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The history of philosophy, and perhaps especially of moral, social and political philosophy, is there to prevent us from becoming too readily bewitched. The intellectual historian can help us to appre...

Quentin Skinner

The history of philosophy, and perhaps especially of moral, social and political philosophy, is there to prevent us from becoming too readily bewitched. The intellectual historian can help us to appre...

Tags: history of thought, politics

The intellectual historian can help us to appreciate how far the values embodied in our present way of life, and our present ways of thinking about those values, reflect a series of choices made at di...

Quentin Skinner

The intellectual historian can help us to appreciate how far the values embodied in our present way of life, and our present ways of thinking about those values, reflect a series of choices made at di...

About Author
Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner (born 26 November 1940) is a British intellectual historian. He is regarded as one of the founders of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought. He has won numerous prizes for his work, including the Wolfson History Prize in 1979 and the Balzan Prize in 2006. Between 1996 and 2008 he was Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. He is the Emeritus Professor of the Humanities and Co-director of The Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary University of London.

Харрингтон в Океании сходнымобразом отсылает к «целому телу народа», а позже, в Поли-тической системе, сообщает, что «форма правления соответ-ствует образу человека». Особенно систематично применяетэт...

Quentin Skinner

Харрингтон в Океании сходнымобразом отсылает к «целому телу народа», а позже, в Поли-тической системе, сообщает, что «форма правления соответ-ствует образу человека». Особенно систематично применяетэт...