Historical Perspectives On Social

Your NameCourse TitleProfessor s Name30 June 2008Historical Perspectives on SocialThe Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is one of the outstrip examples of political thought and international relations . If President George W Bush were to read this historical work , he would make for into account the nature of political relations between the states , the opinion of the state and ideas of war and its virtue . The most Copernican lesson is that philosophy may , but science cannot know of any cause adapted of bringing to pass the plague at a little moment in her history , or of any cause subject of producing that fatal eclipse of the moon which completely immobilized the already frightened men of Athens at the last moment when leave out was still possible from the hands of a vengeful and inexorable foe . For history these are and must remain spotless connectives (Lewis et al 62 . Therefore , to those who take for granted the self-denying edict of history they must be relegated to the realm of the incalculable . It is important to notice that in these , as in other cases , it is the coincidence itself which does not yield to any form of prognosticationPresident Bush would accept the view that Scientific history , as Thucydides argues has nothing in common with imaginative literature , but consists in the nimble and unremitting search for truth , and it has its own standards of evidence equivalent to the evidences of medicine which are under favorable conditions adequate (Hanson 82 . The truths of history like those of medicine consist first in the actual transactions which have taken place and these , horizontal if they are subjects of first-hand knowledge , should be accepted only subsequently most careful check with the results of independent observations . Next deign the formulations--summaries and at the same time interpretations--in so far as these entered into and affected the course of events .

With regard to the transactions themselves , Thucydides notes in admittedly scientific fashion the common dangers to which the historian is exposed , the psychological perils arising from moral bias , defective recollection , as rise up as the carelessness and lack of observation characteristic of adult male (Lewis et al 92George W . Bush would agree that the state represents an endeavour to reconcile divergent interests and realize common interests deep down a given territory , the implied harmony of purpose being needs imperfect , but nevertheless sufficient in every cases to keep society together . But , science never regarded such interests as being completely realized within the framework of an individual polity (Lewis et al 64 Thucydides underlines that the phylogeny of Greece had led gradually but surely to the concept of Hellenism as a wider whole , within which the interests of individual city states , although partly underwater , still found a certain recognition through with(predicate) one or other of the competing systems of alliance into which fifth-century Hellas was divided . And fair as within the autonomous state , the law of the personality reflected the balance of interests which for the moment was realized , so also , for Hellenism as...If you insufficiency to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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