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Berlin on Joseph de Maistre and Fascism

March 4, 2019

In this video, I discuss Berlin’s views of the Counter-Enlightenment thinker Joseph de Maistre, who in Berlin’s view anticipated much of modern fascism. … More Berlin on Joseph de Maistre and Fascism

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Isaiah Berlin on Vico

February 25, 2019

In this video, I discuss Berlin’s reaction to some key ideas of Giambattista Vico, who anticipated much of the criticism of later counter-Enlightenment and Romantic thinkers and was deeply influential on Berlin’s own thought … More Isaiah Berlin on Vico

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Isaiah Berlin: An Introduction

February 11, 2019

“In the end, men choose between ultimate values; they choose as they do, because their life and thought are determined by fundamental moral categories and concepts that are, at any rate over large stretches of time and, space, a part of their being and thought and sense of their own identity; part of what makes them human.”
-Two Concepts of Liberty
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