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 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 principles , are many . But not infinitely many : they must be within the human horizon . " 27 In the light of this common horizon , certain ultimate and non - relativist standards of evaluation were recognised as common by all ...
... moral principles , are many . But not infinitely many : they must be within the human horizon . " 27 In the light of this common horizon , certain ultimate and non - relativist standards of evaluation were recognised as common by all ...
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... moral pluralism . Then there has been the fragmentation within Western values themselves . The re - emergence of moral disagreement within liberal polities as previously suppressed or non - enfranchised groups ( women , children ...
... moral pluralism . Then there has been the fragmentation within Western values themselves . The re - emergence of moral disagreement within liberal polities as previously suppressed or non - enfranchised groups ( women , children ...
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