The Dangers of Presentism

Presentism is an extremely dangerous and uninformed way of looking at the past through the lenses of modern society. By judging and analyzing societies in the past and applying modern morals and ethics to them, historians fail to gain a real understanding of the events that happened and why they happened. It is important when analyzing historical events to try to study the culture of the time period and to remove one from inputting present day morals and values. I will need to be mindful of the dangers of presentism when writing my paper for senior seminar paper in order to make the best paper possible.