
Two Enemies of the Enlightenment: 3 – Joseph de Maistre
Isaiah Berlin
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The French Revolution and Its Importance
Socialists and communists maintained that twas tremendous blindness on the part of the makers of the french revolution to the social and economic structure of society. The Catholic catholic church maintained, and master maintained with it, that the true cause of the failure of the French revolution was the rupture from the word of god heresy. He has is determined to take to pieces the main theses of the enlightenment, in particular, as preached by the french encyclopaedists, and to show their shallowness and insubstantiality. For rousseau and for other thinkers, nature is fundamentally a kind of simle harmony, which man departs from. And the task then is to restore the broken
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