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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Page 83
... seemed to promise that philosophy could be something more than misty conversation : it could generate results , it could make progress . Logical positivism , in Stuart Hampshire's words , seemed to leave behind the ' amateurishness ...
... seemed to promise that philosophy could be something more than misty conversation : it could generate results , it could make progress . Logical positivism , in Stuart Hampshire's words , seemed to leave behind the ' amateurishness ...
Page 85
... seemed Martian . They debated , for example , whether one could tell if one person's headache was worse than another person's . If everything we know about the world comes to us through our senses , how do we know anything about the ...
... seemed Martian . They debated , for example , whether one could tell if one person's headache was worse than another person's . If everything we know about the world comes to us through our senses , how do we know anything about the ...
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... seemed deaf to irony , while the best seemed beset with guilt . He thought their guilt about the uselessness of art and scholarship was just another form of philistinism . The contrast between the tormented moral language of the Russian ...
... seemed deaf to irony , while the best seemed beset with guilt . He thought their guilt about the uselessness of art and scholarship was just another form of philistinism . The contrast between the tormented moral language of the Russian ...
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