When1: 1969
When2: 1992
Who: Isaiah Berlin [Berlin, Isaiah]
What: historian/philosopher
Where: Latvia/England
works\ Four Essays on Liberty [1969]; Vico and Herder [1976]; Russian Thinkers [1978]; Against the Current [1980]; Crooked Timber of Humanity [1992]; The Hedgehog and the Fox
Detail: He lived 1909 to ?, contributed to ordinary-language philosophy at Oxford, and wrote about counterfactual conditionals. History aids understanding, because phenomena always have personal and unique aspects {historicism, Berlin}. Hedgehogs have one reaction. Foxes have many possible reactions. Life's purposes have no unity. People can have positive liberty or negative liberty.
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