{"id":3792,"date":"2020-10-31T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T08:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/?p=3792"},"modified":"2024-01-08T09:30:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T09:30:38","slug":"the-ten-commandments-of-isaiah-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/31\/the-ten-commandments-of-isaiah-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ten Commandments of Isaiah Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3792\" class=\"elementor elementor-3792\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1f51f6f5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1f51f6f5\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-71bd1dde\" data-id=\"71bd1dde\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2ceed9a7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2ceed9a7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In 2020, societies which were already challenged by the existential threats of climate change and potential nuclear conflict, fragmented by a serious breakdown in trust resulting from widespread corruption, and riven with anxiety about the speed of technological change, are now being fractured by the political and economic consequences of the COVID19 pandemic. In such times the wisdom of one of the twentieth century\u2019s most celebrated liberal thinkers, Isaiah Berlin, is needed more than ever.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ebd659 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"5ebd659\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-3795 lazyload\" width=\"788\" height=\"414\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB2aWV3Qm94PScwIDAgNzg4IDQxNCcgeG1sbnM9J2h0dHA6Ly93d3cudzMub3JnLzIwMDAvc3ZnJz48L3N2Zz4=\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Henry-Hardy-1200x630-1-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Henry-Hardy-1200x630-1-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Henry-Hardy-1200x630-1-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Henry-Hardy-1200x630-1-150x79.png 150w, https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Henry-Hardy-1200x630-1-450x236.png 450w, https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Henry-Hardy-1200x630-1.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Henry-Hardy-1200x630-1-1024x538.png\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1d4a9d7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1d4a9d7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>On Wednesday 14 October 2020, at the\u00a0<strong>National Liberal Club<\/strong>\u00a0in London, Dr Henry Hardy delivered Liberal International\u2019s 20th Anniversary Isaiah Berlin lecture \u2013\u00a0<strong>The Ten Commandments of Isaiah Berlin<\/strong>.<\/p><p>The event started with opening remarks from\u00a0<strong>Dr Hakima el Hait\u00e9<\/strong>, the 14th President of Liberal International followed by the lecture from\u00a0<strong>Dr Henry Hardy<\/strong>,\u00a0who is the editor or co-editor of some eighteen volumes of Isaiah Berlin\u2019s writings and four volumes of his letters, as well as being an author in his own right. There was then a conversation with\u00a0<strong>Lord John Alderdice<\/strong>, President of Honour of Liberal International, exploring further Dr Hardy\u2019s very extensive understanding and experience of the work of Isaiah Berlin.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-67d9c5d elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"67d9c5d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;youtube_url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=hr9tRObhc90&quot;,&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;youtube&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-video\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, societies which were already challenged by the existential threats of climate change and potential nuclear conflict, fragmented by a serious breakdown in trust resulting from widespread corruption, and riven with anxiety about the speed of technological change, are now being fractured by the political and economic consequences of the COVID19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liberalism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3792"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3801,"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions\/3801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}