From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 00:48:36 MDT
For what its worth, I have tried reading a bit about Isaiah Berlin a few
years back (consolation of philosophy and all that) and found his philosophy
too tenuous for me. But each to their own :)
Damien Broderick quoted:
<<It is often said that his equanimity, together with his liberalism, are the
products of privilege. He has had a lucky and privileged life -- parents
who adored him, an exile that did not scar him, election to All Souls at
twenty-three, marriage to a gifted, supportive and wealthy woman -- these
have enabled him to make manifest what is often frustrated in others. But
make it manifest he did, when others might have thrown their advantages
away. There is in his temperament some impalpable source of health and
well-being. He is well in his skin, at home in the world, at ease even with
the advancing prospect of his own death.>>
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