tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post8648245434893001063..comments2023-10-06T11:13:20.836-04:00Comments on Izgad: Guidelines for Studying HistoryIzgadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03869626126435460209noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-12488880744820186402011-10-08T03:12:00.511-04:002011-10-08T03:12:00.511-04:00Yes, the idea that there can be a fully objective ...Yes, the idea that there can be a fully objective view of history is a delusion (and precisely the kind of delusion that Hitler suffered from, believing, as he did, that his understand of the role of Jews in history was "objective"). <br /><br />But I too disagree with Clarissa's idea that you only read history to study the historian. It's just that one needs to be aware of the Steve Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11283123400540587033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-22818193398886954552011-09-17T06:15:49.467-04:002011-09-17T06:15:49.467-04:00Nowadays professors justify their views, not by a...Nowadays professors justify their views, not by arguing that they are the truth, but by arguing that truth doesn't exist! Karl Marx, the father of the "power relations" theory of ideology, would have had no difficulty understanding the self-serving nature of such ideas: "The bureaucratic class thereby pursues its own self-interest."<br />The feminist movement just pickedAvraham https://www.blogger.com/profile/07822433921393627746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-90487399443436245602011-09-17T06:02:22.821-04:002011-09-17T06:02:22.821-04:00"There can never be a fully objective account..."There can never be a fully objective account of history"." So "Hitler murdered millions of Jews"--is just my subjective opinion. It is clearly a biased value judgment. I ought to be embarrassed of myself and hide myself in some hole until I can express politically correct opinions.Avraham https://www.blogger.com/profile/07822433921393627746noreply@blogger.com