"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made." - Immanuel Kant. Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century - an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered values of individual liberty and moral and political pluralism. In the "Crooked Timber of Humanity", he exposes the links between the ideas of the past and the social and political cataclysms of our present century: between the Platonic belief in absolute Truth and the lure of authoritarianism; between the eighteenth-century reactionary ideologue Joseph de Maistre and twentieth-century fascism; between the romanticism of Schiller and Byron and the militant - and sometimes genocidal - nationalism that convulses the modern world.
Isaiah Berlin was, until his death in 1997, a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was renowned as an essayist and as the author of many books, among them "Karl Marx, Four Essays on Liberty, Russian Thinkers, The Sense of Reality, The Proper Study of Mankind," and from Princeton, "Concepts and Categories, Personal Impressions, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, The Roots of Romanticism, The Power of Ideas," and "Three Critics of the Enlightenment".
Henry Hardy, a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, is one of Isaiah Berlin's literary trustees. He has edited several other volumes by Berlin, and is currently preparing Berlin's letters and remaining unpublished writings for publication.
PS:很久以前写的,在看《扭曲的人性之材》的时候写的,现在想把它放到空间里,和有兴趣的盆友一起讨论。 乌托邦:一个处于纯粹和谐状态的世界,那里所有的成员都和平相处,彼此相爱,免于皮肉之苦,远离任何欲望,也不用担心受怕,没有低贱的劳作,没有妒忌和失落,不会受到不...
评分“怎么能够让所有人都接受这样一种苍白,幽暗,死气沉沉的状态,缺乏色彩,了无生气,没有艺术,也不够人性。对那些秉持歌德这种带有浪漫主义色彩的个人主义而言,重要的不是共同基础,而是差异......” “理想自身呈现出一种绝对律令(a categorical imperative)的形式:要遵...
评分摘自《法制日报》 作者:李海默 肖澜 康德说:“人性这根曲木,绝然造不出任何笔直的东西”……历史与现实共有的那一巨大的吊诡阴影:由于人性的曲木性质, 我们不能依照一个标准范式的蓝图来塑造人类社会,哪怕蓝图宣称已调和了各种的善的多元性,并因而具有能够改造...
评分某种意义上说,《扭曲的人性之材》可以看作是《反潮流》的姊妹篇。众所周知,伯林对多元主义价值观的强调,贯穿到了他的一系列著作之中,因此很难提炼和归纳出他思想中的统一主题。但在观念史研究这个大前提下,《扭曲的人性之材》和《反潮流》还具有了某些同一性和关涉性。比...
评分“怎么能够让所有人都接受这样一种苍白,幽暗,死气沉沉的状态,缺乏色彩,了无生气,没有艺术,也不够人性。对那些秉持歌德这种带有浪漫主义色彩的个人主义而言,重要的不是共同基础,而是差异......” “理想自身呈现出一种绝对律令(a categorical imperative)的形式:要遵...
The Pursuit of the Ideal
评分The Pursuit of the Ideal
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