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The Origins of Cultural History: 3 – The Origins of the Conflict: Political Lawyers, Classical Scholars, Narrative Historians

Isaiah Berlin

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What Did the Roman Lawyers Really Mean?

The very process of the faithful reconstruction of any form of human communication requires a certain correct understanding of meaning of what is said. And this entails some knowledge of the character and intentions of the people whose language is being studied, especially social structure within which these communications take place. But now, how was it done? It was done. That's what bala meant by trying to get rid of the theologians and the metaphysicians. You want to now about the milio and the period and the conventions which governed both the words and the lives and the actual practices.

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