In the mid-1950s, the British philosopher Isaiah Berlin wrote an essay that riffed, so to speak, on an observation by an ancient Greek poet: that a fox knows many things, but a hedgehog one important thing.
“Scholars have differed about the correct interpretation of these dark words,” noted Berlin. “[But] there exists a great chasm between those, on one side, who relate everything to a single central vision [the hedgehogs]…and, on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory [the foxes].”
In other words, you can divide people into two types: the monomaniacs, whose thinking...
“Scholars have differed about the correct interpretation of these dark words,” noted Berlin. “[But] there exists a great chasm between those, on one side, who relate everything to a single central vision [the hedgehogs]…and, on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory [the foxes].”
In other words, you can divide people into two types: the monomaniacs, whose thinking...
- 4/2/2018
- by Stephen Galloway
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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