This essay is well thought-out and written well. I enjoyed hearing both sides of an argument use the same points for, or against, the case. I found the term presentism quite interesting and how people take present-day ideas and place them in the context of the past. I found agreement in both sides, because they presented their points well enough to persuade me to agree with them. I feel that the author didn’t exactly beat down a minor issue, because it created a key point for him.
Presentism is taking ideas and values from today and looking at history with those ideas and values in mind. This can be a problem, because it adds to the ideas and values of the time and today’s ideas may have been out of sight in the past. With presentism you hurt the past by corrupting it with today’s corruption. We distort what was the original purpose to something with presentism and this can really do some damage on the past.
My views on Thomas Jefferson haven’t changed at all from reading......
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