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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... divine reason , and he speaks about providence , by which everything is ultimately shaped in its own unfathomable way . But divine reason for him is unlike anything appealed to by deists in the eighteenth century — reason implanted by ...
... divine reason , and he speaks about providence , by which everything is ultimately shaped in its own unfathomable way . But divine reason for him is unlike anything appealed to by deists in the eighteenth century — reason implanted by ...
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... divine power . Above all they do not look for general theories which will explain everything . For nothing is more fatal to true wisdom than scientifically established general principles . Maistre held very penetrating and remarkably ...
... divine power . Above all they do not look for general theories which will explain everything . For nothing is more fatal to true wisdom than scientifically established general principles . Maistre held very penetrating and remarkably ...
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... divine origin.1 The rights of the sovereigns themselves have no date , for they are eternal . Sovereignty must be indivisible , for if it is distributed there is no centre of authority , and all things fall to pieces . Earthly ...
... divine origin.1 The rights of the sovereigns themselves have no date , for they are eternal . Sovereignty must be indivisible , for if it is distributed there is no centre of authority , and all things fall to pieces . Earthly ...
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 |
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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