Sir Isaiah Berlin, Political philosopher

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: November 7, 1997 | Copyright information

Sir Isaiah Berlin, a giant in 20th-century thought who specialized in the history of political ideas and the concepts of liberty, has died at the age of 88.

Berlin was remembered fondly Thursday as a raconteur who talked impossibly fast in a half-dozen languages, a lecturer who absorbed audiences across the world and a man who "reshaped political philosophy" with his strenuous examinations of liberty.

He died Wednesday night at Oxford's Acland Hospital, according to Oxford Univ...

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