Can We Judge the Past?
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as posted by the channelI have often been told, generally in old undergraduate history classes and in non-professional historical settings, that it is not the role of the historian to say whether past events were 'right' or 'wrong'. But this logic is generally only applied to very particular instances, and exceptions are always made for those most over-used examples of Hitler, Stalin, etc.
So, this begs the question, is it possible to pass judgement on the moral agents of the past? And, if so, is it a reasonable or responsible thing to do?
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