Alternate History
This page is somewhat indirect in its approach to Alternate History as such -
it is however very persuasively about the alternate approach to history
that is based on the philosophy of Kant and Emerson - (and this, as detailed below,
can lead us to a possible view of an Alternate History for Humanity).
"A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of
roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have prepared a series of history pages that consider actual events and attempts
to demonstrate how the promptings of Human Nature, as illustrated in the above image,
can tellingly motivate human-historical actions.
"History is for human self-knowledge ... the only clue to what man can do is
what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done
and thus what man is."
R. G. Collingwood
This series of pages begins with a consideration of
the Revolution of 1848 that we very much hope persuasively illustrates two
principles:-
- that Human Nature does underlie human-historical actions!!!
- that a consideration
the Unfolding of History can yield important clues to as "what man is" through an appreciation of
"what man has done"!!!
The Revolution of 1848 begins
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Niall Ferguson
