01610nam a22002537a 4500 20220726161628.0 220726b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0192830279 AL English 23 192 BERC Isalah Berlin 53414 Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays Oxford Oxford University Press 1980 xviii,206 p. PB 19.5x12.5 cm. The goal of philosophy is always the same, to assist men to understand themselves and thus to operate in the open, not wildly in the dark."--Isaiah Berlin This volume of Isaiah Berlin's essays presents the sweep of his contributions to philosophy from his early participation in the debates surrounding logical positivism to his later work, which more evidently reflects his life-long interest in political theory, the history of ideas, and the philosophy of history. Here Berlin describes his view of the nature of philosophy, and of its main task: to uncover the various models and presuppositions--the concepts and categories--that men bring to their existence and that help form that existence. Throughout, his writing is informed by his intense consciousness of the plurality of values, the nature of historical understanding, and of the fragility of human freedom in the face of rigid dogma. Philosophy 53415 Logic 53416 Philosophy, British 53417 Philosophy, Modern 53418 BERLIN (Isaiah) 53419 HARDY (Henry) Ed 53420 ddc GF 224205 224205 0 0 ddc 0 0 OTH AL AL 2013-03-23 0 192 BERC GF01146 2022-07-26 00:00:00 2022-07-26 GF