“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing” Ancient Greek poet Archilochus The hedgehog knows only one very important thing: when in danger it will curl up into a prickly ball to defy the cunning fox, who despite knowing an infinite variety of things, is defeated. The Oxford philosopher Isaiah Berlin (in his essay on Tolstoy in 1953[1]) divided up historical figures between hedgehogs and foxes: those who believed in a central unified philosophy in which all other things made…
‘The hedgehog market’
08 Feb 2019
Posted by Barry Norris