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A paper which considers the different types of statecraft employed by Kutuzov and Napoleon in Tolstoy's War and Peace, and outlines the reasons why the Russian's methods were successful where the French general's were not. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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one can account for the success of Kutuzov in War and Peace, and the failure of Napoleon, through considering the way in which individuals perceive their role within the broader
context of society as a whole. Berlin divides human beings into two main groups, hedgehogs and foxes: the latter "knows many things" but the former knows "one big thing".
This assertion can be interpreted in various ways. One might say, for example, that although
the fox is cunning and has many different tactics which he can try, the hedgehogs single form of defence is sufficient to thwart them all. Or, as Winn (2004) suggests,
it can refer to the dichotomy between those who accept a single unifying principle underlying all forms of philosophy and thought, and those who take multiple and sometimes conflicting perspectives.
The "hedgehogs" are those who believe in a kind of universal "master plan" which gives significance to all ones actions, and the "foxes" are those who have much more diverse
beliefs, and who will look at a variety of experiences without attempting to fit them into this "master plan" - they do not see it as necessary to establish some
kind of holistic pattern, into which all experiences must be forced to fit.
Berlin regarded hedgehogs as potentially dangerous, since their convictions regarding a "one true way" of existence meant that they were capable of tyrannical dogmatism: he cites Hitler and Stalin as
examples, and one can see a similar pattern in those countries where religious dogma, such as that of Islam or Christianity, becomes the essential substructure to government and legislation. Berlin
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