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The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
- Peter L. BergerPhoto by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
- Peter L. BergerOur institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship...
Even if one is interested only in one's own society which is one's...
But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist...
Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy...
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory,...
Our history is that we can very aggressively if necessary and openly and...
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the...
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
This is where the search for meaning had led our medieval ancestors: to the certainty that God, who made all of creation, had scattered clues to the useful functions of creating things in those things, and that only a little vigilance was necessary to decode those clues. Simpling was but the most basic of this kind of learning; the search for Signs, as undertaken by the sixteenth-century German humanist Paracelsus, was a further extension of the same idea.
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