Burckhardt o histórii

According to Burckhardt, there were no 'golden ages in the past or in the future.' To recognize this was to free oneself 'from foolish overvaluation of some period or other in the past, from equally foolish renunciation of the present, and from foolish hope in the future.' No one, in other words, may abdicate responsibility for making moral and political choices by adopting a pessimistic view of history as inevitably degenerative, or, alternatively, by blindly embracing an optimistic philosophy of history, in which historical success determines the rightness or otherwise of historical acts, events and movements. Lionel Gossman: The Sulking Corner of Europe: Burckhardt's Basel and the Critique of the Modern, v Zeev Sternhell (ed.): The Intellectual Revolt against Liberal Democracy, 1870-1945; International Conference in Memory of Jacob L. Talmon, s.49

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