EPOCH IN ECHO* : WISDOM PRECIS

 

SLAVERY was entirely acceptable in the distant past, so can one judge an ancient slave-owner of being a monster?

Can one call those who died during the bubonic plague in the medieval times fools for believing that it was caused by rats that materialised out of thin air in garbage dumps?

It would be presentism's arrogance to call them that. But this arrogance forgets that, in its own time, thousands of smarter, much more educated men and women refused to get a simple shot of the Covid-19 vaccine because they believed it contained nano-computer chips.

Every epoch of history needs to be studied in the political, cultural, social and economic context  that it existed in.

The World Students Society thanks Nadeem F. Paracha.