Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane
Category: The Importance Of History In Our Own Lives?
-
The Inner Level and The Sphere of Wordviews
“…development can be adjusted to experience… …What matters is the quality of social relationships. Early development is shaped by whether we find ourselves growing up in a world where we must be ready to fight for what we can (except when deferring to dominants), learning not to trust each other because we are all rivals…
-
Professional History Practice and The local Philosophy Café, republished from PHA (Qld) E-Bulletin April 2019
This is the conclusion of the introductory summary for the April meet-up on ‘the Age of Revolution and Nationalism’. Hopefully, then in seeing the importance of these ‘lesson plans’ the argument is well-grounded, not only that there is a groundswell for adult and community education for the higher learning of the humanities, but that…
-
The Past as Instinctive and the Past as Thought
Illustrated Image: ID 45497563 © Agsandrew | Dreamstime.com Perception as animal instinct is ‘as it happens’, one moment after another’ a habitual succession of association. As Hume points out, we do not perceive causality. It is the thought which constructs our human reality. Association becomes more structured and more tightly experienced, as time-space, and…
-
Remembering Armistice — Really?
Historia, the news bulletin of the Professional Historians Australia, has published my short analytic article on the Royal Historical Society of Queensland ‘s conference, ‘Remembering Armistice’, on Saturday 16 February. To find out more, click here.
