"[W]as free science to be identified with the science without presuppositions of which Mommsen had spoken? It has often been forgotten that Mommsen himself, in a second statement, toned down the concept, in the sense of maintaining that being without presuppositions was only the «ideal goal, towards which every man of conscience tends, but which no one reaches nor can reach". Even then this slogan did not entirely convince me, and I soon went further, seeing in the assumptions under which we study not only a hesitation with which we must seriously struggle, but also a source of spiritual strength that we cannot do without. unless. This too is part of the contradictions and antinomies of life, which us struggle, pain and happiness. In the painful experiences we have had since 1914, we have begun to learn to understand these irrefutable antinomies more clearly."
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Friedrich Meinecke
1862 – 1954
deutscher Historiker
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