Isaiah Berlin

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British person Latvian Jew essayist historian of ideas human philosopher political philosopher

Isaiah Berlin was a 20th-century political philosopher and historian of ideas best known for his writings on liberalism, value pluralism, and the concept of negative and positive liberty.

Statements (65)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	British person → Latvian Jew → essayist → historian of ideas → human → philosopher → political philosopher →
awardReceived	Knight Bachelor → Order of Merit (United Kingdom) →
birthDate	1909-06-06 →
birthPlace	Riga → Russian Empire →
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom →
deathDate	1997-11-05 →
educatedAt	Corpus Christi College, Oxford → St Paul’s School, London → University of Oxford →
employer	All Souls College, Oxford → New College, Oxford → University of Oxford →
ethnicGroup	Jewish →
familyName	Berlin →
fieldOfWork	history of ideas → intellectual history → liberalism → political philosophy → value pluralism →
genre	essay → intellectual biography → political theory →
givenName	Isaiah →
influenced	Bernard Williams → Charles Taylor → John Gray → Michael Walzer → liberal political theory in the 20th century →
influencedBy	Alexander Herzen → Immanuel Kant → John Stuart Mill → Karl Marx → Vico →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	British Academy →
movement	liberalism → pluralism →
name	Isaiah Berlin →
notableIdea	agonistic value conflict → distinction between negative and positive liberty → negative liberty → positive liberty → value pluralism →
notableWork	Against the Current → Four Essays on Liberty → Russian Thinkers → The Crooked Timber of Humanity → The Hedgehog and the Fox → Two Concepts of Liberty →
occupation	lecturer → philosopher → university teacher →
placeOfDeath	England → Oxford →
positionHeld	Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory → President of the British Academy →
religion	Judaism →

Referenced by (15)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Against the Current → Four Essays on Liberty → Russian Thinkers → The Crooked Timber of Humanity → The Hedgehog and the Fox → Two Concepts of Liberty →	author
Ernst Cassirer → Giambattista Vico → John Stuart Mill → John Stuart Mill → On Liberty → Vico →	influenced
Balliol College, Oxford →	hasNotableFellow
John Gray →	influencedBy
Isaiah Berlin →	name