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Why History Is A Subjective Discipline

While history aims to be objective, it is ultimately a subjective discipline influenced by historians' biases. However, carefully examining multiple perspectives and sources allows historians to minimize bias. Studying history is still worthwhile as it develops skills like critical thinking and differentiating facts from theories. Both written sources like diaries and non-written sources like art provide insights but must be critically analyzed since they can reflect biases.

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Why History Is A Subjective Discipline

While history aims to be objective, it is ultimately a subjective discipline influenced by historians' biases. However, carefully examining multiple perspectives and sources allows historians to minimize bias. Studying history is still worthwhile as it develops skills like critical thinking and differentiating facts from theories. Both written sources like diaries and non-written sources like art provide insights but must be critically analyzed since they can reflect biases.

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Is history an objective discipline? If it is not, is it still worthwhile to study history?

There is no one answer to this question, as there are a variety of reasons why
people may think that history is not an objective discipline. One argument against the objectivity
of history is that historians are human and may be influenced by their biases, while historians
also may disagree over interpretations of historical evidence.
However, by carefully examining the sources and taking multiple perspectives of past
events in history into account. Whether history is objective or subjective may depend on the
historian’s approach to the subject.
While there is no clear answer, history would most likely be a subjective discipline. You
can say that it may be the same as how we interpret music or paintings, our interpretations may
differ from one another and most likely we also take what emotions we felt while examining the
music or painting into account.
While it’s true that a subjective historian is in fact more vulnerable to biased conclusions,
as their personal opinions may influence their research. We believe that a part of a historian’s job
is to not give in to those biases.
With these facts into account, history should be an objective discipline rather than a
subjective one.

To answer the next question, history is still worthwhile to study, as it helps students to
develop valuable skills such as critical thinking and the ability to analyze such sources and
extract valuable data from it.
Studying history challenges students to know and determine what is indeed a fact and
differentiate it from theory— without getting biased of course.

Provide an example of written and non-written sources of history and conduct external and
internal criticism of sources

Written and non-written sources of history are important for studying history. Studying
both sources can give us important insights into a particular time period.
Written sources such as;
 Diaries
 Letters
 Books
 Journals— or any written documents may tell us what society was like in that particular
point in time.
For example, a diary of a girl that writes about her daily routine may tell us what was life
back then. How she dressed, what she eats for food, these trivial stuff may be encompassed with
historical information.

Similarly, non-written sources such as;


 Paintings
 Composed Music
 Artifacts
 Ancient remains – allow us to learn more about the past.
Music would often be said as a reflection of history. What type of music do you think of
when you imagine yourself in Ancient Rome? The medieval age? Ancient China? Ancient India?
Music is often correlated to different time periods in different places. Each culture would
have different musical instruments in certain periods of time. These musical instruments may be
used by important people and we can have a sense of how the social hierarchy functions back
then.
While it’s true both sources are important, it should not be forgotten to note that these
sources would be sometimes be done by humans. Biased sources yield biased history.
Brian Renzo J. Anzures

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