What Isaiah Berlin thinks about happiness
Philosopher and historian of ideas (1909 to 1997) whose lecture Two Concepts of Liberty (1958) distinguished negative from positive liberty and defended value pluralism.
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1 dated position, c. 1958–1969, in their own words. Our reading of what Isaiah Berlin has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsEverything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience.
↗Four Essays on Liberty (Oxford University Press, 1969): Two Concepts of Liberty (1958)archive.org All 4 from this book