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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... faith , the direct capacity which all men have for unquestioning acceptance of data and not ficta.1 Faith is analogous to sight or taste - the physical senses offer me my immediate experience of the physical world , while faith - Glaube ...
... faith , the direct capacity which all men have for unquestioning acceptance of data and not ficta.1 Faith is analogous to sight or taste - the physical senses offer me my immediate experience of the physical world , while faith - Glaube ...
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... faith in their senses ' ; 2 and he tells Kant : ' to eat an egg , to drink a glass of water , the Attic philo- sopher Hume needs faith ... If he needs faith to eat and drink , why does he belie his own principle when judging of things ...
... faith in their senses ' ; 2 and he tells Kant : ' to eat an egg , to drink a glass of water , the Attic philo- sopher Hume needs faith ... If he needs faith to eat and drink , why does he belie his own principle when judging of things ...
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... faith , as the world's greatest writer of his country's history and of the " natural church " has maintained ? " The blind ' faith ' is ' the faith that is not the work of reason and not open to attacks by reason , since faith no more ...
... faith , as the world's greatest writer of his country's history and of the " natural church " has maintained ? " The blind ' faith ' is ' the faith that is not the work of reason and not open to attacks by reason , since faith no more ...
Contents
Authors Note page | vii |
The CounterEnlightenment | xxv |
The Originality of Machiavelli | 25 |
Copyright | |
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