historyk a socjolog

Cytat za Davidem Shapsem (The Invention of Coinage and Monetization of Ancient Greece):

de Ste. Croix, Class Struggle (34): There are very great virtues in the traditional approach of the historian, the essence of which—the insistence on recognising the specificity of the historical situation in any given period (and even area)—must not be abandoned, or even compromised, when it is combined with a sociological approach. Indeed, anyone who is not capable (whether from a deficiency of intellect or from lack of time or energy) of the great effort needed to combine the two approaches ought to prefer the strictly historical one, for even mediocre work produced by the purely fact-grubbing historian may at least, if his facts are accurate and fairly presented, be of use to others capable of a higher degree of synthesis, whereas the would-be sociologist having insufficient knowledge of the specific historical evidence for a particular period of history is unlikely in the extreme to say anything about it that will be of use to anyone else.

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Komentując komentarze zacytujmy Senekę:
"Żadna rzecz, choćby była bardzo wyborna i zbawienna, nie sprawi mi przyjemności, jeśli mam poznać ją sam jeden."
(Listy 6.4)

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lektury wieczorne

Nadmiar książek zaś powoduje roztargnienie
Seneka, Listy moralne do Lucyliusza, 2.3