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Wilson Humanities Abstracts cites articles from some 400 English-language periodicals covering a wide range of disciplines in the humanities. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser known but important specialized magazines. Types of materials include feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, reviews, and original works of fiction, drama, and poetry. The database offers well-written, detailed abstracts describing the content and scope of the source articles for approximately 80% of the records.
USE FILE 436to locate articles on literary criticism, motion picture or book reviews, museum collections, drama interpretation, poetry, and a wide variety of other topics in the broad field of humanities. USE DT=to retrieve different document types including: feature articles, book reviews, biographies, poems, etc. To see a list of searchable entries, type EXPAND DT= |
Subjects covered in Wilson Humanities Abstracts include the following:
| ACRONYM | CATEGORY NAME |
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| ARCHITEC | Architecture |
| ARTS | Arts and Humanities |
| EDUCAT | Education |
| HISTORY | History |
| HUMANIT | Humanities |
| LANGUAGE | Language and Linguistics |
| PHILOS | Philosophy and Religion |
| POLISCI | Political Science |
| SOCSCI | Social Science |
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| DIALOG(R)File 436:Humanities Abs | |
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| AA= | 05394006 H.W. WILSON RECORD NUMBER: BHUA04144006 |
| /TI | Historians and Moral Evaluations. |
| AU= | Vann, Richard T |
| JN=,SO=,PD=,PY= | History and Theory (Hist Theory) v. 43 no4 (Dec. 2004) p. 3-30 |
| DT= | DOCUMENT TYPE: Feature Article |
| SF=,SN= | SPECIAL FEATURES: bibl f ISSN: 0018-2656 |
| LA= | LANGUAGE: English |
| CN= | COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION: United States |
| RT= | RECORD TYPE: Abstract RECORD STATUS: New record |
| /AB | ABSTRACT: The reappearance of the question of moral judgments by |
| historians makes a reappraisal of the issues timely. Almost all that has | |
| been written on the subject addresses only the propriety of moral judgments | |
| (or morally charged language) in the written texts historians produce. | |
| However, historians have to make moral choices when selecting a subject | |
| upon which to write: and they make a tacit moral commitment to write and | |
| teach honestly. Historians usually dislike making explicit moral | |
| evaluations, and have little or no training in how to do so. They can argue | |
| it's not their job; they are only finders of fact. Historians holding a | |
| determinist view of actions do not think it appropriate to blame people for | |
| doing what they couldn't help doing; for those believing there is an | |
| overall pattern to history, individual morality is beside the point. | |
| Finally, since earlier cultures had values different from ours, it seems | |
| unjust to hold them to contemporary standards. This essay modifies or | |
| rejects these arguments. Some historians have manifested ambivalence, | |
| acknowledging it is difficult or impossible to avoid making moral | |
| evaluations (and sometimes appropriate to make them). Ordinary-language | |
| philosophers, noting that historiography has no specialized vocabulary, see | |
| it as saturated by the values inherent in everyday speech and thought. I | |
| argue that the historicist argument about the inevitably time-bound | |
| limitation of all values is exaggerated. Historians who believe in the | |
| religious grounding of values (like Lord Acton) obviously disagree with it; | |
| but even on a secular level, morals are often confused with mores. If | |
| historians inevitably make moral evaluations, they should examine what | |
| philosophical ethicists--virtue ethicists, deontologists, and | |
| consequentialists--have said about how to make them; and even if they find | |
| no satisfactory grounding for their own moral attitudes, it is a brute fact | |
| that they have them. I end with an argument for "strong | |
| evaluations"--neither treating them as a troublesome residue in | |
| historiography nor, having despaired of finding a solid philosophical | |
| ground for moral evaluations, concluding that they are merely matters of | |
| taste. I believe historians should embrace the role of moral commentators, | |
| but that they should be aware that their evaluations are, like all | |
| historical judgments, subject to the criticisms of their colleagues and | |
| readers. Historians run little risk of being censorious and self-righteous; | |
| the far greater danger is acquiescing in or contributing to moral confusion | |
| and timidity. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. | |
| /DE | DESCRIPTORS: |
| Historians -- Professional ethics | |
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| None | None | All Basic Index Fields | Word | S MORAL(W)JUDGMENT? |
| /AB | AB | Abstract | Word | S MORAL(W)CHOICE?/AB |
| /CO | CO | Company Name1,2 | Word | S CIVIC(W)OPERA(W)HOUSE/CO |
| /DE | DE | Descriptor3 | Word | S HISTORIANS(L)PROFESSIONAL(W)ETHICS/DE S OPERA HOUSES/DE |
| /GN | GN | Geographic Name1,2 | Word | S UNITED(W)STATES/GN |
| /NM | NM | Named Person1,2 | Word | S SCHULER(1N)DUANE/NM |
| /TI | TI | Title | Word | S MORAL(W)EVALUAT?/TI |
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| AA= | AA | H. W. Wilson Record Control Number | Phrase | S AA=BHUA04144006 |
| AU= | AU | Author | Phrase | S AU=VAN, RICHARD |
| None | AZ | DIALOG Accession Number | ||
| BN= | BN | International Standard Book Number (ISBN)4 | Phrase | S BN=091005516 |
| CN= | CN | Country of Publication | Phrase | S CN=UNITED STATES |
| CO= | CO | Company Name1,2 | Phrase | S CO=CIVIC OPERA HOUSE (CHICAGO, ILL.) |
| CS= | CS | Corporate Source | Phrase | S CS=ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY |
| DT= | DT | Document Type | Phrase | S DT=FEATURE ARTICLE |
| GN= | GN | Geographic Name1,2 | Phrase | S GN=UNITED STATES |
| JN= | JN | Journal Name | Phrase | S JN=HISTORY 'AND' THEORY |
| LA= | LA | Language | Phrase | S LA=ENGLISH |
| NM= | NM | Named Person1,2 | Phrase | S NM=SCHULER, DUANE |
| PD= | PD | Publication Date | Phrase | S PD=200412? |
| PY= | PY | Publication Year | Phrase | S PY=2004 |
| RT= | RT | Record Type | Phrase | S RT=ABSTRACT |
| None | SF | Special Features | ||
| SN= | SN | International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) | Phrase | S SN=0018-2656 |
| SO= | SO | Source Information | Word | S SO=(HISTORY(1W)THEORY AND V(W)43 AND P(W)30) |
| ST= | ST | Record Status | Phrase | S ST= NEW RECORD |
| UD= | None | Update | Phrase | S UD=9999 |
4 Included in Book Review records only.
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| /NONENG | Non-English Language Records | S S4/NONENG |
| /YYYY | Publication Year | S S2/1995:1996 |
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| Display codes listed in the Search Options tables can be used to Customize output. | TYPE S4/AU, TI, SO /1-5 PRINT S5/AU,TI,AB/ALL |
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| 3 | Medium | Bibliographic Citation |
| 4 | -- | Full Record with Tagged Fields |
| 5 | -- | Full Record |
| 6 | Free | Title |
| 7 | Long | Bibliographic Citation |
| 8 | Short | Title and Indexing |
| 9 | Full | Full Record |
| K | -- | KWIC (Key Word In Context) displays a window of text; may be used alone or with other formats |
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