p38-lightning t1_itvya28 wrote
You can't project today's values back to the people of the past. We should just look at them warts and all. Acknowledge whatever contributions they made to civilization without putting them on a pedestal.
SpaceInMyBrain t1_itx13rs wrote
>You can't project today's values back to the people of the past.
Indeed. This is actually a principle subject in the field of historiography - the study of how historians present history. This can differ by generation or another demographic. The term for it is modernism, the application of the worldview of one's (academic) generation to the history of previous decades or centuries.
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