Uma história para o nosso tempo: historiografia como fato moral

Abstract

The article wants to characterize historiography as a moral fact and puts in question the relationship between ethics and historical knowledge. It shows a general framework of different tendencies of the history of the historical writing to demonstrate the moral diversity of the construction of the historical knowledge. This diversity stresses the historicity of the construction of the historical knowledge, and, defines historiography as a social practice. Finally, the paper purports that the ethic questioning is part of the epistemological issue of history as a discipline. Key words: historiography, theory of history, ethics, moral, epistemology.