KONŠTRUKTIVISTICKÉ CHÁPANIE HISTÓRIE A JEJ ETICKÁ DIMENZIA

• Authors: Šuch Juraj

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Constructivist understanding of history and its ethical dimension

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The author of the article introduces Hayden White’s, Frank Ankersmit’s, and Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen’s constructivist understanding of history. He contrasts their understandings of history with the traditional understanding, which supposes direct correspondence of historical work to the past. In his presentations of constructivist thought, he points out their emphasis on legitimate possibilities of different methods of construction and ways of presentations, which result in different historical representations of historical events. Differences among historical representations of the past can also be related to the historian’s choice of different constructive methods and also the involvement of his/her preferred moral and political values. These constructivist understandings of history, with the deeper analysis of process writing, incite the historian to deeper ethical self-awareness of his/her work.

Keywords

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CONSTRUCTIVISM; PLURALITY; VALUES; HISTORICAL WORK

• Publisher: Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Historický časopis (Historical Journal)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 64
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 587 – 595

Contributors

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Šuch Juraj

• Katedra filozofie FF UMB, Tajovského 40, 974 01 Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic