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comme l’a dit Sir Isaiah Berlin, d’imaginer qu’il existe une réponse unique à la question : Qu’est-ce qu’une bonne vie ? Ainsi, n’importe quelle tentative d’imposer une réponse unique aux masses ne peut qu’aboutir à la coercition et aux camps de concentration. Les sociétés libérales modernes adoptent une conception plus limitée de l’État : il doit
... See moreJules Evans • La philo, c'est la vie ! (Poche) (French Edition)

‘Knowledge liberates,’ Isaiah Berlin writes in his ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’, ‘not by offering us more open possibilities amongst which we can make our choice, but by preserving us from the frustration of attempting the impossible.’
Adam Phillips • Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
Berlin, lui, pense que l’État devrait défendre la « liberté négative » des citoyens – leur liberté contre les interférences d’autrui – tout en les laissant poursuivre leur « liberté positive », leur conception d’une vie de bien. L’État devrait résister à la tentation de se mêler de la vie privée des citoyens et ne devrait jamais essayer de soigner
... See moreJules Evans • La philo, c'est la vie ! (Poche) (French Edition)
The aim, therefore, of patriots, was to set limits to the power which the ruler should be suffered to exercise over the community; and this limitation was what they meant by liberty.
John Stuart Mill • On Liberty
Isaiah Berlin: “Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.”
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
Vikram Mansharamani • All Hail the Generalist
... See moreThe aspect of Scott Buchanan’s life to which this memoir relates began, for me at least, with a college lecture he gave in October of 1944.
The lecture was a flight of high speculative fancy in which he tried to imagine the features of a Republic of Learning joined with a political republic.
If man is a political animal, his virtues compromised and