
The Origins of Cultural History: 2 – Geisteswissenschaft and the Natural Sciences: Vico versus Descartes
Isaiah Berlin
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The Central Doctrine of the Enlightenment
Mortescue delights in trying to convey the individual quality of greeks, phoenicians, persians, dorgians and aztec indians. He takes a delight in trying to express the individuality of each of these cultures without comparing them. Simply congratulates them for being what they are,. And believes quite sincerely that in this great garden of flowers, there is absolutly no need for conflict between any of them. This is a proposition which, if herder is right, is a logical incoherence, cannot be true.
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