![]() All we have left from ancient Greek times that’s relevant to Archilochus is fragments of his writings and a few stories about him. ![]() Second, it’s not clear what Archilochus meant by the quotation. You may think that one of the two types is better, but that’s your opinion, not Berlin’s. He thought that there were a lot of important thinkers in each camp. To me anyway what’s being highlighted is the appropriateness and utility of both approaches depending on whether you are in the fox’s situation or the hedgehog’s.įirst of all, Isaiah Berlin wasn’t trying to praise one sort of thinker and disparage another sort of thinker in using the quotation. I think the missing piece is the way in which a particular situation or or life situation plays into whether to think like a fox or a hedgehog. While this might capture the sense of the Isaiah Berlin Essay, the quote itself does not read that way to me (of course that’s probably just me). And they can cause a helluva lot of damage by hammering on flowers, eggs, and skulls, thinking they’re all nails. The idea is that to them, all the world is a nail, given their sledgehammer of an idea. Or maybe they know that Monty Python is the pinnacle of humor and that quoting them is always funny. ![]() Or maybe they know that the proletariat must overthrow their masters and rend the chains of capitalism. They might know that Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Light, and base their lives around that. ![]() ![]() That one big thing can be any number of different big things. ![]()
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