Isaiah Berlin: Negative and Positive Liberty

Reading Isaiah Berlin in China1

A year before his death in 1997, Isaiah Berlin was invited by a Chinese scholar named Ouyang Kang to write a summary of his thought for the Chinese reading public. Berlin, as Dr Henry Hardy recalls, much valued this new readership, and therefore wrote his last essay, ‘My Intellectual Path’. It was first published in English in the New York Review of Books, and then included in The Power of Idea...

Cloning and positive liberty.

Feature Article: Political Theory Revisited Isaiah Berlin: Liberalism and pluralism in theory and practice

One of the most pressing dilemmas of the moment concerns pluralism and the issue of justification: how does one defend a commitment to any particular position? The fear is that pluralism undercuts our ability to justify our moral and political views, and thereby leads to relativism. As I argue here, Isaiah Berlin provides an exemplary argument concerning the ties between pluralism and liberalis...

positive and negative feminism

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Differential age trajectories of positive and negative affect: further evidence from the Berlin Aging Study.

In cross-sectional and longitudinal samples from the Berlin Aging Study, fellow researchers and I examined performance-based and self-evaluative indicators of functioning in two realms as predictors of individual differences and intraindividual changes in positive and negative affect. Cross-sectional and longitudinal structural equation models suggested that performance-based indicators (level ...