Isaiah Berlin: A LifeIsaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for 10 years, before's Berlin's death in November 1997, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interview him about his past, his ideas, his most intimate memories, and his inner conflicts. |
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... human values could be derived from facts about human nature . They believed that all men wanted the same things and that these things were not in conflict . The entire Western agenda of ameliorative reform derived from this optimistic ...
... human values could be derived from facts about human nature . They believed that all men wanted the same things and that these things were not in conflict . The entire Western agenda of ameliorative reform derived from this optimistic ...
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... human nature . This vocabulary assumed that human beings were unique , among other species , in their capacity for moral choice . Such an assumption informed every feature of human language : it was not reasonable to suppose that such a ...
... human nature . This vocabulary assumed that human beings were unique , among other species , in their capacity for moral choice . Such an assumption informed every feature of human language : it was not reasonable to suppose that such a ...
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... human nature . Since human nature was not always one and the same , the truth would not always appear the same to each human group . Each culture had its own centre of gravity - what Herder called its Schwerpunkt . It was unintelligible ...
... human nature . Since human nature was not always one and the same , the truth would not always appear the same to each human group . Each culture had its own centre of gravity - what Herder called its Schwerpunkt . It was unintelligible ...
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