
Two Enemies of the Enlightenment: 3 – Joseph de Maistre
Isaiah Berlin
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Is There Much Logic in Mester?
Mastorn is regarded by most french writers on him as a marvellous of logical mind, capable of deducing all kinds of extremely paradoxical and disagreeable propositions. This seems to me totally false. There is not much logic in mester. All there is ad is a vivacious nation and an extreme desire to show up and expose the enemy. The enemy is voltaire,. rousseau wen., helvitius, condiarc and condorse. Whenever he comes across their writings, he writes with a kind of dramatic violence and a kind of passion which really does, in a way, arm him ith whthe army sight wit, a kind of special
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