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Single Idea 19605

[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / d. Study of history ]

Full Idea

No one has found a valid goal for history; but everyone has proposed one.

Gist of Idea

Despite endless suggestions, no one has found a goal for history

Source

E.M. Cioran (A Short History of Decay [1949], 1 'The Indirect')

Book Ref

Cioran,E.M.: 'A Short History of Decay', ed/tr. Howard,Richard [Penguin 2010], p.27


A Reaction

This seems to be an attack on the Hegelian idea of destiny that suffused both marxism and fascism in the 1930s.