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 58
... philosophy of history , and Collingwood stood alone among Oxford philosophers in his insistently historical approach to philosophical problems . If there was any single source in Oxford for Berlin's later interest in the philosophy of ...
... philosophy of history , and Collingwood stood alone among Oxford philosophers in his insistently historical approach to philosophical problems . If there was any single source in Oxford for Berlin's later interest in the philosophy of ...
Page 83
... philosophy using the dynamite provided by the Vienna School . Philosophy should be the analysis of either empirical or logical statements : if a proposition was neither , it was nonsensical . As for the content of ethics or moral philosophy ...
... philosophy using the dynamite provided by the Vienna School . Philosophy should be the analysis of either empirical or logical statements : if a proposition was neither , it was nonsensical . As for the content of ethics or moral philosophy ...
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... philosophical discussion and directed him - not away from philosophy - but towards a philosophy grounded in the history of ideas . The Marx biography , begun as a dutiful exercise without much sense of where it might lead , gradually ...
... philosophical discussion and directed him - not away from philosophy - but towards a philosophy grounded in the history of ideas . The Marx biography , begun as a dutiful exercise without much sense of where it might lead , gradually ...
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