
The Impact of Marx on the Nineteenth Century
Isaiah Berlin
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The Theory of Unity of Theory and Practice
The doctrine of the theory of te unity is that whatever i do or don't do, whether i contemplate or act, i am always in a state of activity towards something. Failing to do something, or doing something and failing, is also a kind of doing. That being so it's false to say, with hume and other thinkers, that values can be distinguished from facts. Any kind of conscious activity already involves me in some kind of evaluation. These things are aspects of one activity and not distinguishableom one another for purely technical purposes. To enunciate a theory of history is not simply to say, i am among the many people who simply explain to you how theory moves
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