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    Sir Isaiah Berlin OM CBE FBA (24 May/6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997) was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of...
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    Counter-Enlightenment was popularised by pro-Enlightenment historian Isaiah Berlin as a tradition of relativist, anti-rationalist, vitalist, and organic...
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  • Nigerian politician Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas Isaiah Bolden (born 1999), American...
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    of the press. Many contemporary philosophers like Charles Taylor and Isaiah Berlin make a distinction between "positive freedom" and "negative freedom"...
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  • Two Concepts of Liberty (category Isaiah Berlin)
    distortion, negative and positive liberty are not the same thing." Isaiah Berlin, Five Essays on Liberty: An Introduction "Two Concepts of Liberty" was...
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  • effective way to moderate between discrete values. Political theorist Isaiah Berlin, a strong supporter of pluralism, wrote: "let us have the courage of...
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    and egalitarianism. The college houses The Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust and hosts an annual Isaiah Berlin Lecture. From 2017, the president of the college...
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  • Positive liberty (category Isaiah Berlin)
    have their voices, interests, and concerns recognized and acted upon. Isaiah Berlin's essay "Two Concepts of Liberty" (1958) is typically acknowledged as...
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  • set of values in itself. Oxford philosopher and historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin is credited with being the first to popularize a substantial work describing...
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    Henry Hardy (category Isaiah Berlin scholars)
    thesis. It was at Wolfson that Hardy met Wolfson's then President, Isaiah Berlin. Hardy's first edited volume was a collection of writings by Arnold...
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    was condemned for a visit by the liberal, western, Jewish philosopher Isaiah Berlin in 1945, and Andrei Zhdanov publicly labelled her "half harlot, half...
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  • The Hedgehog and the Fox (category Books by Isaiah Berlin)
    philosopher Isaiah Berlin that was published as a book in 1953. It was one of his most popular essays with the general public. However, Berlin said, "I meant...
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    (pseudonym of A.S. Gruzinsky). cited by "Quotations cited by Isaiah Berlin". Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library, Wolfson College, Oxford, University of Oxford...
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    below. In philosophy and the history of ideas, Romanticism was seen by Isaiah Berlin as disrupting for over a century the classic Western traditions of rationality...
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    Negative liberty (category Isaiah Berlin)
    by T. H. Green and Guido De Ruggiero, and is now best known through Isaiah Berlin's 1958 lecture "Two Concepts of Liberty". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy...
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  • Isaiah Berlin also known as Yeshaye Pick (c. October 1719 in Eisenstadt, Kingdom of Hungary – May 13, 1799 in Breslau), was a German Talmudist. Berlin...
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  • and Gerard Philips who later founded the Philips Electronics company. Isaiah Berlin writes of Heinrich Marx that he believed that man is by nature both...
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  • 2001, pp. 123–124. Lilla 2001, p. 124. Berlin, Isaiah; Jahanbegloo, Ramin (1991). Conversations with Isaiah Berlin (1st ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's...
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    States—including Karl Popper, Friedrich Hayek, Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Eric Voegelin and Judith Shklar—encouraged continued study in political...
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    OCLC 810098009. Isaiah Berlin, Karl Marx: His Life and Environment (Oxford University Press: Oxford, England, 1963) pp. 159–160. Isaiah Berlin, Karl Marx:...
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  • something real and do this in a way that is easy to remember and apply. Isaiah Berlin used the metaphor of a "fox" and a "hedgehog" to make conceptual distinctions...
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    for his novel 1985, and The Guest from the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin. Dalos was born in Budapest and spent his childhood with his grandparents...
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    cynically referred to by characters in Chekhov's "An Anonymous Story". Isaiah Berlin acclaimed Turgenev's commitment to humanism, pluralism, and gradual...
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  • when everybody finds it valuable. This was Isaiah Berlin's understanding of the term. According to Berlin, "...universal values....are values that a great...
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  • realise that Isaiah Berlin was wrong, and that not all attempts to change the world for the better necessarily lead to tyranny. Isaiah Berlin, political...
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  • Hour, 1960 Isaiah Berlin (Latvia/United Kingdom, 1909–1997) is most famous for his attempt to distinguish 'two conceptions of liberty'. Berlin argued that...
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    Leo Amery (1897), politician J. L. Austin (1933), philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin (1932), philosopher George Earle Buckle (1877), journalist George Curzon...
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    Supervenience Theory"', Sorites, no. 9, pp. 16–31. Berlin, Isaiah (2004), The Refutation of Phenomenalism, Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library. Chisholm, Roderick M. (September...
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  • Mark Lilla (category Isaiah Berlin scholars)
    with the works of Isaiah Berlin; with Ronald Dworkin and Robert B. Silvers, he edited the memorial volume, The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin in 2001. In the 1990s...
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    interest in Vico usually has been motivated by historicists, such as Isaiah Berlin, a philosopher and historian of ideas, Edward Said, a literary critic...
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