"The fear of the Bastille and a hope for government pensions had a dismal effect on the historian's taste for truth and objectivity." Well and good – the fable teller was out and ready to produce. But did the fables reveal a teleological purpose? Voltaire must have reasoned that progress was possible – there must have been progress from a maleficent God who destroyed Lisbon to a disinterested God who had deferred his authority to destroy to an amoral nature...
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Without some definitive progress the pleasantries of the present age would not have been possible. There would be no Turgot, no Condorcet, no Diderot. What is being submitted is that it was never clear how that resulted. Was it Idea? Was it Spirit? Not free will, since free will is constrained. Not God who lies too high in the sky...
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Objectivity and subjectivity in History This is because, these African historians are ?prejudiced' against the Europeans for the latter had left their colonies in a state of abject poverty. Thus, through a critical analysis of the examples mentioned above, one can see that historical truths cannot be objective but subjective for historians, due to their inability to use all the sources at their disposal, are led by their personal ?prejudices' when choosing both primary and secondary sources to interpret events of the past...	6 / 1468
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A Historian Must Combine The Rigor Of A Scientist With The Imaginatio This way of knowing stresses systematic mathematical formulation and reasoning resting on the exact measurement of things. Many scientists would certainly approve this method...	6 / 1571
Edward Hallett Carr Carr compares the writings of Acton and Sir George Clark. Acton, who wrote in the later Victorian age, wrote with a sense of awe and admiration towards history, while Sir George Clark seemed merely bewildered by history...	1 / 198
Filter of History As with a persons memory of history being a filter so is that of a historian's pen, even though the reasons vary. This can be traced back nearly to the beginning of written history, though most examples are taken from the early Catholic Church...	1 / 228
Historians One of the many points is an in depth definition of history related profession. What are they trying to accomplish and how they work to get what they are looking for...	3 / 791
When mathematicians, historians and scientists say that they have explained something, are they using the word "explain" in the same way? If a historian inaccurately describes a past event then all of the history in that time is thought of in an incorrect manner. And when that happens it may as well change our history that we are creating today...	3 / 692