Historical knowledge tends to objectivity, the absence of which can cast doubt on the fact that truth is available to historical knowledge. In the theory of knowledge, the subject and the object considered as two completely contradictory sides. True knowledge means the correspondence of the subject's knowledge about the object, while the object belongs to the material, physical world. However, the purpose of knowledge can be ideal - for example, in case of the history of thought, philosophy, or the study of the motivation of human behavior. Objective understanding defined as a lack of bias or judgment, while subjective perception depends on individual’s opinion. Then, is there such a thing as objective knowledge in history?
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Francis Bacon points out that the historical knowledge of truth is often distorted by "idols" own addictions of man. The historian seeks to restore the moments of the past, relying on social facts and artifacts. As Oscar Wilde said, The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it, because subjectivity lies in knowing to try to identify the term by giving a name to what has changed, what has become different. The first biographer of Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones, deliberately hid the predilection to cocaine, confessing in a press in one of the letters. Impossible until the end of the hut from the influence of politics. C. Beard, who noticed somehow, that "history is politics, I will overturn- In the past, in which each generation of sits his story. " During the Civil War Era, African black people were usually depicted as primitive persons who lived in tribes, believed in witchcraft according to Gregory Eiselein in 1996. The historian takes part in history - not only in the sense that the past is passed about the reality but also in the sense that formerly living people are part of the same humanity. Methodology for documents not up to the end of the research creates an open dispute on its objective side, but a subjective interpretation of the various
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Francis Bacon points out that the historical knowledge of truth is often distorted by "idols" own addictions of man. The historian seeks to restore the moments of the past, relying on social facts and artifacts. As Oscar Wilde said, The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it, because subjectivity lies in knowing to try to identify the term by giving a name to what has changed, what has become different. The first biographer of Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones, deliberately hid the predilection to cocaine, confessing in a press in one of the letters. Impossible until the end of the hut from the influence of politics. C. Beard, who noticed somehow, that "history is politics, I will overturn- In the past, in which each generation of sits his story. " During the Civil War Era, African black people were usually depicted as primitive persons who lived in tribes, believed in witchcraft according to Gregory Eiselein in 1996. The historian takes part in history - not only in the sense that the past is passed about the reality but also in the sense that formerly living people are part of the same humanity. Methodology for documents not up to the end of the research creates an open dispute on its objective side, but a subjective interpretation of the various