Critical re-examination of history requires both developed critical faculty and freedom

Evidence

Similar re-examinations of past assumptions and past heroes are in progress in many other countries. But not in all. Such a re-examination presupposes both the development of a critical faculty and the freedom to exercise it. For better or worse—and I am convinced that it is for better—Turkey is such a country, and Turks must confront the dangers and responsibilities as well as the pleasures and opportunities of freedom. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1751

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the political precondition for historical revisionism.