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It Usually Begins With Isaiah Berlin

It Usually Begins With Isaiah Berlin O N P L U R A L I S M A N D L I B E R A L D E M O C R AC Y It Usually Begins With Isaiah Berlin1 Jacob Levy intellectual relationships between Berlinian pluralism on the one hand and, on the other, the associational liberalism of There is, by now, a relatively standard way of talking about the early-20th-century British pluralists, the interest group theories turn to pluralism in liberal political theory. Isaiah Berlin, in his of mid-century American pluralists, or both.5 suggestive and imprecise but captivating way, convinced two Of our great living teachers of political theory, Richard generations that there was a plurality of fundamental moral Flathman is perhaps the most idiosyncratic and the least goods, that recognizing this was not classifiable. He has always followed tantamount to relativism, that they were his own intellectual muse, to the great Of our great living teachers of not reducible to a single theory or calcubenefit of his students and readers. political theory, Richard Flathman lus, that choices among them were And Flathman wears his idiosyncrasy is perhaps the most idiosyncratic sometimes necessarily tragic, and that on his sleeve in writing http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Good Society Penn State University Press

It Usually Begins With Isaiah Berlin

Levy, Jacob T.
The Good Society , Volume 15 (3) – Jan 7, 2007
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O N P L U R A L I S M A N D L I B E R A L D E M O C R AC Y It Usually Begins With Isaiah Berlin1 Jacob Levy intellectual relationships between Berlinian pluralism on the one hand and, on the other, the associational liberalism of There is, by now, a relatively standard way of talking about the early-20th-century British pluralists, the interest group theories turn to pluralism in liberal political theory. Isaiah Berlin, in his of mid-century American pluralists, or both.5 suggestive and imprecise but captivating way, convinced two Of our great living teachers of political theory, Richard generations that there was a plurality of fundamental moral Flathman is perhaps the most idiosyncratic and the least goods, that recognizing this was not classifiable. He has always followed tantamount to relativism, that they were his own intellectual muse, to the great Of our great living teachers of not reducible to a single theory or calcubenefit of his students and readers. political theory, Richard Flathman lus, that choices among them were And Flathman wears his idiosyncrasy is perhaps the most idiosyncratic sometimes necessarily tragic, and that on his sleeve in writing

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