Give me amoralism every time.
We had an interesting, if too brief, discussion in the capstone course about why historical context is important. As one student put it, "if you take anything out of its context, you aren't gonna understand it right." True, so true.
The question was presented in a chapter, from a book useful for getting such discussions started, in such a way as if there is ever any historical utility in making moral judgment about a historical context. To make a moral judgment indicates to me that the historian is not well enough aware of his/her own context. Amoralism is the more logical approach than moral relativism because moral relativism is simply another moral judgment.
