What is Isaiah Berlin?
[[File:IsaiahBerlin1983.jpg|thumb|Sir Isaiah Berlin (1983)]] Sir '''Isaiah Berlin''' [[Order of Merit (Commonwealth)|OM]], [[British Academy|FBA]] (6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997) was a [[British people|British]] [[philosopher]]. He was born in [[Riga]], [[Latvia]], which at the time was a part of the [[Russian Empire]]. He was [[Jew]]ish, and was the first Jew to win the prize of a fellowship at [[All Souls College]], [[Oxford University]]. ==Reputation== Isaiah Berlin was an important person of the [[20th century]]. People see him as an important thinker of [[Liberalism|Liberalist]] ideas. He was made a member of the [[Order of Merit]] and was a [[professor]] at the University of Oxford. He made a distinction between positive liberty and negative liberty. His most famous work is probably ''Two Concepts of Liberty'' (where he introduced this distinction.) He died 5 November 1997. {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Berlin, Isaiah}} [[Category:1909 births]] [[Category:1997 deaths]] [[Category:20th-century British philosophers]] [[Category:Jewish British academics]] [[Category:Jewish British scientists]] [[Category:Knights Bachelor]] [[Category:Latvian Jews]] [[Category:Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Order of Merit]] [[Category:People from Riga]] [[Category:Russian Jews]] [[Category:Latvian writers]] [[Category:Latvian scientists]] {{bio-stub}}