Freedom and its Betrayal (The Six Enemies of Human Freedom)

Author: (British) Isaiah Berlin, translated by Zhao Guoxin
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Publishing Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This book was originally a series of lectures delivered by Isaiah Berlin on BBC Radio Third Programme in 1952. Starting from the basic theory of liberalism, he discussed the views of modern famous thinkers such as Helvetius, Rousseau, Fichte, Hegel, Saint-Simon, and Maine on freedom and human history. In Berlin's view, except for Maine, who was an open opponent of human freedom, these thinkers held a positive attitude toward human freedom, but their understanding of freedom led to anti-free historical consequences.