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Historical Understanding and Historical Appraisal

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This paper focuses on probing the intrinsic relationship between historical understanding and historical appraisal, maintaining that understanding history and the appraisal of its value are parts and parcel of the study of history in its entirety. My claim is that subjectivity in the appraisal can be integrated with objectivism in understanding. Not only is understanding history merely in the service of factualism, but can also be utilized for finding out how the past would impose its influence upon present social progress. If only we could combine the appraisal of value with the understanding of historical facts, we could create a complete process for our research.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    History: Issues of Methodology, p. 93.

  2. 2.

    Ibid, 101.

  3. 3.

    Ibid, 102.

  4. 4.

    Ibid, 102.

  5. 5.

    Ibid.

  6. 6.

    Yuan. Study on the Problems of Objectivism in Historical Understanding. (2000), pp. 67–69.

  7. 7.

    Liu. History in People’s Mind. (1987), pp. 91–93.

  8. 8.

    Peng. Forest Lives Through History. (1997), pp. 15–18.

  9. 9.

    Ibid, 7.

  10. 10.

    Li. Theories and Methods of History Study. (1989), p. 231.

  11. 11.

    “Afterword to the Second German Edition”, Capital, K. Marx, in Anthology of Marx and Engels. Vol. 2. (1995), p. 107.

  12. 12.

    Yuan. On the Problems of Objectivism in Historical Understanding. (2000), p. 190.

  13. 13.

    The Historian’s Craft., translated by Zhang Hesheng and Cheng Yu, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Publishing House, (1992), p. 12 .

  14. 14.

    Ibid.

  15. 15.

    Pattern and Meaning in History: Thoughts on History and Society, the Preface of Chinese translation, pp. 2–4.

  16. 16.

    Ge. Lecture Series for the Study on History of Thought: Vision, Perspective, Method. (2005), pp. 90–91.

  17. 17.

    Li. Discuss Historical Ontology. (2003), pp. 123–125.

  18. 18.

    Ge. Lecture Series for the Study on History of Thought: Vision, Perspective, Method. (2005), pp. 90–91.

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Huang, K. (2013). Historical Understanding and Historical Appraisal. In: Li, D. (eds) Values of Our Times. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38259-8_16

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