The present article aims to examine Isaiah Berlin's views and ideas, and gives answers to the questions of how political goodness is linked to the concept of negative liberty in Berlin's thought,  and how his view of political goodness has formed his critique looking toward the political system of the Soviet Union. Political goodness in Berlin's thought seems to be multiplied, and from the plur...

It is now a decade since the passing of Isaiah Berlin. In these ten years his industrious editor, Henry Hardy, has collected and published Berlin’s essays and a volume of letters and prepared for publication three of Berlin’s lecture series. These lecture series have been published as The Roots of Romanticism, Freedom and Its Betrayal, and Political Ideas in the Romantic Age. Although published...

Herder has been sufficiently neglected in recent times, especially among philosophers, to need a few words of introduction. He lived 1744-1803; he was a favorite student of Kant's, and a student and friend of Hamann's; he became a mentor to the young Goethe, on whose development he exercised a profound influence; and he worked, among other things, as a philosopher, literary critic, Bible schola...

In a remarkably insightful essay on nationalism, Isaiah Berlin concluded by noting the “astonishingly Europocentric” outlook of 19th and 20th century thought. He incidentally observed political thinking time that “the peoples Africa Asia are discussed either as wards or victims Europeans, but seldom, if ever, in their own right, with histories cultures own”.1 The process decolonisation, well un...