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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... moral tone and the comforting implication that goodness might be as clear , distinct and intuitively apprehensible as primary colours . He must also have been impressed by the way in which intellectual scepticism could go hand - in ...
... moral tone and the comforting implication that goodness might be as clear , distinct and intuitively apprehensible as primary colours . He must also have been impressed by the way in which intellectual scepticism could go hand - in ...
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... moral choice . Such an assumption informed every feature of human language : it was not reasonable to suppose that such a pervasive and constitutive feature of discourse proceeded from an illusion that science was bound , one day , to ...
... moral choice . Such an assumption informed every feature of human language : it was not reasonable to suppose that such a pervasive and constitutive feature of discourse proceeded from an illusion that science was bound , one day , to ...
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... moral conceit.27 No moral judgement whatsoever was possible from conditions of safety on the behaviour of human beings in conditions of danger . Even active collaboration could not be condemned outright.28 This distaste for the ...
... moral conceit.27 No moral judgement whatsoever was possible from conditions of safety on the behaviour of human beings in conditions of danger . Even active collaboration could not be condemned outright.28 This distaste for the ...
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