The present realizes what was essential in the past

Evidence

History therefore is neither to be rejected nor repudiated, and most definitely not to be seen to be a constant and unchanging backdrop against which simplistic and somewhat superficial understandings about Muslims and Islam can be easily contextualised. Instead, history and its paradigms must instead be used as a framework of reference to contemporarily assist and explain contemporary understanding. The power of history is therefore quite different to that which Sardar et al suggests. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 203 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The only way Augustine can find to avoid these contradictions is to say that past and future can only be thought of as present: ‘past’ must be identified with memory, and ‘future’ with expectation, memory and expectation being both present facts. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1391 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The past informs the individual but can be re-captured through successive choices.; Augustine defines past and future as present memory and expectation — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1391; History frames current understanding rather than predetermining it — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 203 (+15 more)

Related

• History frames current understanding rather than predetermining it (similarity 0.86)
• Augustine defines past and future as present memory and expectation (similarity 0.82)
• History illuminates current Islamophobia but not as a fixed or reliably accurate backdrop (similarity 0.80)
• Today’s Islamophobia is continuous with, not unique from, historical precedent (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The past informs the individual but can be re-captured through successive choices. #expands (0.85)
• History frames current understanding rather than predetermining it #corroborates (0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 203
• Augustine defines past and future as present memory and expectation #exemplifies (0.80) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1391
• Lived life always experiences the present as stretched with past and future #expands (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 803
• Life alone realizes time by transcending the present in both directions #qualifies (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 808
• Analyzing the present requires tracing its anterior genealogical conditions of existence #corroborates (0.80)
• The future now plays the same rhetorical role the pastoral past once played #qualifies (0.75) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 755