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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 Three Fundamental Questions of the History of the Human Being

Inliberal societies at least it is proper not to persecute differences of view in these particular fields. The three fundamental questions to which he addressed himself, and which identity i can develop in this lecture, wo hope to do in lexan are theseno. First was his belief that man was one and not compamentalized; therefore, anything af the human being did, he did the whole of his character and nature. Since human beings are in fact single natures, the divirsion of human beings into specialization, or example, division of labour, every time that a man says, speaking as a father, i say this, but speaking as a citizen, i say that.

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