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The Origins of Cultural History: 3 – The Origins of the Conflict: Political Lawyers, Classical Scholars, Narrative Historians

Isaiah Berlin

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Where Does the Idea of Differences of Culture Come From?

Anacronism is the notion that certain phenomena are attributable to certain kinds of manifestation of an spirit only. It's not merely false, thits obviousa statement which is in some waymad, irrational andinerigable. The idea was of a kind of unidirectional flow with the idea that there are these incommensurable cultures which are each self - although part of a general movement. Theyre not totally insulated, and can be conceived of as being part of a single history of mankind. But each has enough character of its own make it possible to attribute things so as to cosay,. This is typically fourteenth century. And i think anybody at any rate could do

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