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Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997). Latvian-born British philosopher, one of the leading liberal thinkers of the 20th century. He was known both as a political philosopher and as a historian of ideas.

"Life can be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others."

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• A Great Man in a Grim Time

  http://www.rjgeib.com/heroes/berlin/berlin.html
  A tribute to the philosopher by Arthur Schlesinger includes a biography, reproduction of Berlin's obituary in the New York Times, and texts of many of his works.

• Isaiah Berlin and the History of Ideas

  http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/history/historian/Isaiah_Berlin.html
  A biographical essay.

• Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library.

  http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/
  Provides basic biographical outline and information on the Isaiah Berlin Papers, in addition to essays, links, pictures and bibliographies. Hosted by Wolfson College, Oxford.

• Philosopher and Political Thinker Sir Isaiah Berlin Dies

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/24540.stm
  BBC obituary from 1997. Includes an audio clip of the philosopher's definition of "liberal."

• Sir Isaiah Berlin Papers

  http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/modern/berlin/berlin.html
  Information on this archive housed at the Bodleian Library, including selected image files and a profile of the thinker.

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Isaiah Berlin

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/berlin/
  Life, thoughts and bibliography.

• Wikipedia: Isaiah Berlin

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_Berlin
  Entry from this openly-edited encyclopedia.

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