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 xxviii
... individual , to a more ancient tradition , that of the Greek polis or of republican Rome - an essentially collective or communal morality according to which to be a human being and to have values and purposes is identical with being a ...
... individual , to a more ancient tradition , that of the Greek polis or of republican Rome - an essentially collective or communal morality according to which to be a human being and to have values and purposes is identical with being a ...
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... individual is a fallacy : ' a state and a people are governed in a different way from an individual ' ; 1 ' not individual good but com- mon good is what makes cities great'.2 One may disagree with this . One may argue that the ...
... individual is a fallacy : ' a state and a people are governed in a different way from an individual ' ; 1 ' not individual good but com- mon good is what makes cities great'.2 One may disagree with this . One may argue that the ...
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... individual micro- cosm - phylogenesis resembling ontogenesis , an idea which dates back at least to the Renaissance . There is an analogy between the growth of an individual and that of a people . If I can recollect what it was to have ...
... individual micro- cosm - phylogenesis resembling ontogenesis , an idea which dates back at least to the Renaissance . There is an analogy between the growth of an individual and that of a people . If I can recollect what it was to have ...
Contents
Authors Note page | vii |
The CounterEnlightenment I | 1 |
The Originality of Machiavelli | 25 |
Copyright | |
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