Two Cheers for “Two Concepts”: Isaiah Berlin’s Skeptical, Tragic Liberalism

IF 0.4 3区社会学 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Critical Review Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI:10.1080/08913811.2021.1898129

G. Thomas

引用次数: 2

Abstract

ABSTRACT Returning to Isaiah Berlin’s “Two Concepts of Liberty” offers a defense of liberal democracy that can help us come to terms with its limits, as well as the implicit tradeoffs that are an inescapable feature of politics in a liberal democracy. While critics of Berlin are right to note his neglect of Enlightenment constitutionalism, his skeptical liberalism is illuminated by comparative constitutional law, where we see how different constitutional regimes balance different values—such as democracy, liberty, and equality—in different ways that are attuned to the particulars of place and history that both Berlin and critics of liberalism insist are so important.

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为“两个概念”欢呼：以赛亚·伯林的怀疑主义、悲剧自由主义

摘要回到以赛亚·伯林的《自由的两个概念》，为自由民主提供了一种辩护，可以帮助我们接受其局限性，以及自由民主政治不可避免的隐含权衡。虽然柏林的批评者注意到他对启蒙宪政的忽视是正确的，但他持怀疑态度的自由主义受到了比较宪法的启发，在比较宪法中，我们看到了不同的宪政制度如何平衡不同的价值观，如民主、自由、，平等——以不同的方式与柏林和自由主义批评者都坚持认为非常重要的地方和历史细节相适应。

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Critical Review POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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1.30

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12.50%

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