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- Explores the nature and implications of Berlin’s understanding of pluralism in a dialectically original and illuminating way
- Reveals the philosophically profound aspects of his undogmatic and humanistic liberal vision
- Produces not only a deeper grasp of Berlin and several major twentieth-century thinkers, but, more broadly, a keener appreciation of the power of history and philosophy to help us make sense of our predicament
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This book sets out to identify the nature and implications of a proper understanding of pluralism in a original and illuminating way. Isaiah Berlin believed that a recognition of pluralism is vital to a free, decent and civilised society. By looking below at the often neglected foundations of Berlin’s celebrated account of moral pluralism, Lyons reveals the more philosophically profound aspects of his undogmatic and humanistic liberal vision. He achieves this by comparing Berlin’s core ideas with those of several of his most distinguished philosophical contemporaries, an exercise which yields not only a deeper grasp of Berlin and several major twentieth-century thinkers, principally A. J. Ayer, J. L. Austin, P. F. Strawson, Bernard Williams and Quentin Skinner, but, more broadly, a keener appreciation of the power of history and philosophy to help us make sense of our predicament.
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Book Title: Isaiah Berlin and his Philosophical Contemporaries
Authors: Johnny Lyons
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73178-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73177-9Published: 21 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73180-9Published: 22 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73178-6Published: 20 July 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 299
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Analytic Philosophy, History of Philosophy