Liberty: Incorporating “Four Essays on Liberty” 2nd Edition by Isaiah Berlin (PDF)

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Liberty is a revised and expanded edition of the book that Isaiah Berlin regarded as his most important–Four Essays on Liberty, a standard text of liberalism, constantly in demand and constantly discussed since it was first published in 1969. Writing in Harper’s, Irving Howe described it as “an exhilarating performance–this, one tells oneself, is what the life of the mind can be.” Berlin’s editor Henry Hardy has revised the text, incorporating a fifth essay that Berlin himself had wanted to include. He has also added further pieces that bear on the same topic, so that Berlin’s principal statements on liberty are at last available together in one volume. Finally, in an extended preface and in appendices drawn from Berlin’s unpublished writings, he exhibits some of the biographical sources of Berlin’s lifelong preoccupation with liberalism. These additions help us to grasp the nature of Berlin’s “inner citadel,” as he called it–the core of personal conviction from which some of his most influential writing sprung.

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Editorial Reviews: Review ‘For anyone wishing to have the essence of Berlin’s thinking, Liberty is the volume to have.’ John Banville, Irish Times’Liberty not only offers a comprehensive overview of Isaiah Berlin’s main topics and ideas, but also enables us to understand the development and relevance of those ideas in the context of his personality.’ Steffen Gross, DialektikReviews of Four Essays of Liberty`Practically every paragraph introduces us to half a dozen new ideas and as many thinkers – the landscape flashes past, peopled with familiar and unfamiliar people, all arguing incessantly. It is all a very long way from the austere eloquence of Mill’s marvellous essay On Liberty, with which this collection’s title seems to challenge comparison; but it is a measure of the stature of these essays that they stand such a comparison.’ Alan Ryan, New Society`These famous essays … are informed by that radical humanism, in the truest sense of that impoverished word, which has attached Sir Isaiah so closely to such nineteenth century figures as Herzen and Mill …’ Philip Toynbee, Observer About the Author Isaiah Berlin was a Fellow of All Souls and New College, Professor of Social and Political Theory, and founding President of Wolfson College. He also held the Presidency of the British Academy. He died in 1997. Henry Hardy is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and is one of Isaiah Berlin’s Literary Trustees. He has edited several other books by Berlin, and is currently preparing his letters and his remaining unpublished writings for publication.

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⭐This reviewer’s interest in Isaiah Berlin, and these essays in particular, is due to the confession Krauthammer makes in his book “The Point of it All”, to the effect that these ‘Four Essays’ transformed him from a “speech writer for Walter Mondale to a commentator on Fox News”. Berlin’s devotion to J. S. Mills and the latter’s rejection of all objective truth did lead the popular and greatly respected columnist to abandon all “monist views” of life, Charles makes it clear, however, that he had not become a “pluralist” or “relativist”, but that the “values” held by people are to be respected. A reader of Berlin’s essays might well get the impression that this brilliant thinker could be understood to be in agreement with his “convert” .The editor added a helpful summary of the essays, focusing on what appears to be the heart of Berlin’s thought. The prevailing doctrine of the natural sciences, that all events have their cause, raises concerns about the determination of human behavior. Is the consciousness of freedom human beings have an illusion, as many philosophers believe?. Accepting the physical and environmental factors involved in human volition, Berlin nevertheless rejects determinism, opting for real freedom in human choice. For some reason, he refuses to consider the psychological and emotional factors that determine the will, which the reformers stressed in their controversy with Arminius who contended that the determining sovereignty of God was incompatible with human freedom and therefore with responsibility. Perhaps Berlin’s commitment to the importance of his two freedoms,”negative and positive”, led him to ignore the fact that the will (the willed action) is always determined “according to the strongest motive”. In other words, what a person chooses to do among the options available. reveals what to him is “most pleasing” or “the greatest good”.

⭐Tiny, tiny print. Almost unreadable. Cannot make print larger with Kindle settings. Do not buy this version. This version should not be offered for free or for sale.

⭐I really wanted to read this since Charles Krauthamer talked so highly of it and I loved his writing. Turns out it’s heavy philosophy text- which I still want to tackle but the print is so small it makes it harder to keep engaged.

⭐and worth every bit of effort. Keeping up with I Berlin is very rewarding.

⭐I am a patriot and support and practice the tenets of the American Constitution!

⭐Every high school senior should be mandated to read this!

⭐NO dislikes etc. Just an excellent read

⭐If you are at all interested in the topic of personal liberty, you must read Isaiah Berlin. This book includes all of his important work on the topic.

⭐Love Berlin. The book looks lovely but let’s be honest, its not cheap.

⭐Excellent collection of Isaiah Berlin’s essays on Liberty. Very lucid writer.

⭐Il saggio sulla libertà positiva è quella negativa andrebbe fatto imparare a memoria a scuola. Fondamentale per comprendere le regole di base del vivere civileバーリンが訴えたのは、何よりも人間の本質とは何か、歴史とは何か、この世界の本質とは何か、そういった根本的問題に一つの答えがあると信ずることの危険性であった。どれほど真理かつ自明と思えるような思想も、人間の多様性の前にはいずれ崩れる時がくる。本質を一つに規定してしまうことは、多様性の抑圧を確実に生む。本質が見えれば、それとともに人間自由も獲得さる、という思想は、本質を規定することによって、その規定にはまりきらないものを『自由ではない』と判断する誤謬を生んできた。人間の無誤謬性を強く訴え、それゆえに多様性の自由な成長こそが人間進歩の最大の鍵であると訴えたミルの思想が、バーリンの文章の中に強く息づいていることは言うまでもない。It was ok

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