He compared the best despotism to the "temple of Sarastro," and his anthology The Proper Study of Mankind features his revival of interest in Vico, Hamann, and Herder.
This thinker once asked why Hamlet couldn't have been written in the court of Genghis Khan. He compared the best despotism to the "temple of Sarastro," and his anthology The Proper Study of Mankind features his revival of interest in Vico, Hamann, and Herder. This man's belief in the "incommensurability" of values led him to value pluralism. This advisor of Charles Taylor's doctorate at Oxford coined the term "Counter-Enlightenment." He separated the idea of self-mastery out from the absence of coercion or interference, and claimed that Tolstoy knew one big thing and many little things, in styles personified by two animals. For 10 points, name this political theorist who wrote "Two Concepts of Liberty" and penned "The Hedgehog and the Fox."
This thinker once asked why Hamlet couldn't have been written in the court of Genghis Khan.
Sir Isaiah Berlin