
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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The Technique of the Natural Sciences
The natural sciences have, after all, cleansed the stables of metaphysics and theology. And there was no reason for supposing that in the same technique could not be applied to moral or aesthetic questions as well. Everything in nature ultimately belongs to a single, unified, systematic whole. The only difficulty is to discover what this particular whole is. To do this, you apply rational methods, which will presumed to supply you with a correct answer to your question.
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