From_Antiquity_To_Enlightenment_

From Antiquity To Enlightenment: From Antiquity to Enlightenment: Changes in the Objectivity of Written History, and the Continuance of Two Major School’s in Written History. All human actions make up history. Indeed everything that has been done in the past has influenced our future in some way. However, while there are some coincidences and likenesses found in history and our present, it is impossible to say that the present is based on the past. One thing that can be certain is that the written history of man is based on one thing: perception. Depending on the author, whether you are Herodotus, Ptolemy, Machiavelli, or Van Ranke, history has always been written from the perception of the author who has written it. It is these perceptions that influence the way we view history today, and even formulate perceptions of our own. One of the major trends in written history that must be looked upon is not in the way histories were written, or even what they were written about, but the manner of objectivity they were written. In other words, one of the greatest trends, and most changing, is the change in the reasons for writing the histories of history, written, writing, one, two, ranke, herodotus, von, been, writers, while, thucydides, future, thought, school, present, past, story, schools, purpose, period, marx, make, however, himself, first, fact, even, writes, way, towards, out, move, major, important