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SEMINAR in HISTORY
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I.INTRODUCTION
A. MeaningofHistory:AnAnalysisoftheVariousDefinitionsofHistory.
B. HumanNatureandHumanHistory:AnAnalysisoftheNatureofManandtheValueofHistory.
C. NatureandCharacteristicofHistory
WE L CO M E
MEANING OF HISTORY
AN ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS
DEFINITIONS OF HISTORY
• Greek word historia originally meant
inquiry, the act of seeking
knowledge, as well as the knowledge
that results from inquiry.

HISTORY
• a chronological record of significant
events (such as those affecting a
nation or institution) often including
an explanation of their causes
• -MERRIAM -
WEBSTER

HISTORY
• may be employed in two quite different senses: it
may mean (1) the events and actions that together
make up the human past, or (2) the accounts given
of that past and the modes of investigation
whereby they are arrived at or constructed.
-Encyclopædia
Britannica

HISTORY
 • "History is ... a dialogue
between the present and
the past.”

Edward Hallett Carr

According to some Historians:
 • History is both a humanities and social
science; “the historian uses the
scientific method in investigating his
materials, he uses the methods known
to the humanist in breathing life into
the past”

Teodoro Agoncillo
According to some Historians:
 • History deals with the past, not
with the future. We use history to
avoid the mistakes of the past, not
to recreate the very same events.
You cannot.

Teodoro Agoncillo
According to some Historians:
 • “History is the recorded struggle of people
for ever increasing freedom and for newer
and higher realizations of the human person.
But the struggle is a collective one and as
such involves the mass of human beings who
are therefore the motivators of change and of
history.”

According to some Historians:

Renato Constantino
 • History is not just about the
perspectives of the “winners.”
History takes the importance of the
common man or the “masses” into
account.

Reynaldo Ileto
According to some Historians:
 “Hindi lahat ng nakaraan ay
pwedeng BALIKAN….
Pero ang lahat ng nakaraan ay
pwedeng HIGITAN.”
 E B R E AK E R
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 HUMAN NATURE AND HUMAN HISTORY:
Analysis of the Nature of Man and the Value of History

Presented by: Raquel B. Cariño

HUMAN NATURE

AND HUMAN

HISTORY
GENESIS 1:26-28 NIV Biblical Perspective on
HUMAN BEINGS

26 - Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in

our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea
and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild
animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the
ground.”
27- So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
28- God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and
increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over
the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every
living creature that moves on the ground.”
GENESIS 2:7,18,21 7- Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from
the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath
of life, and the man became a living creature.
18- Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the
man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit
for[e] him.”
21- So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon
the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and
closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the
Lord God had taken from the man he made[h] into a
woman and brought her to the man.
DARWINS THEORY ON EVOLUTION OF MAN
Darwin supports the statement that
modern humans evolved from some
kind of ape-like creature. During this
evolutionary process, which is
believed to have started from millions
of years ago, it was stated that there
existed some transitional forms
between modern man and his
ancestors
 DARWINS THEORY ON EVOLUTION OF MAN

- Australopithecus, which is nothing but a type of

4 Basic Groups ape that has become extinct, is found in various
forms. Some of them are bigger and stronger
and robust, while others are small and fragile
1. Australopithecines
and weak.
2. Homo Habilis
3. Homo Erectus - Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, the
4. Homo Sapiens evolutionists imply that each of these types is the
ancestor of the next.
 NATURE OF MAN
-God created man as a tripartite being, composed of
body, soul, and spirit (1 Thessalonians 5.23; Hebrews
4.12).
- Man had the potential to live forever by eating from
the Tree of Lives, (Genesis 3.22).
- God gave man a body with five senses: taste, touch,
sight, smell, and hearing to perceive and enjoy the
external world.
- God gave man a soul composed of mind, will, and
emotion. Through mind, man can reason, through
will, he can choose, and with emotion, he can
appreciate the perceptions of his mind and senses.
Lastly,
Man’s Original Nature
- God gave man a human spirit through which he
could communicate with and appreciate God.
Man’s Fallen Nature

We sin because we are sinners. That is

our nature as a result of Adam’s
disobedience. Just as a good tree
produces good fruit, a sinner produces
sin.

Man’s Nature After Disobedience

God’s Salvation Package
Justification Past (when one believes)
Sanctification Present (life until death)
Glorification Future (death and
resurrection)
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to
all men, 12 instructing us to deny ungodliness and
worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and
godly in the present age, 13 looking for the blessed hope
and the appearing of the glory of our great God and
Savior, Christ Jesus, 14 who gave Himself for us to
redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for
Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for
good deeds (Titus 2.11-14).

New Nature of Man After Salvation

 THE VALUE OF HISTORY

IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING HISTORY

1. The Past Teaches Us About the Present

Because history gives us the tools to analyze and explain

problems in the past, it positions us to see patterns that
might otherwise be invisible in the present – thus
providing a crucial perspective for understanding (and
solving!) current and future problems.
 VALUE OF HISTORY

2. History Builds Empathy Through Studying the

Lives and Struggles of Others

Studying the diversity of human experience helps us

appreciate cultures, ideas, and traditions that are not our
own – and to recognize them as meaningful products of
specific times and places. History helps us realize how
different our lived experience is from that of our
ancestors, yet how similar we are in our goals and
values.
 VALUE OF HISTORY

3. History Can Be Intensely Personal

In learning about the past, we often discover how our own

lives fit into the human experience.

4. “Doing” History is Like Completing a Puzzle or

Solving a Mystery
Imagine asking a question about the past, assembling a set of
clues through documents, artifacts, or other sources, and
then piecing those clues together to tell a story that answers
your question and tells you something unexpected about a
different time and place. That’s doing history.
 VALUE OF HISTORY

5. Everything Has a History

Everything we do, everything we use, everything else

we study is the product of a complex set of causes,
ideas, and practices. Even the material we learn in other
courses has important historical elements – whether
because our understanding of a topic changed over time
or because the discipline takes a historical perspective.
There is nothing that cannot become grist for the
historian’s mill.
References:

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Human+Evolution+Illustration&form=IRBPRS&first
=1

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201:26-28&version=NIV

Good News Bible pp 1-2

https://www.academia.edu/17536763/Theory_of_the_Origin_of_Man_by_Charles_Darwin

https://doctrine.org/nature-of-man

https://history.wisc.edu/undergraduate-program/history-careers/why-history/
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NATURE AND
CHARACTTERISTI
CS OF HISTORY
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Characteristics of
HISTORY
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Interpretation: History is subjective and open to

interpretation.
Evidence: Historians rely on primary and secondary
sources.
Change over Time: History shows how societies and
cultures evolve.
Causality: Events in history often have multiple causes.
Continuity: History also highlights enduring traditions and
values.
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HISTORICAL
METHODS
• Primary Sources
• Secondary Sources
• Archaeology
• Oral History
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CHALLENGES IN
STUDYING HISTORY
Bias in Sources
Historical Revisionism
Historical Amnesia
Cultural Differences
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