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The Origins of Cultural History: 2 – Geisteswissenschaft and the Natural Sciences: Vico versus Descartes

Isaiah Berlin

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Everything Is Full of a Bearded Thunderer

Nico asks what must ancient experience be like for this kind of phrase to have meant something to them. He says it's extremely difficult, it almost impossible, to enter into the vast imaginations of those crude and primitive peoples. But with a sufficiently appalling effort, it is perhaps possible to make out what the world must have been in which this kind of thing was said. And then, of coursee, sets off.

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