PHILOSOPHER

Isaiah Berlin

1909 - 1997

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Sir Isaiah Berlin (6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997) was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas. Although he became increasingly averse to writing for publication, his improvised lectures and talks were sometimes recorded and transcribed, and many of his spoken words were converted into published essays and books, both by himself and by others, especially by his principal editor from 1974, Henry Hardy. Born in Riga (now the capital of Latvia, then a part of the Russian Empire), he moved to Petrograd, Russia, at the age of 6, where he witnessed the Russian Revolution. In 1921 his family moved to England, and he was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Isaiah Berlin is the 254th most popular philosopher (up from 257th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Latvia and the most popular Latvian Philosopher.

Isaiah Berlin is most famous for his essay "Two Concepts of Liberty."

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Isaiah Berlin ranks 254 out of 1,267. Before him are Shen Kuo, Imre Lakatos, Bias of Priene, Cleanthes, Adam Weishaupt, and Cratylus. After him are Arcesilaus, Roger Garaudy, Pherecydes of Syros, Donald Davidson, Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, and Euclid of Megara.

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Among people born in 1909, Isaiah Berlin ranks 21. Before him are Kwame Nkrumah, Victor Borge, Stanislaw Ulam, Mohammed V of Morocco, Li Xiannian, and Elia Kazan. After him are Talal of Jordan, Souphanouvong, Errol Flynn, Ernst Gombrich, Benny Goodman, and Magda Schneider. Among people deceased in 1997, Isaiah Berlin ranks 26. Before him are The Notorious B.I.G., Robert Mitchum, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, William S. Burroughs, and Clyde Tombaugh. After him are Hans Eysenck, Bohumil Hrabal, Roy Lichtenstein, Fred Zinnemann, Edward Mills Purcell, and Alfred Hershey.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Isaiah Berlin ranks 5 out of 323. Before him are Sergei Eisenstein (1898), Wilhelm Ostwald (1853), Mikhail Tal (1936), and Mark Rothko (1903). After him are Mariss Jansons (1943), Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948), Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (1937), Kārlis Ulmanis (1877), Nicolai Hartmann (1882), Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717), and Aron Nimzowitsch (1886).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Latvia

Among philosophers born in Latvia, Isaiah Berlin ranks 1. After him are Nicolai Hartmann (1882), Abraham Isaac Kook (1865), Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903), and Nikolay Lossky (1870).

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