The communion of human being with history: historiography and comprehension
The communion of human being with history: historiography and comprehension

Summary/Abstract: Thinking of history and historical truth requires a special report to the notion of interpretation, according to which the past is recomposed through philosophical methods. Henri Irénée Marrou defines comprehension as ”the dialectic of the same with the Other”, as a dialogue involving the existence of a broad base of fellowship between subject and object, between the historian and the man who is revealed through the document, in a state of mind that makes us connatural to others, allows us to experience their passions, to rethink their ideas under the same light wherever they saw them. For Marrou, the ”other” is the historical past (De la connaissance historique).

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