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Tag Archives: Popper
How Isaiah Berlin Revised the “Two Concepts” (A Concluding Philological Postscript)
Having finished my three posts on the exchange of letters between Karl Popper and Isaiah Berlin, I’m ready to reward myself by rolling around in the some of the nGram catnip that I’ve been accumulating. But there’s one bit of … Continue reading
Berlin & Popper on Liberty & Enlightenment (Part III – Berlin’s Response)
I’ve devoted two previous posts to Karl Popper’s comments on Isaiah Berlin’s 1958 inaugural lecture “Two Concepts of Liberty,” as laid out in his letter to Berlin of February 17, 1959. This post will focus on Berlin’s response in his … Continue reading
Isaiah Berlin & Karl Popper on Liberty & Enlightenment (Part II)
Last Sunday (which, for those of us who live in the Boston area, seems like the distant past), I began an examination of Karl Popper’s comments on Isaiah Berlin’s 1958 lecture “Two Concepts of Liberty” in his letter to Berlin … Continue reading
Karl Popper & Isaiah Berlin on Liberty & Enlightenment (Part I)
On October 31, 1958, Isaiah Berlin assumed the Chichele Chair of Social and Political Theory at Oxford and delivered his inaugural lecture, “Two Concepts of Liberty.” The lecture — which is now regarded as one of the more important contributions … Continue reading
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