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MAKING SENSE OF THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2022

Nicholas Smith
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Abstract

This article explores arguments from ‘the right side of history’. These arguments are often interpreted as making an appeal to a trajectory which independently guides history. These arguments are often criticized on the grounds that history simply doesn't work that way. I offer an interpretation of right side of history arguments that does not rely on this sort of historical trajectory, and argue that even this version of the argument fails.

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Think , Volume 21 , Issue 62 , Autumn 2022 , pp. 103 - 115
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Royal Institute of Philosophy

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