Isaiah Berlin: 2 ideas worth knowing

2 ideas from Isaiah Berlin, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

Berlin: freedom from others isn't the same as freedom to rule yourself
In a 1958 lecture, Isaiah Berlin split 'liberty' into two rival ideas: negative liberty, being left alone by others, and positive liberty, having the actual power to be your own ma…
— Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty
Thinkers split into two types: those who know one big thing, and those who know many
Philosopher Isaiah Berlin borrowed a fragment from the Greek poet Archilochus — 'the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing' — to sort thinkers and writers int…
— Isaiah Berlin, The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History

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