POL 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Monism, Totalitarianism, Positive Liberty
21 May 2017
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Fascination for some of these obscure early russian novelists/writers. Started his career as a philosopher and literary commentator. Most famous work: two concepts of liberty. What berlin also said that there are two ways that people think: The hedgehog knows one thing very well monism. Argument for systematic pluralism slow slide towards totalitarianism. Therefore, monism (eg. marxism) is to be avoided, since it advocates in favor of only one system/worldview. )f you didn"t allow for a myriad of ideas (cid:523)value pluralism(cid:524), you inevitably start the. Berlin wasn"t a conservative (cid:523)unlike oakshotte(cid:524) views of other intellectuals this was a responsibility that philosophers and. Believed that the intellectual in public and in public debate to correct the extreme. He was an exponent of pluralism/value pluralism. There is never an absoltue answer, a right answer. The way to understand the modern world was to have an understanding academics had to assume of the history of ideas.
