History

"Athas, like all the worlds of the multiverse, changes with the passage of time. And, like all worlds inhabited by Humans, time is marked by the occurrence of great events. Here is a chronicle of great events and the changes wrought by time's relentless passage."darksun.wikia.com
: The main problem with objective periodization lies with the nature of time itself which, though we may experience it as a series of discontinuous "nows", can only be understood logically as a single indivisible flow. As the historiographer and philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955 c.e.) has so aptly put it, "in his individual and fleeting today man will see, foreshortened, the whole of man's past still active and alive. For we can only throw light on yesterday by invoking the day before yesterday; and so with all yesterdays. History is a system, the system of human experiences linked in a single, inexorable chain" (from the essay History as a System, section VIII).billheidrick.com
The progression of history is a series of apocalypses stacked on top of each other.— oldyoonis 27june19In both East and West, we may trace a journey which has led humanity down the centuries to meet and engage truth more and more deeply. It is a journey which has unfolded — as it must — within the horizon of personal self-consciousness: the more human beings know reality and the world, the more they know themselves in their uniqueness, with the question of the meaning of things and of their very existence becoming ever more pressing. This is why all that is the object of our knowledge becomes apart of our life. The admonition Know yourself was carved on the temple portal at Delphi, as testimony to a basic truth to be adopted as a minimal norm by those who seek to set themselves apart from the rest of creation as “human beings”, that is as those who “know themselves”.― Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), «Fides et Ratio: On the Relationship Between Faith and Reason»in conceiving itself as the configurative orstructuring consciousness of itself in the world (or universe), mind is endowed with a history rather than a mere nature or past.. […] Once there is a history ofhistory, there is the possibility of abolishing what is given in history― Negarestani, Reza, «Intelligence and Spirit», Falmouth, Urbanomic, 2018, p. 2.Peter Greenaway (the filmmaker) lectures on how history is a branch of literature.
== Branching ==
* See: Human history; Apocalypse; History of Science; Revelation; Intellectual progress; Evolution
* Accelerationism; Thanatography; Cyclicalism; Cycles of history; Historical law; Historiography
* End of history; Historiogenesis; Historical event; History repeats itself
Category:History