Historians and their duties

History and Theory

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 103-117

  Gorman, Jonathan ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 60949695610     PISSN: 00182656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2303.2004.00300.x     Document Type: Review

References (31)

1. With apologies to Jerome K. Jerome.
2. Richard J. Evans, "History, Memory, and the Law: the Historian as Expert Witness," History and Theory 41 (2002), 330.
3. Gordon Marino, "Before Teaching Ethics, Stop Kidding Yourself," The Chronicle Review (February 20, 2004), http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i24/ 24b00501.htm (accessed September 30, 2004).
4. Derived from Carlin Romano, "Can Philosophers Help Handle Terror?," Inquirer review of Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and, Jacques Derrida (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), posted February 8 2004 on http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer.
5. See Jonathan Gorman, Rights and Reason (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003), chapter 2.
6. Berlin's position involves both factual and moral pluralism. See James Craeraft, "A Berlin for Historians," History and Theory 41 (2002), 277-300.
7. Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Ethics [1785], transl. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott, 10th ed. (London: Longmans, 1962), 10-11. My stress on "nothing."
8. Kant, Fundamental Principles, 5. My stress on "for the sake of."
9. Vincent Barry, Moral Issues in Business, 2nd ed. (Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 1983), 57.
10. F. H. Bradley, "My Station and Its Duties," in Ethical Studies, ed. Richard Wollheim, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), chapter 5. It is the title and not the content that I use here.
11. I put "natural" in quotation marks here because, on Rawls's approach, natural duties are not naturally "given" (as, say, Locke's natural rights are given) but are rather the outcome of a hypothetical fair decision situation. The contrast with "non-natural" is nevertheless appropriate for our present purpose. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972), 111-115.
12. Letter from James Rich, Bolton School Boys' Division, The Times (London), Public Agenda section, May 18, 2004.
13. This benchmark statement may be accessed at http://www.qaa.ac.uk/ crntwork/benchmark/honours.htm (last accessed September 17, 2004) and is © The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education 2000. Quotations that follow are from this document. It was produced by the History subject benchmarking group, whose members were: Dr. M. Arnot; Professor D. Bates (Glasgow); Professor C. Clark (Warwick); Professor M. Daunton (Churchill College, Cambridge); Professor H. Dickinson (Edinburgh); Dr. Susan Doran (St. Mary's College, Twickenham); Professor W. Doyle (Bristol); Professor D. Eastwood (Swansea); Professor E. Evans (Lancaster); Professor A. Fletcher (Chair); Professor A. Jones (Aberystwyth); Mr. R. Lloyd-Jones (Sheffield Hallam); Dr. E. McFarland (Glasgow Caledonian); Professor A. Porter (King's College London); Professor P. Stafford (Huddersfield); Professor J. Tosh (North London).
14. Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost (London: Vintage, 1998), 561.
15. Oscar Handlin, Truth in History (Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press, 1979), 405.
16. Jane O'Grady, Obituary of Sir Stuart Hampshire, The Guardian (June 16, 2004).
17. See J. L. Gorman, "Objectivity and Truth in History," in History and Theory: Contemporary Readings, ed. Brian Fay, Philip Pomper, and Richard T. Vann (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998), 320-341.
18. Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost, 561, my stress on "all who read."
19. J. H. Plumb, The Death of the Past (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1973), 16, 15.
20. Tristram Hunt, "Professor Plumb and the Victory of Reason," referring to Niall Ferguson's introduction to a reissue of Plumb's The Death of the Past, The Times (London), Review ideas section, January 17 2004.
21. Accessed June 1, 2004 from: http://www.esf.org/esf-article.php?section= 2&domain=4&activity=1& language=0&article=363
22. Quoted by the First Draft Strategy (June 2003) from the Preamble of the Constitution of UNESCO of 1945.
23. Evans, "History, Memory, and the Law," 344.
24. quoting Lawrence Douglas, The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001), 215.
25. "Abstract" introducing Robert A. Rosenstone, "Confessions of a Postmodern (?) Historian," Rethinking History 8 (2004), 149.
26. Rawls, A Theory of Justice, 136.
27. Veronica Wedgwood, "Strafford," in The Collected Essays of C. V. Wedgwood (London: Fontana, 1987), 117.
28. Veronica Wedgwood, "Miss Mangnall of the Questions," in Collected Essays, 93.
29. "I feel less angry about the [Maryland, 2002] snipers than I did a year ago, much less upset about O. J. Simpson than I did ten years ago. And I feel positively benign about Bluebeard the Pirate." F. H. Buckley, "Are Emotions Moral?," The New Criterion (January 22, 2004), http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/22/jan04/emotion.htm (accessed September 17, 2004).
30. Neal Ascherson commenting on Richard J. Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich (New York and London: Penguin/Allen Lane 2003)
31. in "Still Spellbound by the Nazis," The Observer Review (November 30, 2003), 15.