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The document discusses the challenges of understanding history through only modern perspectives. It notes that the voices of the past are lost to us as we cannot directly experience the sounds and environments of the past. The historian must attempt to channel the voices of the past into the present through their work, but this brings contemporary biases that can obscure our understanding of the past. Recognizing how senses like hearing have been framed in modern philosophical and religious thought can help
- Author
- num lock
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- EN