
Capturing Genius: Editing Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin
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I've the Good Fortune to Speak to Quenton Skinner
i had a very different experience in my interaction with quenton skinner. He was somebody who was consistently interested in examining the past. And so he was motivated to not only think about the contemporary relevance of of thinkers throughout the ages, but also investigate individuals for whom they hadn't been given their due ideas. But i wanted to ask a very concrete question: What did he think something like the united nations declaration of human rights? Would he say, ah, imean, you talk a little bit about the maslavian hierarchy, and for example, there are some basic needs of food and shelter and so forth and so on)? I don't recall him speaking about that in particular,
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