Some Sources of Romanticism: 3 – The True Fathers of Romanticism
Isaiah Berlin
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Socrates Is Not the Timeless Sage of the French Enlightenment, Timeless, Rationally Sage
Socrates is not the timeless sage of the french enlightenment, timeless, rationally sage. Nor is he simply the ironical deflate of pompos noas, which is what haman conceived him to be. Socrates is the fifth century athenian who lived in fifth century athens. In order t understand greek art, you must understand greek history. You must see the plants which they saw. You must understand the soil on which they lived and saw on and saw. And this therefore becomes the beginning of te whole notion of historicism, evolutionism - that you can only understand other human beings in terms of an environment very dissimilar to your own.
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