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	Isaiah Berlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Isaiah Berlin (June 6, 1909 – November 5, 1997) was a political philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal thinkers of the 20th century.
		In Berlin's words, the choice is whether one believes that "the lives of entire peoples and societies have been decisively influenced by exceptional individuals" or, rather, that whatever happens occurs as a result of impersonal forces oblivious to human intentions.
		Isaiah Berlin was once confused with Irving Berlin by Winston Churchill who invited the latter for lunch, thinking he was the former.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isaiah_Berlin (1035 words)

	Isaiah Berlin
		Isaiah Berlin was one of the most formidable defenders of philosophical liberalism and distinguished practitioners of the history of ideas.
		Berlin was a founding father with Austin, Ayer, and others of Oxford philosophy, but after publishing several papers on the rebellion against idealism, he broke away from the general spirit of positivism.
		Berlin's central dichotomy of monists and pluralists and his interest in such Counter-Enlightenment figures as Vico, was later interpreted as an attack on the values of Enlightenment.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /berlin.htm (1471 words)

	Man in the News: Sir Isaiah Berlin
		Sir Isaiah's conversational flow, however, demands a quick ear, for he talks at four times the normal speed and in a thick Oxonian accent that overlies his native Latvian.
		Berlin" was invited to dinner at 10 Downing Street, where the Prime Minister and his companion spent a baffling hour until it was discovered that the guest was Irving Berlin, the songwriter, to whom the invitation had been misaddressed.
		Isaiah Berlin was born June 6, 1909, in Riga, Latvia.
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	BBC News \| UK \| Philosopher and political thinker Sir Isaiah Berlin dies
		Thought by many to be the dominant scholar of his generation, the death of Sir Isaiah, an extraordinary, life-loving man with a mind like an encyclopaedia, leaves a hole in the intellectual life of Britain impossible to fill.
		Isaiah Berlin was perhaps also a fox, intrigued by many ideas, unendingly curious, open-minded and pleading above all for tolerance.
		Isaiah Berlin went to school in London and to unversity at Oxford.
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	Commonweal: My dinners with Isaiah: the music of a philosopher's life - Sir Isaiah Berlin - includes related article on ...
		It was that mercury in Isaiah, that breakneck way he had of going from one thing to another as if he were composing a sonata: the melodies and sonorities of the mind and the imagination always in tune, at perfect pitch.
		Isaiah corrected me and looked at that moment at a beautiful young woman with a fall of the most luminous blond hair who was seated nearby.
		Isaiah's soul is most clear to me in his essay on Verdi, "The Naivete of Verdi." His sensibility is captured there - all the themes of his intellect, of his spirit.
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	Sir Isaiah Berlin & the history of ideas
		Berlin was advised by British diplomats that he would find extreme difficulty in speaking with anyone other than the officials assigned to him by the communist regime which had a tradition of attempting to discourage meetings between Soviet citizens and foreigners.
		Sir Isaiah's lectures were often not published and his essays were scattered in so many magazines and journals that his body of work was inaccessible to most people.
		An initial opening of Berlin's interest to the whole area of the history of ideas, and of their influence, arising through his becoming familiar with the work of the Russian philosopher and revolutionary Alexander Herzen.
	www.age-of-the-sage.org /history/historian/Isaiah_Berlin.html (1642 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Berlin Sir Isaiah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Berlin, Sir Isaiah (1909-1997), Latvian-born British philosopher and historian of ideas.
		Berlin's family moved to Russia and then came to Britain in...
		Barbirolli was also principal conductor of the Houston Symphony Orchestra (1961-1967) and guest conductor with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra from...
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	The Sir Isaiah Berlin Memorial Lecture - Hampstead Synagogue - 16 June 2003
		Sir Isaiah attributes this idea to Herder: "Herder," he wrote, "laid it down that every culture possesses its own centre of gravity; each culture has its own points of reference; there is no reason why these cultures should fight each other.
		Now Isaiah Berlin saw this as a radical discovery because it suggested that all great monistic visions, whether philosophical like Plato's, or religious like the Christianity and Islam of the Middle Ages, or secular like fascism and communism - all were false and dangerous.
		Sir Isaiah himself was very careful to distinguish between two words, monotheism and monism.
	www.chiefrabbi.org /speeches/iberlin.html (4560 words)

	Berlin, Sir Isaiah on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953), Berlin explored Leo Tolstoy 's view of irresistible historical forces, and in Historical Inevitability (1954) he attacked both determinist and relativist approaches to history as superficial and fallacious.
		Famed philosopher Isaiah Berlin dies: The Latvian-born British scholar was known for his love of human liberty.
		Isaiah Berlin, un liberal por naturaleza.(TT: Isaiah Berlin, a liberal by nature.)(Artículo Breve)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/berlins1ir.asp (388 words)

	Sir Isaiah Berlin : Historian of Ideas
		But Sir Isaiah said he gave no thought to leaving a legacy and insisted that he had no interest whatsoever either in his reputation or in what people would say about him after he died.
		Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga, Latvia, on June 6, 1909, the son of a successful timber merchant and landowner and the grandson, on his mother's side, of a Hasidic rabbi of the ecstatic Lubavitch tradition.
		Although Sir Isaiah had the gift for saying in 90 pages what it took others 900 pages to say less well, colleagues remembered that it took some time for him to come to grips with a nagging feeling that he was a fraud because he had not produced a weighty book-length philosophical work.
	www.rjgeib.com /biography/credo/isaiah-berlin.html (3443 words)

	Concepts and Categories by Isaiah, Sir Berlin, 0140058052, Lowest Book Price Finder
		This collection of eight essays spans the range of Isaiah Berlin's interests, including his role in the disputes of language philosophers in the 1930s, his interest in political philosophy and his later attention to the history of ideas.
		In Berlin's preface to this collection he records his decision to abandon philosophy for history in the 1940s, but by his own definition of philosophy, given in the first essay "The Purpose of Philosophy", he continued to be a philosopher par excellence, radically questioning the models, or categories, by which human beings understand their world.
		Berlin's paradoxical contribution, evident in this collection, was that in committing himself to a life of radical questioning of concepts and categories, he in fact proposed a purpose for life, namely the creation of a society that would not be duped by incoherent and idealistic models of the world.
	www.bookfinder4u.co.uk /book_detail/0140058052 (279 words)

	Sir Isaiah Berlin - A Tribute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		“Isaiah Berlin was one of the most remarkable men of his time, and one of the leading liberal thinkers of the century.
		Sir Isaiah Berlin OM died in Oxford on 5 November 1997.
		These pages are part of a modest tribute to Sir Isaiah, which it is hoped will be improved and added to, as opportunities present themselves.
	www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk /~ben/berlin (113 words)

	Isaiah Berlin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sir Isaiah Berlin OM (1909 - November 5 1997) was a political philosopher and historian of ideas, born in Riga, Latvia.
		Berlin was awarded the Order of Merit in 1957, and also received many other honours, including a Knight Bachelorship.
		His famous essay "Two Concepts of Liberty" in which he distinguished between positive and negative liberty, also called positive and negative freedom, has informed much debate on liberty.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/isaiah_berlin (296 words)

	The Hedgehog and the Fox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Berlin, Sir Isaiah (1953), The Hedgehog and the Fox, New York, Simon and Schuster
		The Hedgehog and the Fox - Isaiah Berlin (excerpt)
		In short, it is an attempt to take Tolstoy's attitude to history as seriously as he himself meant his readers to take it, although for a somewhat different reason-for the light it casts on a single man of genius rather than on the fate of all mankind.
	www.cc.gatech.edu /people/home/idris/Essays/Hedge_n_Fox.htm (451 words)

	Open Directory - Society: Philosophy: Philosophers: B: Berlin, Isaiah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Philosopher and Political Thinker Sir Isaiah Berlin Dies - BBC obituary from 1997.
		Sir Isaiah Berlin - A Tribute from Wolfson College, Oxford.
		Sir Isaiah Berlin Papers - Information on this archive housed at the Bodleian Library, including selected image files and a profile of the thinker.
	dmoz.org /Society/Philosophy/Philosophers/B/Berlin,_Isaiah (225 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Obituary: Sir Henry Fisher
		Sir Henry Fisher, who has died aged 87, brought a brilliant and independent-minded lawyer's gifts of swift absorption of complex facts, clarity and sense to a wide range of institutions.
		His early resignation from the high court bench in 1970, two years after becoming a judge, outraged some in the law who should have known better, but there were saner reactions from the media and non-lawyers, and his strong liberal views and skills as a chairman were soon put to good use elsewhere.
		He worked for the Schroder Group from 1970 to 1975, when he was elected as president of Wolfson College, Oxford, a graduate college, in succession to Sir Isaiah Berlin.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1464411,00.html (826 words)

	Isaiah Berlin.htm
		Sir Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga in 1909 and died in the United Kingdom in 1997.
		In 1915 the family moved to Petrograd and from Petrograd to England in 1921.
		Sir Isaiah Berlin was a pupil of St Paul's school and then studied at Corpus Christi College,Oxford.
	www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org /riga/Isaiah_Berlin.htm (113 words)

	Pluralism without Relativism : Remembering Sir Isaiah Berlin (Applications of Political Theory): ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Examining and remembering the work of this Isaiah Berlin, this work readdresses the political, moral and philosophical foundations of Western democracies and their struggle with totalitarianism.
		Isaiah Berlin is heralded as one of the great thinkers of the 20th century and this editied work by a group of distinguished scholars is a formidable examination of an Humean liberal intellectual.
		The contributors debate Berlin's concepts of positive and negative liberty; disect his writing on the conflict between liberalism and totalitarianism; discuss the concept of pluralism in both its multicultural and religious manifestations; and consider the importance of pluralism in Berlin's defense of a free society.
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	Sir Isaiah Berlin
		Correspondence and papers of Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909-97), philosopher and historian of ideas, with correspondence and papers of his parents, Mendel Borisovich Berlin (1884-1953), timber and bristle trader, and (Mussa) Marie Berlin (1880-1974).
		Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909-97), philosopher and historian of ideas, was born in Riga, Latvia, of Jewish parents.
		From 1979 onwards Berlin kept two diaries, usually distinguished by the annotations 'Oxford' and 'Abroad', the contents of which largely duplicate each other.There is also a series of appointment diaries kept by his secretary from 1974 onwards.
	www.bodley.ox.ac.uk /dept/scwmss/wmss/online/modern/berlin/berlin.html (4323 words)

	Sir Isaiah Berlin O.M. 1909-1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Today we, the friends and family of Sir Isaiah Berlin, observe a private grief for the loss of one we knew and loved.
		But we are conscious that we stand in the midst of an immense public grief for one who perhaps more than anyone in our lifetime expanded the horizons of philosophy and restored our faith in the crooked timber of humanity.
		Among his other accolades, he was awarded the Erasmus Prize, the Agnelli Prize for Ethics,and a recognition that gave him special pleasure, the Jerusalem Prize in 1979.
	www.chiefrabbi.org /speeches/berlin.htm (299 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sir Isaiah Berlin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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		Sir Isaiah Berlin 1909–97, English political scientist, b.
		In The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953), Berlin explored Leo Tolstoy's view of irresistible historical forces, and in Historical Inevitability (1954) he attacked both determinist and relativist approaches to history as superficial and fallacious.
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		The wisest man in Britain In a rare interview Sir Isaiah Berlin talks to Steven Lukes (The Sunday Telegraph)
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	The Sunday Telegraph : The wisest man in Britain In a rare interview Sir Isaiah Berlin talks to Steven Lukes @ HighBeam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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		SIR ISAIAH BERLIN I came to Oxford in 1928 to Corpus Christi.
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	The guest from the future: A poem presented to Sir Isaiah Berlin, O.M., on his 80th birthday, 6 June 1989 - Computer ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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		The guest from the future: A poem presented to Sir Isaiah Berlin, O.M., on his 80th birthday, 6 June 1989
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	Dissertations, Essays on Philosophy: Sir Isaiah Berlin and Two Concepts of Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Philosophy: Sir Isaiah Berlin and Two Concepts of Liberty
		In his essay ‘Two Concepts of LibertyЃE(1958), Sir Isaiah Berlin made considerable intellectual ground on the philosophical definition of Freedom Ї notably, it was here that the archaic distinctions between ‘PositiveЃEand ‘NegativeЃEfreedom were reexamined and given a fresh, clear outlook.
		The ideas offered in his essay on the nature of these two ‘freedomsЃEprovided philosophers with such intellectual ammunition that they continue to be debated over, even to this present day.
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	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Sir Isaiah Berlin
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		British political philosopher Isaiah Berlin is best known as a proponent of secular liberalism.
		In his book Four Essays on Liberty, Berlin advocates “negative” liberty—that is, freedom from restrictions on the individual.
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