
Two Enemies of the Enlightenment: 3 – Joseph de Maistre
Isaiah Berlin
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The Last of the Romans
Mester is not a proud, indomitable aristocrat standing on the frontiers of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. He pretends that he derives his propositions from all kinds of forms of scholastic logic or the doctrines of the roman church. This i believe to be a false account. The master is far more a harbinger a loss of the future than he seems. In any sense, mester seems to me to be in any sense, a reconstruct of the past. His writings are full of hysterical view of man as possessed by irrational instincts which can only be exploited if one looks them in the face. A contempt for liberals and democrats who think human beings are totally to
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