Re:The Life of a Lawyer in the Late Roman Republic
by ffhhttt on Saturday August 12, 2023 @02:40AM
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Yes but a quite often when you don’t actually understand what you’re looking at those patterns and analogies end up being imaginary.
Re:The Life of a Lawyer in the Late Roman Republic
by coldtea on Saturday August 12, 2023 @03:03AM
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I think a much larger problem is that most people are not looking at the past at all, and know very little about it except what they've seen in some movie or, at best, some documentary. Rather than people making distorted analogies based on a less than functional understanding of it.
Engaging to the past "on it’s own terms" is noble.
But refusing or failing to find patterns and analogies (lest they not be "perfect"), and to engage with the past as a store of experience to learn from, and leverage the past to inform your understanding of the present, renders the whole point of studying the past a moot endeavor.