A historian’s job is to interpret and analyze the past whereas a human scientists goal is to look for ways to alter the future or mold it into something favorable. While looking at history, human sciences and reasoning, one will come to see that historians and human scientists through the dialectic process correlate and also differentiate. The knowledge issues are, how certain is it that human sciences do not look into the past in order to understand the future? As well as how does one know that historians when examining history are not looking into the past to find ways to alter the future? Historians cannot directly look back and observe the past in regard to this, historians have to rely on past evidence and human events in order to gain …show more content…
Professor Eric Hobsbawm is a prime example of a historian who had dedicated the majority of their life to studying the history of others. Hobsbawm has even written books on modern history and never tried to determine the future within them. Hobsbawn decide to explore history since at the time it was banned in a way of sorts and he used the knowledge and understanding that he gained to use to his advantage which he could have applied to the future. The limitations to this is that one cannot truly say that he did not think about the future as he studied …show more content…
A prime example of a human scientist who used their knowledge and finding to look towards a better future is Jean- Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau is a philosopher who in his first major work he argued that the progression of sciences and arts has cause the corruption of virtue and morality. This could mean that the advancement of human sciences has impacted the world by causing a disruption that allows the human scientists to predict somewhat of what's to come in the future. Jean- Jacques Rousseau was one of the few philosophers who acknowledge that the future can be changed for the better. Limitations of this example include not being able to examine the work of literature first hand. Meanwhile, human scientists also only look deeper into their fields just to study the effects of behavior to come up with ethical reasons or cures for the present and not necessarily for the future or is trying to change the future. One can notice that history and human sciences are similar that they both require research and looking at the past in order to determine what actual happened. Also these two areas of knowledge are similar in the notion that with the proper research and evaluation that certain patterns can be determined in order to change the outcome of