Implicit Morality

Let us strive then to think well; that is the first principle of morality. Pascal, Pensées, 1670 ABSTRACT Most historians today have abandoned the aspiration to a kind of scientific objectivity in their work—pace their postmodernist critics. Yet we cling nonetheless, with a touch perhaps of hypocris...

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Main Author: Cracraft, James 1930- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley 2004
In: History and theory
Year: 2004, Volume: 43, Issue: 4, Pages: 31-42
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