Perspective In The 16th Century

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While studying history, and even while living life in the present, considering and understanding perspective is of the utmost importance. Every individual carries with them biases, biases that affect and are affected by the experiences they have. Groups of individuals’ biases collectively join and form ethnocentrism, a seemingly inescapable phenomenon existing in the 16th century as well as the 21st. Perspective has the ability to warp one’s take on the smallest of issues; however, instead of rejecting a culture that through one’s perspective seems foreign, odd, wrong, one can utilise it to find some greater truth about their own culture.
Michel de Montaigne, armed with his philosophy of skepticism, obtained a level of objectivity that most

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