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Not one of you?
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Famous, famous English philosopher, died a number of years ago in the
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late 90s.
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This, I hope, will be an inspiration to--you should read Isaiah Berlin.
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In any case, he wrote a wonderful essay called
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In it he asks, "What is the intellectual quality
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that successful statesmen possess that distinguishes their knowledge
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from all other forms of rationality and knowledge?"
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He writes as follows.
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I'm going to quote him. "The quality that I am attempting to
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describe is that special understanding of public life,
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which successful statesmen have, whether they are wicked or virtuous.