The study of history places too much emphasis on individuals. The most significant events and trends in history were made possible not by the famous few, but by groups of people whose identities have long been forgotten.
When we concern ourselves with the study of history, we become storytellers. Because we can never know the past directly but must construct it by interpreting evidence, exploring history is more of a creative enterprise than it is an objective pursuit. All historians are storytellers.
o) 首先必须承认我们对于过去的了解只能通过史料,包括古代建筑,文学作品,民间传说,留存的艺术作品等等来完成。从这个角度说历史的确是一种创造性的事业。比如通过兵马俑terracotta warriors and horses来推算秦朝军队的作战方式,根据他们的穿着,他们的排列和残留的兵器,但是很多的东西由于长时间在地下都腐烂了,不能完全的展现当时的的样子
p) 但是这并不意味着它不追求客观,实事上,历史必须是建立在事实的基础上的,而且这种推断是由客观规律和依据的,否则它就是myth了。每个朝代每个时期有自己独特的文化,科技水平,生活方式,这些都唯一的代表了一个时代。比如现代人生活中的手机,电脑,家里的电视如果千年以后都可以被认为是这个时代的产物。因此,探索历史是一种对于客观的追求。
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