The case for historical relativism

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Autor(a) principal: Barak, Jim A.
Data de Publicação: 1976
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/9842
Resumo: BARAK, Jim. The case for historical relativism. Revista de Ciências Sociais, Fortaleza, v.7, n.1/2, 1976, p.27-36.
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spelling The case for historical relativismHistoricalRelativismPractice et theoryFact and interpretationBARAK, Jim. The case for historical relativism. Revista de Ciências Sociais, Fortaleza, v.7, n.1/2, 1976, p.27-36.Historians frequently remark in private conversation that while philosophers may demolish historical relativism regularly in theory, it remains a compelling and cogent account of the practice of historical writing. Historical relativism seems to be one of those cases where the problem involves the phenomenon of "Its all right in practice, but will it work in theory?" Philosophers have a way of construing relativism to mean things which are trivial, absurd or contradictory. Then "relativism" is quickly refuted, the philosophers having demonstrated that a little quick analysis obviously dispels the fog created by naive historians untutored in the mysteries of logic, epistemology and metaethics. For example, they suggest that relativism means that everyone has his own truth and then proceed to demonstrate laboriously that "x is true to me" does not accurately report the standard usage of the term "true"...www.rcs.ufc.br/edicoes2014-11-19T14:43:35Z2014-11-19T14:43:35Z1976info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfBarak, J. (1976)0041-8862 (impresso)2318-4620 (online)http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/9842Barak, Jim A.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessporreponame:Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)instname:Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)instacron:UFC2023-11-14T19:29:52Zoai:repositorio.ufc.br:riufc/9842Repositório InstitucionalPUBhttp://www.repositorio.ufc.br/ri-oai/requestbu@ufc.br || repositorio@ufc.bropendoar:2023-11-14T19:29:52Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) - Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)false
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title The case for historical relativism
spellingShingle The case for historical relativism
Barak, Jim A.
Historical
Relativism
Practice et theory
Fact and interpretation
title_short The case for historical relativism
title_full The case for historical relativism
title_fullStr The case for historical relativism
title_full_unstemmed The case for historical relativism
title_sort The case for historical relativism
author Barak, Jim A.
author_facet Barak, Jim A.
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dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Historical
Relativism
Practice et theory
Fact and interpretation
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Relativism
Practice et theory
Fact and interpretation
description BARAK, Jim. The case for historical relativism. Revista de Ciências Sociais, Fortaleza, v.7, n.1/2, 1976, p.27-36.
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