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The history of our abstract thought is therefore an essential part of understanding ourselves as historical phenomena.
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Changes in our thinking and understanding alter our very relationship to nature (including social phenomena)
(Tractatus Philosophicus by Wittgenstein)
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Every generation and civilization tends to think of its own way of thinking about the world (and about thinking itself) as somehow “natural.”
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Intellectual history—the study of human intellectual behavior over time—teaches us, however, that our thought has a history, of which our way of thinking is the product.
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Learning that history, we see our own thought in relationship to its origins and to the often unintended consequences of those origins.
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Intellectual history is not the analytical or normative history of philosophy. Our goal is understanding the past as the past.
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The philosophical history of philosophy rightly asks about the truth value or power of prior ways of thought.
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Intellectual history explores the past in the spirit of the cultural anthropologist, not to judge of its merits or demerits, but to understand it, as much as is possible, on its own historical terms.
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HTWORG & YACED BY OCIV..are we to simply EGDUJ?
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We shall not ask, therefore, who was wise or foolish but, rather, how the world looked from different perspectives, what debates and dilemmas produced what new ways of thinking, what emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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If we succeed, we should observe and understand more deeply nothing less than the birth of the MODERN MIND.
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The intellectual revolution of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was far more profound in its consequences for the human condition than any political or social revolution of the early modern period..
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If a culture changes the way it thinks about truth, nature, the knowable, the possible and impossible, and the causes of things, it will alter its expectations and behavior in almost all areas of human life.
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If a culture changes the way it thinks about using mind properly, it changes the way that it thinks about almost everything.
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A conceptual transformation is not confined to areas of thought alone.
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Example: to change one’s evaluation of the force of inherited intellectual authority is to change one’s whole attitude toward authority in general.
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To change one’s attitude to the limits and possibilities of human life is to change one’s expectations of and relationship to almost everything around one.
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The seventeenth century brought a conceptual revolution in often very abstract terms. It initiated a
struggle for who shall be the teachers of a civilization and what will be the lessons taught.
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The eighteenth century brought a revolution in culture marked by the popularization of the conceptual
revolution of the seventeenth century and by an extension of its consequences to new areas of human
thought and activity.
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