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연계 안된 지문이라서 어디서 해석을 찾을 수도 없어서 여러분께 질문을 구합니다 !! ㅠㅠ
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history is ideal, because it is past, not present. historical thinking, however, can make the past both ideal and actual.
historical thinking is one of the human abilities that develop in history; it leads to the development of historical knowledge.
historical knowledge is mind reflecting on its own actions and development, and thereby coming to know itself ( to know its abilities), by knowing what the human mind has been capable of in the past. history, then provides the self-knowledge of action as reason, determining human nature. this self-knowledge of history as reason must, in turn, become creative of history and human nature. historical thought, by bringing to light history as the story of self-creation, brings about the power of self-creation.이게 전체 지문이구요
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