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A Very Personal Impression: Isaiah Berlin

Isaiah Berlin

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What Makes Berlin Worth Reading?

In the 19 fifties, berlin had become obsessed by vico's concept pantasia. Berlin always trasted this internally dialogical approach with ta scientific, or perhaps better, scientistic, approach to history and culture. This wasn't hostility to science like becker's heavenly city of the eighteenth century philosophers. The critique of clostrophabic societies can't be given up. We should stop hankering after utopia. we should not stop fighting for freedom and happiness.

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