accept that we should learn the lessons of history. But what are they? ( Paragraph 5 Trans Error: Unknown )History is fascinating, but complicated. ( Paragraph 6 Trans Error: Unknown )Most of us have a limited knowledge of history, focussed on our ethnicity, religion or nationality. There are often great disputes over what historically occurred, which events are more important, and what lessons can be drawn. Some will see the same events but draw different conclusions. ( Paragraph 7 Trans Error: Unknown )· Many focus on politics and economics, using the past to support or oppose governments now. ( Paragraph 8 Trans Error: Unknown )· Many people, both conservatives and radicals, invent an idealised time in the past that they think was better than today, when people were supposedly more moral, or more sharing. ( Paragraph 9 Trans Error: Unknown )· Some religious people see in history the work of God, hundreds or thousands of years ago, or evidence for the divine, or proof that their sacred texts are true revelations, or prophecies. ( Paragraph 10 Trans Error: Unknown )· Racists and nationalists interpret the history of their ethnic or national group as evidence of their moral superiority and that ancient atrocities show the descendants of old enemies are vile. ( Paragraph 11 Trans Error: Unknown )We begin our history by explaining how humans spread to all the continents, and the local geography influenced how civilisation developed in Eurasia (the Middle East, India and China) and the Americas (North and South), but struggled in Africa and didn’t arise in Australia. We cover technological developments and the spread of knowledge, especially across Eurasia, the rise and fall of the colonial period, the slow advance of human rights, the world today, and future trends. ( Paragraph 12 Trans Error: Unknown )It is said that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. History provides lessons on what is likely to happen in some situations, but historical lessons are less certain even than those from science. ( Paragraph 13 Trans Error: Unknown )History shows how changing technology and commerce changes our perception of what is possible and can restrict our imagination and hence our outcomes. They define ‘norms’ that are taken as given, known knowns, when they are really misleading, illusory inaccuracies, or simple untruths. ( Paragraph 14 Trans Error: Unknown )We look at history under the following headings, to see what is worth learning from each period: ( Paragraph 15 Trans Error: Unknown )
History, like science, doesn’t tell us what we should do: it doesn’t lead directly to core values. But we learn from history that freedom, a derived value, and democracy, an effecting value, promote our core values of truth, diversity, life, love, responsibility, equality and hope. ( Paragraph 32 Trans Error: Unknown )History also shows how ancillary virtues, such as courage, duty and honour, can support evil purposes as well as good ones. We can respect that an adversary shows courage, or is doing their duty by their country or culture, while at the same time saying that their ultimate goals are flawed. History shows ancillary virtues are not core values, not good choices in themselves. They are only to be valued when they are in support of worthy causes consistent with our core values. ( Paragraph 33 Trans Error: Unknown )
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