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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... virtue and vice are in fact virtue and vice . Unlike Hobbes or Spinoza ( or eighteenth - century philosophes or , for that matter , the first Stoics ) , who try to define ( or redefine ) moral notions in such a way as to fit in with the ...
... virtue and vice are in fact virtue and vice . Unlike Hobbes or Spinoza ( or eighteenth - century philosophes or , for that matter , the first Stoics ) , who try to define ( or redefine ) moral notions in such a way as to fit in with the ...
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... virtue , but not in princes . A generous prince will ruin the citizens by taxing them too heavily , a mean prince ( and Machiavelli does not say that meanness is a good quality in private men ) will save the purses of the citizens and ...
... virtue , but not in princes . A generous prince will ruin the citizens by taxing them too heavily , a mean prince ( and Machiavelli does not say that meanness is a good quality in private men ) will save the purses of the citizens and ...
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... virtue , vice and justice , ' said Hegel . If for ' the march of history ' you substitute ' a well governed patria ' , and interpret Hegel's notion of virtue as it is understood by Christians or ordinary men , then Machiavelli is one of ...
... virtue , vice and justice , ' said Hegel . If for ' the march of history ' you substitute ' a well governed patria ' , and interpret Hegel's notion of virtue as it is understood by Christians or ordinary men , then Machiavelli is one of ...
Contents
Authors Note page | vii |
The CounterEnlightenment I | 1 |
The Originality of Machiavelli | 25 |
Copyright | |
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