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.

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Isaiah Berlin canonical	43
Isaiah Berlin: A Life	2
Sir Isaiah Berlin	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	British person ⓘ Latvian Jew ⓘ essayist ⓘ historian of ideas ⓘ human ⓘ philosopher ⓘ political philosopher ⓘ
awardReceived	Knight Bachelor ⓘ Order of Merit ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ surface form: 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 self-link ⓘ
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 ⓘ

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On Liberty → influenced → Isaiah Berlin ⓘ

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The Hedgehog and the Fox → author → Isaiah Berlin ⓘ

Russian Thinkers → author → Isaiah Berlin ⓘ

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The Crooked Timber of Humanity → author → Isaiah Berlin ⓘ

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Four Essays on Liberty → author → Isaiah Berlin ⓘ

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The Originality of Machiavelli → author → Isaiah Berlin ⓘ

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The Apotheosis of the Romantic Will → author → Isaiah Berlin ⓘ

The Pursuit of the Ideal → author → Isaiah Berlin ⓘ

Alleged Relativism in Eighteenth-Century European Thought → author → Isaiah Berlin ⓘ

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European Unity and Its Vicissitudes → author → Isaiah Berlin ⓘ

The Decline of Utopian Ideas in the West → author → Isaiah Berlin ⓘ

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subject surface form: Princeton Classics edition of The Crooked Timber of Humanity

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subject surface form: Princeton Classics edition of The Crooked Timber of Humanity

Enlightenment’s Wake → influencedBy → Isaiah Berlin ⓘ

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Encyclopaedia Judaica → hasNotableContributor → Isaiah Berlin ⓘ

Historical Inevitability → author → Isaiah Berlin ⓘ

Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century → author → Isaiah Berlin ⓘ

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