Against the Current: Essays in the History of IdeasIn this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance in the history of thought of dissenters whose ideas still challenge conventional wisdom--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, Berlin brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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... method or combination of methods : and that what cannot be answered by it , cannot be answered at all . The implication of this position is that the world is a single system which can be described and explained by the use of rational ...
... method or combination of methods : and that what cannot be answered by it , cannot be answered at all . The implication of this position is that the world is a single system which can be described and explained by the use of rational ...
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... methods recommended by , say , Auguste Comte or Herbert Spencer a century later ) and applied to the particular cases that are of interest to the political scientist or the prac- tical legislator or administrator ? For all that ...
... methods recommended by , say , Auguste Comte or Herbert Spencer a century later ) and applied to the particular cases that are of interest to the political scientist or the prac- tical legislator or administrator ? For all that ...
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... methods of the natural sciences constituted the most successful application . The most powerful instrument in the acquisition of knowledge was held to be mathematics . Whether this was due to the fact that the basic structure of reality ...
... methods of the natural sciences constituted the most successful application . The most powerful instrument in the acquisition of knowledge was held to be mathematics . Whether this was due to the fact that the basic structure of reality ...
Contents
Authors Note page | vii |
The CounterEnlightenment I | 1 |
The Originality of Machiavelli | 25 |
Copyright | |
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