Isaiah Berlin

The Origins of Cultural History: 1 – Two Notions of the History of Culture: The German versus the French Tradition

Jul 31, 2013
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 4min
2
What Is Voltaire's Philosophy?
04:17 • 2min
3
The Technique of the Natural Sciences
06:39 • 2min
4
What Is So Great About the Ages?
08:56 • 2min
5
The Misfortune of Mankind
11:09 • 3min
6
Voltaire's Biographies Are Brilliantly Well Written
13:53 • 1min
7
Voltaire's Story of Culture
15:21 • 2min
8
Voltaire's View on the Progress of the Human Mind
17:29 • 2min
9
The Moralists of the Past World
19:38 • 2min
10
Voltaire, the Banker of the Enlightenment
21:37 • 2min
11
The History of Epoches
23:47 • 2min
12
Where Does This Come From?
26:09 • 2min
13
The Sacotomy of Dicotomy
28:31 • 2min
14
The Business of the Artist
30:40 • 2min
15
German History During the Eighteenth Century
32:46 • 3min
16
Ieen Sen Italy, Ad Grunbad.
35:22 • 2min
17
The Reformation of the Germans
37:38 • 2min
18
The Germans and the French
39:41 • 2min
19
The Attitude of the Piety
42:01 • 2min
20
The Beginnings of a New Wave of Propaganda
44:28 • 3min
21
The Key to Understanding Life Is Through Language
47:09 • 2min
22
The German Language of the 17 Sixties - Wit the Greatest Love
49:21 • 3min
23
What You Need Is Not Knowledge Above All, but a Capacity for Understanding
51:53 • 2min
24
We Demand Tolerance, and We Demand Plausibility
53:56 • 2min
25
The Three Fundamental Questions of the History of the Human Being
56:12 • 3min
26
The Second Proposition Which He Believed in Was That Human Activity Is a Form of Communication
59:15 • 5min