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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... seemed to share the popular excitement , though Mendel and Marie were not the kind of people to throw on a coat , rush downstairs and join the crowd . When it seemed safe to go out in the streets , Isaiah and his governess went for a ...
... seemed to share the popular excitement , though Mendel and Marie were not the kind of people to throw on a coat , rush downstairs and join the crowd . When it seemed safe to go out in the streets , Isaiah and his governess went for a ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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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