So, if I am to fit in to this broad academic world I’ve put myself back in (why I did so isn’t readily coming to mind at the moment), I must toss aside a number of antiquated notions I possess. Among them are:
1. Absolute Truth exists
2. God exists
3. Marx was an idiot
4. There is, in fact, such a thing as the “right answer”
5. Hegel was an idiot
It turns out, real academes are firmly of the opinion that no one can have a firm opinion about history, because no one can look at history objectively. This much, I agree with—one cannot conduct a totally unbiased survey of the past. However, I got no issues with deciding that the Judeo-Christian survey is the best one. My professors would beg to differ.
Of course there's no such thing as an unbiased history. To claim to be unbiased is biased.
ReplyDeleteGood luck!