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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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  • 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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  • 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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    foundation in 1965. 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • (born 1986), British violinist and orchestrator Isaiah Balat (1952–2014), Nigerian politician Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), British social and political theorist...
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    Henry Hardy (category Isaiah Berlin scholars)
    Experience'. 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    human nature is its tendency to diverge and diversify. According to Isaiah Berlin, Romanticism embodied "a new and restless spirit, seeking violently...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    liberty is subject to capability and limited by the rights of others. Isaiah Berlin made a distinction between "positive" freedom and "negative" freedom...
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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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    Wittgenstein, A. J. Ayer, Walter Benjamin, Raymond Aron, Theodor W. Adorno, Isaiah Berlin and Henri Bergson. A range of moral and political views is evident early...
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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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  • 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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  • Berlyn Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), Russian empire-born British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin (rabbi)...
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  • Spectator (23 May 1998). 'A liberal icon' [review of Michael Ignatieff, Isaiah Berlin], The Spectator (17 October 1998) 'The intelligent populist' [profile...
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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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    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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    John Gray (philosopher) (category Isaiah Berlin scholars)
    liberalism appears in Gray's 1995 book Isaiah Berlin. Gray uses this phrase to describe what he believes is Berlin's theory of politics, namely his support...
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