Two Concepts of Liberty

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Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

Two Concepts of Liberty

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Topic

Nature of freedom Freedom

Speaker

Isaiah Berlin

Source

Two Concepts of Liberty

Medium

Speech

Genre

Philosophical literature Political literature

Language

English

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

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Original Citation

Berlin, Isaiah. "Two Concepts of Liberty." 31 Oct. 1958, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.

Current Citation

Berlin, Isaiah. Isaiah Berlin and the Politics of Freedom: ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ 50 Years Later, edited by Bruce Baum and Robert Nichols. Routledge, 2015.

One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the altars of the great historical ideals... This is the belief that somewhere, in the past or in the future, in divine revelation or in the mind of an individual thinker, in the pronouncements of history or science, or in the simple heart of an uncorrupted good man, there is a final solution.

Isaiah Berlin

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Topic

Utopianism

Speaker

Isaiah Berlin

Source

Two Concepts of Liberty

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Berlin, Isaiah. "Two Concepts of Liberty." 31 Oct. 1958, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK. Lecture.

Current Citation

Berlin, Isaiah. "Two Concepts of Liberty." Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty, edited by Henry Hardy. Oxford University Press, 2002.