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“The history of philosophy… is there to prevent us from becoming too readily bewitched. The intellectual historian can help us to appreciate how far the values embodied in our present way of life… reflect a series of choices made at different times between different possible worlds… Equipped with a broader sense of possibility, we can stand back from the intellectual commitments we have inherited and ask ourselves in a new spirit of enquiry what we should think of them.”
Quentin Skinner, Liberty before Liberalism