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It is sometimes thought that the renowned essayist Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was incapable of writing a big book. But in fact he developed some of his most important essays--including "Two Concepts of Liberty" and "Historical Inevitability"--from a book-length manuscript that he intended to... read more
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THE CENTRAL ISSUE of political philosophy is the question 'Why should any man obey any other man or body of men?' - or (what amounts to the same in the final analysis) 'Why should any man or body of men ever interfere with other men?'
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- Henry Hardy (Author)
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