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Some Sources of Romanticism: 2 – The First Attack on Enlightenment

Isaiah Berlin

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The Answer to All Serious Questions Is Knowable

If the answer is not knowable at all, then there must be something wrong with the question. This is a proposition which is common both to christian and toa scholastic. The third proposition is that all the answers must be compatible with one another. And it is this that romanticism, in a certain sense, cracked. That is the general presupposition of the rationalist western tradition whether christian or pagan,. Whether theist or atheist. It is clear that the true answer to one question cannot be incompatible with thetrue answer to another questions. One true proposition cannot contradict another. If all true propositions are, in principle, discoverable, then it must follow that there is

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