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Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2020
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Berlin's Converting Influence on Charles Krauthammer
By John Samsvick on January 1, 2020
This reviewer's interest in Isaiah Berlin, and these essays in particular, is due to the confession Krauthammer makes in his book "The Point of it All", to the effect that these 'Four Essays' transformed him from a "speech writer for Walter Mondale to a commentator on Fox News". Berlin's devotion to J. S. Mills and the latter's rejection of all objective truth did lead the popular and greatly respected columnist to abandon all "monist views" of life, Charles makes it clear, however, that he had not become a "pluralist" or "relativist", but that the "values" held by people are to be respected. A reader of Berlin's essays might well get the impression that this brilliant thinker could be understood to be in agreement with his "convert" .The editor added a helpful summary of the essays, focusing on what appears to be the heart of Berlin's thought. The prevailing doctrine of the natural sciences, that all events have their cause, raises concerns about the determination of human behavior. Is the consciousness of freedom human beings have an illusion, as many philosophers believe?. Accepting the physical and environmental factors involved in human volition, Berlin nevertheless rejects determinism, opting for real freedom in human choice. For some reason, he refuses to consider the psychological and emotional factors that determine the will, which the reformers stressed in their controversy with Arminius who contended that the determining sovereignty of God was incompatible with human freedom and therefore with responsibility. Perhaps Berlin's commitment to the importance of his two freedoms,"negative and positive", led him to ignore the fact that the will (the willed action) is always determined "according to the strongest motive". In other words, what a person chooses to do among the options available. reveals what to him is "most pleasing" or "the greatest good".
By John Samsvick on January 1, 2020
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