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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... laws should be so adapted to the people for which they are created , that it should be a great coincidence if the laws of one nation suit another ... They ought to be fitted to the physical conditions of a country , to its climate ...
... laws should be so adapted to the people for which they are created , that it should be a great coincidence if the laws of one nation suit another ... They ought to be fitted to the physical conditions of a country , to its climate ...
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... laws . Liberty is ' the right to do what- ever the laws permit ' . But can there not be despotic laws ? Yes , but in a rational society the laws will be founded upon justice . Justice is not definable as that which the laws happen to ...
... laws . Liberty is ' the right to do what- ever the laws permit ' . But can there not be despotic laws ? Yes , but in a rational society the laws will be founded upon justice . Justice is not definable as that which the laws happen to ...
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... laws ordain and nothing else , is merely an extreme , and indeed somewhat outré , version . There may , indeed , not exist a strictly logical contradiction between believing laws to be a function of social evolution , and belief in ...
... laws ordain and nothing else , is merely an extreme , and indeed somewhat outré , version . There may , indeed , not exist a strictly logical contradiction between believing laws to be a function of social evolution , and belief in ...
Contents
Authors Note page | vii |
The CounterEnlightenment I | 1 |
The Originality of Machiavelli | 25 |
Copyright | |
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