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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Page 155
... social development , conditioned by the same sort of factors as social life in general , of which Hobbes's doctrine which Montesquieu rejects , that justice is whatever the laws ordain and nothing else , is merely an extreme , and ...
... social development , conditioned by the same sort of factors as social life in general , of which Hobbes's doctrine which Montesquieu rejects , that justice is whatever the laws ordain and nothing else , is merely an extreme , and ...
Page 221
... social justice . The fact that the belief in equality , solidarity and justice had always represented , at any rate , the professed aspirations of men , proves that these qualities flow from man's true nature . Rational and harmonious ...
... social justice . The fact that the belief in equality , solidarity and justice had always represented , at any rate , the professed aspirations of men , proves that these qualities flow from man's true nature . Rational and harmonious ...
Page 308
... social cement more effective , he believes , than even language . All creation is in essence artistic , and the factory should become the vehicle of the social poetry of modern producers . Human history is more than the impersonal story ...
... social cement more effective , he believes , than even language . All creation is in essence artistic , and the factory should become the vehicle of the social poetry of modern producers . Human history is more than the impersonal story ...
Contents
Authors Note page | vii |
The CounterEnlightenment | xxv |
The Originality of Machiavelli | 25 |
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