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Isaiah Berlin

b: Riga, Russia, Jun 6, 1909

d: Oxford, England, Nov 5, 1997

English. Author. Educator. Philosopher. Breadth of his erudition is suggest in his books on philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and biography Historical Inevitability, 1955. The Age of Enlightenment, 1956.

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Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

Rousseau was the first militant lowbrow.