![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In any case, Berlin employs the analogy of the Hedgehog and the Fox to illuminate two fundamentally different types of thinking: Archilochus may, of course, be pointing out the distinction in skills without attributing superior worth. A hedgehog just rolls itself up into a very effective spikey ball. Foxes can run and dart and hide and pounce. This line has sometimes been taken to suggest that hedgehogs are superior to foxes, because their singular defensive skill trumps the many and various wiles of the fox. βThe fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.β In his celebrated 1953 essay on Tolstoy, β The Hedgehog and the Fox,β philosopher Isaiah Berlin quotes a fragment attributed to the Ancient Greek poet Archilochus: ![]()
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