Anachronistically judging the past

One of the basic rules of historical scholarship is to avoid “anachronistic judgments.” In simple terms, this means the following: the people who lived in the past, lived different lives with different values and different obligations then do we in the present. -- Jan 16, 2014First gs. for { anachronistically judging the past }, 17. jan, 2023. Judging the Past – Active History | activehistory.ca
* In literary and historical analysis, presentism is a pejorative term for the introduction of present-day ideas and perspectives into depictions or interpretations of the past. Some modern historians seek to avoid presentism in their work because they consider it a form of cultural bias, and believe it creates a distorted understanding of their subject matter. The practice of presentism is regarded by some as a common fallacy when writing about the past.Presentism (literary and historical analysis) - Wikipedia
----Anachronism; Bias