Isaiah Berlin famously suggested that thinkers can be characterized into two groups, foxes and hedgehogs. Foxes multiply ideas, hedgehogs stretch them. Hedgehoggy thinking, based around core universal principles, has historically dominated capture research is prominent in Luck, S. J., Gaspelin, N., Folk, C. L., Remington, R. W., & Theeuwes, J. (2021. Progress toward resolving the attentional de...

O presente artigo formula alguns apontamentos sobre a dialética entre liberdade e emancipação para as tradições filosóficas do liberalismo materialismo histórico dialético na passagem século XIX o XX. Toma-se como referências essa trajetória, por parte liberalismo, os escritos de Stuart Mill Isaiah Berlin. Por socialismo, investigação se baseia fundamentalmente em Marx Engels, além Gramsci. con...

Isaiah Berlin’s ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ regards both Hobbes and Constant as supporting the negative version. Both took a favourable view freedom to live one pleases. But this shared preference arose from radically different overall philosophies. Hobbes’s support for ‘the silence laws’ reflected his happiness preference-satisfaction. Constant’s sphere absolute rights was supplemented by active...

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...

The aim of this article is to look critically at the implications gender equality concepts for individual freedom as conceptualised by philosopher Isaiah Berlin. scientific literature addressing problem and with regard public policy considerably fragmented. Based on contextual literature, will offer four that serve analytical categories. I analyse work/family reconciliation tools introduced lev...

Abstract Isaiah Berlin divides thinkers into two categories—monist hedgehogs and the pluralist foxes; for him, Marx belongs to first category. According such distinction, research approaches can be classified hedgehog approach fox approach, former highlighting unique essence of objects latter striving display various characteristics objects. Berlin, McLellan, Stedman Jones are famous their on M...