
The Origins of Cultural History: 1 – Two Notions of the History of Culture: The German versus the French Tradition
Isaiah Berlin
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We Demand Tolerance, and We Demand Plausibility
There are fields of what might be called descriptive knowledge, such as science. But bendero fiells, tic, religious, moral, to some extent, political i what is nowadays called ideology in a general way. What we normanly mean by ideological where the demand is not, except on the part of fanatical followers of parties, for demonstrable truth. We don't like schoolmasters who teach our boys and girls tha twice two, sometimes make four and sometimes seven ad a half. In these other more positive fields,. i don't know, exceptth acceptability, plausibility. I speak of idolatries as being profound or shallow. We speak of them
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