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APPENDIX A

Humanism

There is a vast literature on humanism and many defini-

tions of the term. Moreover, some scholars have argued that

the term has had so many meanings that it is “indefinable.”

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Hence, this book uses the term in a specific way and it draws

on two perspectives. One consists of survey articles by schol-

ars with deep expertise on humanism. The other, inevitably,

is the viewpoint of the author. This has been shaped, in part,

by many years of reading and teaching about Machiavelli; a

long-standing interest in Michel de Montaigne, his essays,

and the many interpretations of them; and the ideas and

intellectual viewpoint of the great contemporary humanist

and historian of ideas, Isaiah Berlin.

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