NYRblog - Isaiah Berlin's Civilized Malice - The New York Review ...

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ue, 12 Jan 2010 20:28:00 GM

The hostile review of . Isaiah Berlin's. correspondence by A.N. Wilson in the TLS which has set off a heated controversy about Berlin and his reputation exhibited a misunderstandin​g of university life as well as of the nature of Sir ...

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Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:24:47 GM

First published over fifty years ago, . Isaiah Berlin's. compelling portrait of the father of modern Communism has long been considered a classic of modern scholarship and the best short account written of Marx's life and thought. ...

Isaiah Berlin on Political Judgement | Exploring the interactions ...

Sina Odugbemi

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:48:28 GM

In one of Sir . Isaiah Berlin's. collections of essays, The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and their History, he has an essay titled 'Political Judgement' that is worth reading. According to Berlin, political judgement is the ...

Cultural Diversity, Liberal Pluralism and Schools: Isaiah Berlin ...

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Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:53:50 GM

Product DescriptionWith​ debates on the relationship between cultural diversity and the role of schools raging on both sides of the Atlantic, the time is apt for a philosophical work that shines new light on the issues involved and that ...

The Problem With Political Reporting

steveneidman

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:35:28 GM

My claim: We have come upon something interfering with political journalism's sense of reality as the philosopher . Isaiah Berlin. called it (see section 5.1) And I think I have a term for the confusing factor: a quest for innocence in ...

"A Tribute to Isaiah Berlin ." THE PHILOSOPHER'S ZONE December 19 ...

Richard L. W. Clarke

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:42:00 GM

Isaiah Berlin. was born in Russia a hundred years ago, on 6 June 1909. He grew up to be a distinguished philosopher, a great historian of ideas - tracing the origins and vicissitudes of liberal thought over the last few centuries - and ...

Laura Ballarin: Isaiah Berlin : libertad y pluralismo

Laura Ballarin

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:20:00 GM

Ayer por la tarde asisti a una conferencia en Caixa Forum bajo el titulo ". Isaiah Berlin. : el personaje y la obra". La charla fue a cargo de Elena Garcia Guitian, profesora de Ciencia Politica y de la Administracion de la Universidad ...

La civilizada malicia de Isaiah Berlin

jshm

ue, 23 Feb 2010 17:10:31 GM

En el blog del New York Review of Books se publica una nota interesante de Charles Rosen sobre las cartas de . Isaiah Berlin. . AN Wilson habia destrozado el segundo volumen: las cartas mostraban las limitaciones intelectuales del profesor ...

Isaiah Berlin in the Media Putney Debater

putneydebater

ue, 04 Aug 2009 07:14:10 GM

As a student of . Isaiah Berlin's. back in the late 1960s, I have been intrigued by the media treatment of his hundredth birthday, which with one or two exceptions, faithfully celebrates both the memory of his dazzling personality and his ...

Are you a hedgehog or a fox?

Stephen Wang

hu, 28 Jan 2010 21:25:33 GM

Ben Macintyre summarises . Isaiah Berlin's. suggestion that there are two kinds of thinkers: the hedgehog and the fox. The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. Hedgehog writers, argued Berlin, see the world ...

Torn and frayed in Manila: "Religion is, at base, nonsense"

torn and frayed

Sun, 04 Sep 2005 07:20:16 GM

Near the end of his life, . Isaiah Berlin. wrote these words to a correspondent who had asked the great imponderable: "As for the meaning of life, I do not believe that it has any. I do not at all ask what it is, but I suspect that it has ...

The rhetoric of freedom

Humbly Presumptuous

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:39:00 GM

Sir . Isaiah Berlin. , in his Four Essays on Liberty, distinguished between "freedom from" and "freedom to": ie a negative idea of liberty, as freedom from constraint, and a positive idea, that gives to liberty a positive content, ...

Symposium: Is Hannah Arendt Still Relevant? | FrontPage Magazine

Jamie Glazov

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:03:48 GM

Isaiah Berlin. , in his life's work exposed the fallacy and the dangers of such a view of the world. Arendt attempted something similar to Marx, though she was certainly no Marxist this notwithstanding​ her celebration of Rosa Luxemburg ...

George Crowder & Henry Hardy (eds), The One And the Many: Reading ...

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:26:57 GM

Isaiah Berlin. is widely acknowledged as a major figure in twentieth-centu​ry political philosophy and the history of ideas. His famous Oxford inaugural lecture, Two Concepts of Liberty, especially the last, crucial section, entitled The ...

Across the Bay: Juan More Time

Tony

Fri, 08 Jul 2005 14:13:00 GM

The Montgolfiere of self-puffery, to quote a friend of mine, invokes . Isaiah Berlin. in order to sell his new schtick (what, no more Star Wars analogies?): Berlin is saying that in the real world, there are situations in which you can ...

Israel News: Jewish state for the Jewish people

News Service

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:03:00 GM

Isaiah Berlin. stated that "[equality] is neither more nor less rational than any other ultimate principle." The basic point of departure of a liberal society is that equality is the primary value that must be applied, but it is possible ...

permalink - The Angry Economist

unknown

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 01:35:48 GM

In short, the old . Isaiah Berlin. claims about the distinction do not hold up. Clearly George has no conception of the difference. The "freedom from want and fear" are both in fact the freedom to coerce somebody else into supplying ...

Joerge Dyrkton: 'The Rights Revolution' by Michael Ignatieff - A ...

Joerge Dyrkton

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:43:00 GM

For the British, he wrote about his mentor Sir . Isaiah Berlin. , the exemplary historian of ideas, himself a subtle blend of various traditions and quintessential English liberty, a conservative liberal and admired Oxford icon. ...

Now's the time: ephemerae1, fox, roll

Plutarch

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:00:00 GM

When I read War and Peace for the second time, I followed it up with a study of the novel by . Isaiah Berlin. . In it, Berlin invokes the proverb of the fox, who knows a lot of little things and the hedgehog who knows one big thing, ...

TheBSideToTheTruth: The Flaw of Perception of Media, School, and ...

The B Side To The Truth

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:09:00 GM

Isaiah Berlin. "Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. ...