Isaiah Berlin

The Origins of Cultural History: 2 – Geisteswissenschaft and the Natural Sciences: Vico versus Descartes

Jul 31, 2013
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
Symbolism and the Language of a Nation
02:16 • 4min
3
The Central Doctrine of the Enlightenment
06:37 • 5min
4
Herder's Perpetual Doctrine, Do Not Lean on Others
11:16 • 3min
5
Herde's Ideal for a Human Being
14:21 • 3min
6
What Is the Relationship Between the Germans and the Portuguese?
17:28 • 3min
7
Herda's 'God Is an Artist, Not a Drameter'
20:24 • 4min
8
'It's Very Hard to Draw a Bridge'
24:34 • 3min
9
The History of the Ancient Greeks
27:17 • 2min
10
The Influence of Vico on Herda
29:42 • 3min
11
Cartesianism and the Carteser Attack
32:47 • 2min
12
What Is the Objective of a Scientific Life?
34:44 • 4min
13
The 'Pyranous Attack'
38:45 • 2min
14
The Queen of the Sciences
40:24 • 2min
15
Logic and the Law of Attraction
42:42 • 4min
16
Language, Mythology and Laws
46:58 • 2min
17
The Use of Metaphors in Early Poetry
48:51 • 3min
18
Everything Is Full of a Bearded Thunderer
51:35 • 2min
19
Symbolism - The First Struggle to Reconstruct a Universe Unknown to Us
53:09 • 4min
20
Is There a Transference of Cultures?
57:21 • 2min
21
The Origins of Human Nature
59:45 • 4min
22
Is There a Progress in the Arts?
01:03:55 • 3min