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

Isaiah Berlin

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The History of the Ancient Greeks

Ancient greece was agitated beyond any spot on earth by domestic contention and foreign wars. It is really their bloody wars which kept them in a state of constant competition with each other. And it may be perhaps, that its particularly his rather romantic vision of the past as being filled with barbarian games of a splendid kind. He admired tat to some extent, inspired hertem the artless song of the savage sis ferguson or the heroic legend of the bard. So to staker, i think he must be as one of the few relatively original thinkers in the history of man. After all, r we can't assume that everything which every one says must always be derived from

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