![]() ![]() In the end of his essay, however, Berlin ( 1953) suggests that all of us have components of both fox and hedgehog within us. A few exemplars are identified in the book that Shakespeare, Aristotle, Erasmus, Goethe, and Pushkin are foxes, whilst Dante, Plato, Pascal, Hegel, and Dostoevsky are hedgehogs. In other words, foxes settle for what they know and may live happy lives, while hedgehogs will not settle and their lives may not be happy Ignatieff (Hardy, 2014, p. The hedgehogs cannot accept that they know only many things instead, they seek to know one big thing and strive without ceasing to give reality a unifying shape. ![]() ![]() On the other hand, the hedgehog does not (or more preciously will not) make peace with the world by being not reconciled. The critical point of the foxes is that they are reconciled to the limits of what they know. ![]() According to Berlin ( 1953), the fox is one who knows many things, and more importantly accepts that s/he can only know many things but the unity of reality must escape her/his grasp. ![]()
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