
Some Sources of Romanticism: 2 – The First Attack on Enlightenment
Isaiah Berlin
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The Answers Are Not to Be Obtained in Traditional Ways
The notion of life and nature is that of a jigsaw puzzle. There must be some means of putting these bits together. The all wise man, the omniscient being, god, or an omniscient an earthly creature, whichever way you like to conceive it, is capable of fitting all the various bits together into one coherent pattern. Anyone who fits things into one incoherent pattern will know what the world is like. All questions, whether of a factual nature or what we call a normative nature, that is to say, answers to questions, what should i do?
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