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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... Christian virtue ( which may , indeed , be the inescapable lot of sinful men on earth ) that makes it , for him , impracticable to establish , even to seek after , the good Chris- tian state . It is the very opposite : Machiavelli is ...
... Christian virtue ( which may , indeed , be the inescapable lot of sinful men on earth ) that makes it , for him , impracticable to establish , even to seek after , the good Chris- tian state . It is the very opposite : Machiavelli is ...
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... Christian life is to condemn oneself to political impotence : to being used and crushed by powerful , ambitious , clever , unscrupulous men ; if one wishes to build a glorious community like those of Athens or Rome at their best , then ...
... Christian life is to condemn oneself to political impotence : to being used and crushed by powerful , ambitious , clever , unscrupulous men ; if one wishes to build a glorious community like those of Athens or Rome at their best , then ...
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... Christian education . He does not seek to correct the Christian conception of a good man . He does not say that saints are not saints , or that honourable behaviour is not honourable or to be admired ; only that this type of goodness ...
... Christian education . He does not seek to correct the Christian conception of a good man . He does not say that saints are not saints , or that honourable behaviour is not honourable or to be admired ; only that this type of goodness ...
Contents
Authors Note page | vii |
The CounterEnlightenment | xxv |
The Originality of Machiavelli | 25 |
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