Enlightenment versus Counter-Enlightenment: Isaiah Berlin’s account of the role of the sciences and the humanities

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Autor(a) principal: Silva, Elisabete Mendes
Data de Publicação: 2016
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/16037
Resumo: In this article I intend to describe and analyse Isaiah Berlin’s critical insight regarding the role of both the sciences and humanities nowadays and how the divorce between these two areas of study became clear since the seventeenth century up to the present day. Despite admiring some of the Enlightenment values, Berlin put himself firmly on the side of the Counter-Enlightenment philosophers – Vico, Herder and Hamann –, as he also denied the existence of a priori truths and axiomatic truths leading to the belief in a perfect world. This gulf will be stressed as a means to present Berlin’s theories, that of agonistic liberalism and value-pluralism, always striving for the importance of both the sciences and the humanities.
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spelling Enlightenment versus Counter-Enlightenment: Isaiah Berlin’s account of the role of the sciences and the humanitiesEnlightenmentIsaiah Berlin on the importance of the sciences and the humanitiesCounter-EnlightenmentSciencesHumanitiesIn this article I intend to describe and analyse Isaiah Berlin’s critical insight regarding the role of both the sciences and humanities nowadays and how the divorce between these two areas of study became clear since the seventeenth century up to the present day. Despite admiring some of the Enlightenment values, Berlin put himself firmly on the side of the Counter-Enlightenment philosophers – Vico, Herder and Hamann –, as he also denied the existence of a priori truths and axiomatic truths leading to the belief in a perfect world. This gulf will be stressed as a means to present Berlin’s theories, that of agonistic liberalism and value-pluralism, always striving for the importance of both the sciences and the humanities.Edições CosmosBiblioteca Digital do IPBSilva, Elisabete Mendes2018-02-27T10:22:05Z20162016-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10198/16037engSilva, Elisabete Mendes (2016). Enlightenment versus Counter-Enlightenment: Isaiah Berlin’s account of the role of the sciences and the humanities. Dedalus. ISSN 0871-9519. 20, p. 131-1420871-9519info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-21T10:36:52Zoai:bibliotecadigital.ipb.pt:10198/16037Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T23:05:17.127999Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title Enlightenment versus Counter-Enlightenment: Isaiah Berlin’s account of the role of the sciences and the humanities
spellingShingle Enlightenment versus Counter-Enlightenment: Isaiah Berlin’s account of the role of the sciences and the humanities
Silva, Elisabete Mendes
Enlightenment
Isaiah Berlin on the importance of the sciences and the humanities
Counter-Enlightenment
Sciences
Humanities
title_short Enlightenment versus Counter-Enlightenment: Isaiah Berlin’s account of the role of the sciences and the humanities
title_full Enlightenment versus Counter-Enlightenment: Isaiah Berlin’s account of the role of the sciences and the humanities
title_fullStr Enlightenment versus Counter-Enlightenment: Isaiah Berlin’s account of the role of the sciences and the humanities
title_full_unstemmed Enlightenment versus Counter-Enlightenment: Isaiah Berlin’s account of the role of the sciences and the humanities
title_sort Enlightenment versus Counter-Enlightenment: Isaiah Berlin’s account of the role of the sciences and the humanities
author Silva, Elisabete Mendes
author_facet Silva, Elisabete Mendes
author_role author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Silva, Elisabete Mendes
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Enlightenment
Isaiah Berlin on the importance of the sciences and the humanities
Counter-Enlightenment
Sciences
Humanities
topic Enlightenment
Isaiah Berlin on the importance of the sciences and the humanities
Counter-Enlightenment
Sciences
Humanities
description In this article I intend to describe and analyse Isaiah Berlin’s critical insight regarding the role of both the sciences and humanities nowadays and how the divorce between these two areas of study became clear since the seventeenth century up to the present day. Despite admiring some of the Enlightenment values, Berlin put himself firmly on the side of the Counter-Enlightenment philosophers – Vico, Herder and Hamann –, as he also denied the existence of a priori truths and axiomatic truths leading to the belief in a perfect world. This gulf will be stressed as a means to present Berlin’s theories, that of agonistic liberalism and value-pluralism, always striving for the importance of both the sciences and the humanities.
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