Name: Dos Conceptos de Libertad & el fin Justifica los Medios & mi Trayectoria Intelectual
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Author: Isaiah Berlin
ISBN: 9788420689715

portada Dos Conceptos de Libertad & el fin Justifica los Medios & mi Trayectoria Intelectual

Dos Conceptos de Libertad & el fin Justifica los Medios & mi Trayectoria Intelectual

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Physical Book

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Isaiah Berlin

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Alianza Editorial

Synopsis "Dos Conceptos de Libertad & el fin Justifica los Medios & mi Trayectoria Intelectual"

Defensa encendida del valor de la filosofía política y del estudio de la historia de las ideas políticas, dos conceptos de libertad (1958) -el texto más célebre y comentado de Isaiah Berlín (1909-1997)- es también un análisis de los dos sentidos de la libertad política, el negativo y el positivo, que se resuelve a favor del primero y de un liberalismo escéptico que busca hacerse cargo del irreductible pluralismo de valores de nuestro mundo. Esta edición se completa con el alfa y el omega del autor: el fin justifica los medios (1922), su primer ensayo conocido, y mi trayectoria intelectual (1996), el último dado a la prensa: un recorrido autobiográfico sobre la evolución de su pensamiento y sobre los temas y autores que le han interesado, y que constituye, sin duda, la introducción más clara y sintética a su obra. edición de Ángel Rivero

Isaiah Berlin

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Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) was an influential British philosopher and thinker of Latvian origin, known for his contributions to political theory and the history of ideas. Born in Riga, Latvia, his family emigrated to England in 1921. He studied at the University of Oxford, where he became a fellow of All Souls College and New College, and also founded Wolfson College. During World War II, he worked as a diplomat in Washington and Moscow. He was president of the British Academy from 1974 to 1978 and received various awards for his intellectual work.

His most famous essay, The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953), interprets Leon Tolstoy's view of history through an Archilochus metaphor: “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” Berlin classifies thinkers into two types: the "hedgehogs," who structure their worldview around a single central idea, and the "foxes," who have a more scattered and multiple perspective. According to Berlin, Tolstoy embodies both roles: by his talent, a fox; by his convictions, a hedgehog.

This essay has become an essential work for understanding the different approaches to thought and history.

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