Thirty2 Degrees

A historical perspective – change – can be for any field of knowledge, or philosophical well – its essence. In fact, you can do is that for the same story and the same time. If history is a social and human science, not abstracted is why is responsible for studying social processes: explain the facts and events of the past, either by the same knowledge, or by that help us understand the present: Cicero was baptized in history as teacher of life, 3 and as Cervantes, who also called her mother of the truth.4 Benedetto Croce commented on the strong involvement of the past in the present with its entire history is history contemporaea. History, to study the facts and processes of the human past, is a useful for the understanding of the present and consider possibilities for the future.5 Sallust arrived to say that you among the different occupations that are exercised with wit, the remembrance of the events of the past occupies a place noted for its great utility.6 A widespread topic (attributed to George Santayana) warns that the peoples who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it, 7 although another topic (attributed to Carlos Marx) indicates in turn that when repeats do once as a tragedy and the second as farce.8 The radical importance of this is based on that history, like medicine, is one of the sciences in which the researcher subject matches the object to study. Hence the responsibility of the historian: history has a projection into the future by its transformative power as a tool of social change; and professionals who handle it, historians, applies them what Marx said of the philosophers (until now have been responsible for interpreting the world and what is transform it).9 However, from another perspective is to a disinterested objectivity in historical science research.10 The philosophers seek solutions to concrete problems but pose the answers with a universal character, why Plato, when confronted with the political decomposition of Athens, after the death of Pericles, tyranny and corruption of the new democracy, and poses a definitive and universal solution the Republic that is utopian and theoretical, while the politicians of the time what they wanted were short-term, patches the problem solutionsrather than fix it from the foundations. .