The discipline of the history of political thought is an investigation of what ideas from the past are continuous with the present and which are discontinuous in the present. It's exactly the same question as: "How our past has constituted us?"
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Revolutionary breaks in thought processes did not only apply to the mathematical world and the world of empirical science but could also apply to metaphysics, and had also applied to the moral history of mankind.
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The birth of modern science, as far as Kant is concerned, is not simply a collection of new observations. Kant believed that people developed new hypotheses which transform our way of seeing things.
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