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Datum: 24.08.2016
Autor: Gast
The National Gallery buy keftab Returning to Berlin’s liberalism is no bad idea when one considers the damage neoliberal faith in free markets has done in recent times. It is not difficult to imagine the disdain with which Berlin, peering through his black-rimmed glasses, would have dismissed the nonsense about liberal democracy signalling the end of history. Berlin believed that human values were ultimately incompatible and that, therefore, the utopian idea of creating a perfect society was a fallacy – hence his implacable opposition to communism. Abstract schemes, he argued, inevitably compromised the individual. Our guiding principle should be the preservation of liberty: Berlin was against the omelette – you paid too high a price by breaking the eggs.