Isaiah Berlin - Lecture on Joseph de Maistre

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ย. 2013
  • This was the third of the four Woodbridge Lectures, 'Two Enemies of the Enlightenment' (Hamann and Maistre), delivered on the 27th of October in 1965 at the Harkness Theater, Columbia University.

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  • @BogdanLiviu7
    @BogdanLiviu7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Isaiah Berlin, the only man on TH-cam I listen at 0,75 speed. His mind was a treasure to humanity.

    • @thejackbancroft7336
      @thejackbancroft7336 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've been trying to take study notes from this for days now. You just made my life much easier

    • @meirionowen5979
      @meirionowen5979 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks. I wasn't even aware this was possible. I'm listening at 0.5, this chap is worth it.

    • @d.w.8724
      @d.w.8724 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you for this suggestion. Appreciated.

    • @user-we2qv1cx6x
      @user-we2qv1cx6x หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks! I didn’t even know I could do that! It did help

    • @liberalcynic
      @liberalcynic หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@thejackbancroft7336these are all transcribed and published.

  • @SuperGreatSphinx
    @SuperGreatSphinx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    "Joseph de Maistre was unquestionably one of the greatest thinkers and writers of the eighteenth century."
    - George Edward Bateman Saintsbury

  • @karasu-chan
    @karasu-chan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I miss him so much bros. He’s easily my favorite Jew ever.

  • @joshua_finch
    @joshua_finch 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Constitutionalism is indeed an impossible task. Thank you, de Maistre.

  • @jeffsmith1798
    @jeffsmith1798 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    De Maistre is one of the (if not the) clearest arguers for Thrasymachus’ position in Book I of the Republic.

  • @blueoctavo
    @blueoctavo 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    thank you for posting, excellent!

  • @LoliPantsu8
    @LoliPantsu8 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Maistre is a criminally underrated thinker. I hate that he's dismissed as a historical curiosity or as some religious nut

    • @chrisyuri4187
      @chrisyuri4187 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes I bought his books, cost a fortune but man it was worth it. Everything he writes is as relevant today as it was back then, amazing insight and the truth he writes strikes at the heart. You can dismiss him as religious, but the funny part is, he wasn't really religious.

    • @latitudeselongitudes1932
      @latitudeselongitudes1932 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@chrisyuri4187
      What makes you think he was not religious?

    • @chrisyuri4187
      @chrisyuri4187 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@latitudeselongitudes1932 I don't have any direct quotes but from reading St Petersburg Dialogues it was clear to me at least that de Maistre viewed religion like Cicero does in "De re publica", that it is a means for social cohesion through traditions and ceremonies that build community and loyalty, and also political control in providing justifications for various laws and necessary hierarchies. Cicero observed Roman religious traditions but never believed that the God's were real, I think the same goes for de Maistre based on what I read.

    • @latitudeselongitudes1932
      @latitudeselongitudes1932 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@chrisyuri4187
      A sort of cultural approach to religion,i see.Thank you for your answer

    • @generalguy6211
      @generalguy6211 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@chrisyuri4187 That's profoundly stupid.
      Just because someone thinks religion is "a means for social cohesion through traditions and ceremonies that build community and loyalty, and also political control in providing justifications for various laws and necessary hierarchies", you don't believe that God's real. In fact it would be to conclude, that because I think math is useful therefore I don't really believe in math, but merely think 2+2=4 is a useful social construct.
      In fact you can't in good conscience call yourself catholic and dismiss traditions, ceremonies or privatize your religion whenever "politics" happens.

  • @letsrelaxwithtexts2114
    @letsrelaxwithtexts2114 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    He was a master speaker...

  • @b.terenceharwick3222
    @b.terenceharwick3222 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    For a compatible but different cut on de Maistre's role in the development yet derailment of Western thought, it is worth considering Eric Voegelin's account in pp. 183-194,
    From Enlightenment to Revolution...

  • @suneethamay3615
    @suneethamay3615 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Another Krishna Murthy
    there as Maistry
    He didn't know Lynn is the
    cast and meastri
    is just an ugly lable and not the
    sername or the cast looks
    like Historian knows very
    Iittle about real history

  • @hubertusvenator5838
    @hubertusvenator5838 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I can hardly understand a word that this enemy of the Faith utters. He mangles both the English and the French tongues. The quest for peace during this mortal life is futile. See Job 7:1. Liberalism, anthropocentricity, is narcissism. Sardinia was part of the Savoyard monarchy. I'm a Columbia College alumnus. The Columbia ignoramuses' puerile levity is unsurprising. Only God is sovereign. The creatures are subjects. The purpose of life is to obey God. Disobedience to God is Luciferianism. Satan has dominium in this world.

    • @mills8102
      @mills8102 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      "Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

    • @karasu-chan
      @karasu-chan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Cringe.

    • @gamerhegel7780
      @gamerhegel7780 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      12 years old mentally

    • @plekkchand
      @plekkchand 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes. Satan has considerable supplies not only of dominium, but aluminum and vanadium.

    • @hubertusvenator5838
      @hubertusvenator5838 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@plekkchand I know what aluminium, AI 13, is. What is aluminum?