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In Reply to: RE: How to treat treatises posted by rbolaw on July 22, 2015 at 18:44:05
No doubt. But are we learning the right things? Much of the time, we certainly don't seem to learn the right things from history! ;-)
I feel that academicians too often make the wrong kinds of assumptions about the historical context of their subject and draw the wrong lessons from the historical record. And the much vaunted "peer review" in scholarly journals and academia can sometimes be nothing more than an enforcement mechanism for group think. I mean by this that if your contentions/scholarship are too out of line with the prevailing thinking, the editor of a given scholarly journal may not even allow your article to see the light of day.
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I am not kidding about my agreement with your post, Chris von LaFayette.
Your first paragraph -- and the first sentence of the second -- should be included in every study packet for those who aspire to learn from the past in every field of human endeavor. A phrase that my best teacher is fond of repeating: "Do not view the past through the eyes of the present." Without the proper context, an idea (or procedure or approach, et al.) cannot be understood with any degree of fullness. This self-induced blindness is not remotely limited to academe: it is endemic to the human race.
And your final two sentences are likewise pithy and precautionary for anyone interested in finding truth in any field.
And so say I!
Harrumph!
Double harrumph!!
-=- Charlie F.
And I ain't kiddin' about any of that ... except for the 'harrumphs' thingie.
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