Some Sources of Romanticism: 5 – Unbridled Romanticism
Isaiah Berlin
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The Self and the Not Self
In the resistance emerged the self and the not self without the not self. This was, so to speak, a primary datum, more radical than anything which later supervened on it. And this, of course, can have its political implications. Let me read you a passage from ficht's famous speeches to the german nation,. delivered napoleon and had conquered prussia. He says, either you believe in an original principle in man, a freedom, perfectfectibility, an infinite progress of our species, or you believe in none of this. These are part of primal humanity. These constitute the urfalk, the primal people. I mean the germans.
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