Historyk w obliczu prawdy – szkic refleksyjny
Historian in the face of truth – reflective outline

Summary/Abstract: The article is a historical reflection on the idea of truth in historical research. Nowadays historians find it more and more difficult to be faithful to traditional principles in their work, principles shaped by their academic formation. Instrumental use of historical science, the predominance of a shallow, often distorted information message spread by the mass media, the need to make the historical narrative more attractive by emphasizing sensational threads in it cause a problem with the identity of the historian in the new, global world. An essential part of this identity is spreading the truth. The authors start from invoking the classical definition of truth, present selected opinions of famous historians and scientists about truth in historical research, also looking in them for an answer to the question of what a historian should do to conform to this ideal in his profession.

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