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

Isaiah Berlin

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What Is the Objective of a Scientific Life?

There's no scientific her and of its not possible to create a body of knowledge upon which further knowledge can be built. And thut no progress can be made, as these subjects are unscientific. By their nature they are very fundamentally, although they can't refrain from saying so, in so many words, they are nothing but amusement. Are just a collection of old wifes tales, theto though thou dosta agreeable fan like poetry and sofor not serious. This is what or true knowledge advances. If youl look, and this is how science advances. Now, if yo look at these humane studies as theg i things like classical scholarshipor o roman law,

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