Alternative Accounts of Lives: An Argument for Epistemological Relativism

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How are we to interpret the fact that so many different biographical accounts can and have been given of individual lives? This article examines the history of biographies of Jesus, Shakespeare, and Lincoln in order to identify the conditions and processes leading to such diversity, and to argue that this diversity is not necessarily a sign of inadequate scholarship, but may reflect different yet supplementary perspectives on the same central figure.

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