Essentialism and Human Nature. Excerpts from “Unfinished Dialogue” Cover Image

Między ludzką naturą a esencjalizmem. Fragmenty „Unfinished Dialogue”
Essentialism and Human Nature. Excerpts from “Unfinished Dialogue”

Author(s): Isaiah Berlin, Beata Polanowska-Sygulska
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Political Philosophy, Civil Society, Politics and law, Philosophy of Law
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej – Sekcja Polska IVR
Keywords: Isaiah Berlin; Unfinished Dialogue; essentialism; human nature

Summary/Abstract: The text consists of the excerpts from a book “Unfinished Dialogue” by Isaiah Berlin and Beata Polanowska-Sygulska published in New York in 2006. The passages include one of the letters that the British philosopher wrote to Beata Polanowska-Sygulska in 1986, printed earlier in „The New York Review of Books”, and a transcript from a discussion between Isaiah Berlin, Beata Polanowska-Sygulska and John Gray that took place in 1988. (English title, abstract and keywords supplied by the editors)

  • Issue Year: 11/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 5-19
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish