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Is the present the key to the past or the past the key to the present? : James Hutton and Adam Smith versus Abraham Gottlob Werner and Karl Marx in interpreting history / A.M.C. Şengör

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Şengör, A. M. Celâl
Published
Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2001.
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x, 51 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

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Contents
Actualism and uniformitarianism : definition and some implications. Religious roots of nonactualistic thinking in history -- Definition of history -- Fundamental problem of historical disciplines. Hume's Law. Incompleteness of the historical record -- Historical disciplines versus natural sciences -- Historical science in the hands of Adam Smith and James Hutton. Smith's and Hutton's work on the knowledge of the past in relation to the philosophy of David Hume. Adam Smith (1723-1790). James Hutton (1726-1797) -- Historical science in the hands of Abraham Gottlob Werner and Karl Marx. Abraham Gottlob Werber (1749-1817). Karl Marx (1818-1883) -- Evolutionary theories of Hutton, Smith, Werner, and Marx : a comparison.
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ISBN
0813723558
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 44-51).
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