The Ethics of History by Carr, David

The Ethics of History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810120273)

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The Ethics of History by Carr, David

The Ethics of History

$32.95
The Ethics of History by Carr, David

The Ethics of History

$32.95
Format: Paperback
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What is implied by "ethics of history"? The authors of this volume, internationally renowned philosophers and intellectual historians, address this question in all its novelty and ambiguity and develop varied perspectives on the place and nature of ethics in the philosophy, enterprise, and practice of history. Is the whole historical process--largely consisting of the actions and sufferings of persons and groups--subject to ethical constraint? And what of the ways in which historians present their subject matter; are these methods subject to moral scrutiny? Although they approach these issues from different directions, the contributors agree in their critique of the correspondence theory of history, tin their acceptance of an unbridgeable gap between the past and the historian's present account, and in their call for a revision of the popular appeal to historical objectivity.

Author: David Carr
ISBN-10: 0810120275
ISBN-13: 9780810120273
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/30/2004
Pages: 263
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.10w x 0.91d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2005 pg. 1602
By David Carr
By David Carr
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David Carr is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Philosophy at Emory University.

Thomas R. Flynn is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University.

Rudolf A. Makkreel is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Philosophy and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Emory University.

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