How Long to Read Judging the Past

How Long Does it Take to Read Judging the Past?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 7 minutes to read Judging the Past by Geoffrey Scarre

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book presents an extended argument for the thesis that people of the present day are not debarred in principle from passing moral judgement on people who lived in former days, notwithstanding the inevitable differences in social and cultural circumstances that separate us. Some philosophers argue that because we can see things only from our own peculiar historical situation, we lack a sufficiently objective vantage point from which to appraise past people and their acts. If they are correct, then the judgements passed by twenty-first-century people must inevitably be biased and irrelevant, grounded on moral standards that would have seemed alien in that 'foreign country' of the past. This book challenges this relativistic position, contending that it seriously underestimates our ability to engage imaginatively with people who, however much their lifestyles may have differed from our own, were our fellow human beings, endowed with the same basic instincts, aversions, desires and aspirations. Taking a stand on a naturalistic theory of human beings, coupled with a Kantian conception of the equal worth of all human members of the Kingdom of Ends, Scarre argues that historical moral judgements can be sensitive to circumstances, fitting and fair, and untainted by anachronism. The discussion ends by examining the implications of this position for the practice of historians and for the ethics of memory and commemoration.

How long is Judging the Past?

Judging the Past by Geoffrey Scarre is 244 pages long, and a total of 61,976 words.

This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 76% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Judging the Past Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 38 minutes to read Judging the Past aloud.

What Reading Level is Judging the Past?

Judging the Past is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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