1 day 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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4 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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5 days ago by Björn

Brev till Felix Frankfurter, 23 augusti 1937. Isaiah Berlin beskriver oenigheterna inom hans college angående förslaget att bjuda in Bertrand Russell till Oxford under en termin. Det fanns många som var ytterst fientliga till detta förslag, framförallt med tanke på Russells radikalism och okristliga ...

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9 days ago by enricvila

http://www.catalunyaoberta.cat/index.php/continguts/view/opinio/2508 Clica aquí!

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11 days ago by Björn

Negative liberty is ”the open door”, or the possibility to act without being hindered by anyone. My freedom is as vast as the space in which I can do everything I want without anybody’s intervention, and particulary without the intervention of officialdom. And [Isaiah Berlin] noticed something which ...

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12 days ago by Björn

Brev till Elizabeth Bowen, januari 1937. Philistines & bohemians are, as I am delighted to find K. Marx thought, equally vulgarizations of middle classness. Isaiah Berlin, Flourishing. Letters 1928—1946, Chatto & Windus, London, 2004, s. 227. Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Isaiah Berlin

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13 days ago by bechtoldlifeworks

In the past I’ve written about my love of shows like Man of La Mancha and Les Miserables. Actually, I’m a fan of ALL types of theatre, but one man consistently rises to the top for me in the musical theatre genre: composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. For years he’s been on the cutting edge. Just ...

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24 days ago by somacles

Giambattista Vico II “Un pensador que podría haber tenido un papel decisivo en este contramovimiento si alguien fuera de su país nativo lo hubiera leído, fue el napolitano Giambattista Vico. Con extraordinaria originalidad Vico sostuvo, especialmente en la ltima obra de su vida, la Scienza Nuova, qu ...

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25 days ago by Maryam

I know tomorrow is the pep rally and all, but we have a few important things we need to go over like our topic of choice for our guest speaker Dr. James Lark who will be with us on the 21st. Also, I have a couple articles/essays I’d like to hand out to you all tomorrow. One is “ Two Concepts of Libe ...

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26 days ago by somacles

I “La oposición a las ideas centrales de la Ilustración francesa, y a sus aliados y discípulos en otros páíses europeos, es tan vieja como el movimiento mismo. La proclamación de la autonomía de la razón y los métodos de las ciencias naturales, basados en la observación como el nico método de conoci ...

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