
A Very Personal Impression: Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin
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Berlin was unequivocally old war liberal. The end of world war too. He was a familiar sort of social democrat, non insurrectionary and semi socialist. Deeply antitotalitarian, deeply an utopian, but supportive of a state that could combine liberal, democratic politics with humane arrangements for the general welfare. Had no time then or later, for menikinbagin. But was devoted to the idea of an egalitarian, democratic, pluralist, secular, but distinctively jewish state. If we had known of cur le may's desire to launch a peemptive strike on the soviet union, let me do it, he said firmly. We would all have been terrified even
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