The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of IdeasVintage Books, 1992 - 278 Seiten "Sir Isaiah Berlin may be our most important living philosopher, an activist of the intellect who marshals vast erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered values of individual liberty and moral and political pluralism. In The Crooked Timber of Humanity he exposes the links between the idea of the past and the social and political cataclysms of our present century: between the Platonic belief in absolute Truth and the lure of authoritarianism; between the eighteenth-century reactionary ideologue Joseph de Maistre and twentieth-century fascism; between the romanticism of Schiller and Byron and the militant - and sometimes genocidal - nationalism that convulses the modern world"--Unedited summary from book cover. |
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... conflict within one culture or group or in a single human being at different times or , for that matter , at one and the same time - does not entail relativism of values , only the notion of a plurality of values not structured ...
... conflict within one culture or group or in a single human being at different times or , for that matter , at one and the same time - does not entail relativism of values , only the notion of a plurality of values not structured ...
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... conflict between my nation and other men , I am obliged to fight for my nation no matter at what cost to other men ; and if the others resist , that is no more than one would expect from beings brought up in an inferior culture ...
... conflict between my nation and other men , I am obliged to fight for my nation no matter at what cost to other men ; and if the others resist , that is no more than one would expect from beings brought up in an inferior culture ...
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... conflict and tragedy are not intrinsic to human life . Tragedy - as opposed to mere disaster - consists in the conflicts of human actions , or characters , or values . If , in principle , all questions are answerable , and all answers ...
... conflict and tragedy are not intrinsic to human life . Tragedy - as opposed to mere disaster - consists in the conflicts of human actions , or characters , or values . If , in principle , all questions are answerable , and all answers ...
Inhalt
The Pursuit of the Ideal | 1 |
The Decline of Utopian Ideas in the West | 20 |
Giambattista Vico and Cultural History | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas Isaiah Berlin Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1990 |
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas Isaiah Berlin Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1990 |
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas Isaiah Berlin Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1991 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ancient authority believed Bonald Christian church civilisation common conception Condorcet conflict consciousness created creative CROOKED TIMBER culture divine doctrine eighteenth century ends Enlightenment equally eternal existence fact faith Fascism feeling Fichte forces France freedom French Friedrich Schlegel German Giambattista Vico goals happiness harmonious Hegel human ideal ideas ignorance imagination incompatible individual intellectual Isaiah Berlin Johann Gottfried Herder Joseph de Maistre kind knowledge language laws Léon Bloy liberal liberty live Maistre's mankind Marx Marxist methods modern Montesquieu moral movement natural sciences nineteenth century objective organisation outlook perfect perhaps philosophers Plato political principle progress questions rationalist realise reason recognised relativism resistance revolution romantic romanticism Rousseau rules Russian scientific seek seems sense social society spirit St Petersburg thinkers thought tradition true answers truth ultimate ultramontane understand universal Utopias values Vico and Herder Vico's violent virtues vision Voltaire