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Conversations That Matter

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The Ethics of Presentism

There is an ethical dimension to presentism. Are we judging the past by standards that come from, if you're a Christian, the Bible or are we judging them by the standards of our time? As I was saying before, the discipline of history has a postmodern undercurrent today in the way it's practiced. It's all about our fight for equality.

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