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18
Nov
2009
Begreppsanalys ger svindel (Paul Valery & Isaiah Berlin)

7 days ago by Björn

Brev till Cressida Nonham Carter, mars 1939. [Paul Valery] said words were like thin planks over precipices [stup/avgrund], & if you crossed rapidly nothing happened, but if you stopped on any of them & stared into the gulf you would get vertigo & that was what philosophers were doing. Isaiah Berlin ...

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17
Nov
2009
George Scialabba asks and answers What Intellectuals Are Good For.

7 days ago by jeffkellylowenstein3

George Scialabba will be speaking at Powell's Bookstore Friday night. It can be hard to write what is in essence a review of reviews. Fortunately, George Scialabba’s wit, erudition, political and moral sensibility and sheer depth of knowledge make the task a lot easier. All are on abundant display i ...

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14
Nov
2009
Freedom and Its Adversaries, post debate

11 days ago by pragensismac

With the panels now over, it’s up to Madam Secretary to hold the floor with the students; so, some highlights from this morning: Jacques Rupnik spoke first on the obvious enemies of Freedom such as homogeneity, nationalism, and collectivity. Today it is the less obvious enemy of the Elite; there is ...

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13
Nov
2009
“En pos del ideal. Isaiah Berlin sobre violencia y politica”.

12 days ago by narenas51

Videos del Seminario Isaiah Berlin después de 100 años Conferencia: “En pos del ideal. Isaiah Berlin sobre violencia y politica”. Gloria Maria Gallego, PhD Derecho, profesora Universidad Eafit

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Seminario Isaiah Berlin después de 100 años.

12 days ago by narenas51

Seminario Isaiah Berlin después de 100 años. Seminario Isaiah Berlin después de 100 años. Videos del Seminario Isaiah Berlin después de 100 años Conferencia: Isaiah Berlin: An Overview. George Crowder, Flinders University. BA LLA, (Victoria University of Wellington) Las obras de este pensador sobre ...

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12
Nov
2009
”The Birth of Greek Individualism” (Isaiah Berlin)

13 days ago by Björn

”The Birth of Greek Individualism”, Liberty, red. Henry Hardy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, s. 287–321. Isaiah Berlin urskiljer tre avgörande vändningar i det politiska tänkandets historia. 1962 avhandlade han dessa i tre föreläsningar vid Yale. The three crises in Western political theory ...

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Thoughts about thinking politicians

13 days ago by John Geddes

Whenever we seriously consider a political leader—or, for that matter, any public figure—one of the inevitable problems is to try to reconcile what they do with what we imagine they think. To put it another way, we wonder how public actions are derived from private reflection. So when, for example, ...

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10
Nov
2009
Isaiah Berlin om liberalismens uppkomst

15 days ago by Björn

I think liberalism is essentially the belief of people who have lived on the same soil for a long time in comparative peace with each other. An English invention. Isaiah Berlin citerad i Jan-Werner Mllers artikel Fear and Freedom: On ‘Cold War Liberalism’ (European Journal of Political Theory, Vol. ...

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07
Nov
2009
Nyheten om Chamberlain i Mnchen (Isaiah Berlin)

18 days ago by Björn

Brev till Elizabeth Bowen, september 1938. Isaiah har åkt nattåg och delat kupé med en hästhandlare. In some wayside station at 6. am. men in pyjamas ran out & bought newspapers, with Chamberlain’s journey in them: ‘the war is postponed’ said my horsedealer & then something like ‘whizzbang’ & went t ...

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04
Nov
2009
Positive and Negative Freedom

21 days ago by About Interactive Democracy

Isaiah Berlin, in his 1958 essay "Two Concepts of Liberty", identified negative freedoms (from interference by others) and positive freedoms (to achieve). Interactive Democracy gives us all the positive freedom to express our democratic wishes, issue by issue, and gives us the democratic power to ma ...

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