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Ideas of Isaiah Berlin, by Text
[British, 1909 - 1998, Born at Riga. At Oxford University.]
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1958
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Two Concepts of Liberty
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p.57
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Berlin distinguishes 'negative' and 'positive' liberty, and rejects the latter [Swift]
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1965
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The Roots of Romanticism
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Ch.1
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p.1
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7662
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Romanticism is the greatest change in the consciousness of the West
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Ch.1
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p.3
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7663
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Judaism and Christianity views are based on paternal, family and tribal relations
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Ch.1
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p.4
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7664
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The Greeks have no notion of obligation or duty
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Ch.2
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p.25
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7665
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Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that virtue consists ultimately in knowledge
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Ch.6
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p.139
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7676
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If we are essentially free wills, authenticity and sincerity are the highest virtues
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Ch.6
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p.142
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7677
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Central to existentialism is the romantic idea that there is nothing to lean on
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1996
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The Sense of Reality
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p.168-9
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p.6
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The great moments are the death of Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Romanticism [Watson]
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