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by Isaiah Berlin


  Russia: 1917 Revolution, xxvi, 169, 434–5, 604; novelists and writers in, 2–3, 423, 526–7; Herder’s influence in, 402; intelligentsia in, 420; repression in, 479; radicalism in, 505–6; image in West, 511n, 514; nationalism in, 523, 600, 604; Soviet art in, 525–6; Great Terror, 526; Pasternak on, 532–3, 535–6; reaction against modernisation, 598; 1904 defeat by Japan, 604; Churchill’s view of, 612, 624–5; Roosevelt and, 624–5; trials and purges, 629

  Russo, Luigi, 297, 300

  Ryle, Gilbert, 52

  Sabine, George H., 277–8

  Sade, Donatien Alphonse François, marquis de, 258, 389

  Sadko, 532

  Saffi, Aurelio, 514

  Saint-Evremond, Charles de Saint-Denis, sieur de, 362–3

  Saint-Réal, abbé César Vichard de, 333

  Saint-Simon, Claude-Henri, comte de: and political philosophy, 66; and human goals, 68; optimism, 137, 154, 583; historical theory, 182, 435; and administration, 191; and Machiavelli, 281; and unified reality, 328, 623; and creative epochs, 395; Comte and, 446; Herzen reads, 503; and State capitalism, 557; on social group, 586

  Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin, 380n

  Samarin, Yuri Fedorovich, 469, 532

  Sanctis, Francesco de, 275, 276, 289n

  Sand, George, 264, 510, 517

  Sartre, Jean-Paul: xiii, 11, 530; La Nausée, 538

  Sasso, Gennaro, 274

  Savigny, Friedrich Karl von, 361n, 393

  Savonarola, Girolamo, 286, 294, 306, 309, 369

  Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von: and creative spirit, 72, 124, 422; theodicy, 182; power of ideas, 192; romantic anti-rationalism, 251; on primal nature, 260–1; on purpose in natural activity, 263; patriotism, 371, 403; Herder and, 432; influence on Slavophils, 470; and knowledge, 496; accepts established order, 574

  Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von: patriotism, 371, 377; on cultural decline, 395n; admires ancient Athens, 409; on naïve manner, 414; influence on Russian radicals, 421; Herzen reads, 503, 516; Herzen takes motto from, 513; and freedom beyond reason, 564–6; accepts established order, 574; Die Räuber (The Robbers), 260, 565; Xenien (with Goethe), 377

  Schlegel, August Wilhelm von, 361n, 371

  Schlegel, Friedrich: irrationalism, 263; and Herder, 361n; patriotism, 371; influence on Russian radicals, 421; on Renaissance, 547; accepts established order, 574; on obscuring reality, 575

  Schleiermacher, Friedrich E. D., 371, 421

  Schlick, Moritz, 100, 141n

  Schlözer, Kurd von, 361, 403

  Schmid, Karl, 273

  Schoenberg, Arnold, 532

  Scholastics: and cosmic design, 178

  Schopenhauer, Arthur: and free will, 100, 117, 148n, 471; and moral freedom, 110; pessimism, 178; on liberation by death, 212; anti-rationalism, 261; on cosmic purposelessness, 263, 577, 579; influence on Tolstoy, 471

  Schubart, Christian Friedrich Daniel, 257, 564

  Schumpeter, Joseph A.: Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, 242n

  Schütze, Martin, 391n

  Schwärmerei, 561

  science see natural science

  Scipio, 288, 295, 296, 299

  Scotus Erigena see Erigena, Johannes Scotus

  Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolaevich, 532

  Seifullina, Lydia, 529

  self: understanding of, 94–5, 105; and freedom, 203–6; noumenal, 207

  self-denial see asceticism

  self-determination (autonomy), xxvii, 98–102, 203–18, 223–4

  self-fulfilment, 92

  self-realisation, 212–16

  Sel’vinsky, Il’ya L’vovich, 531

  semantics: as science, 63

  Seneca, 8n

  Sereno, Renzo, 277

  Sergeenko, P. A., soon

  Severus, Lucius Septimus, Roman Emperor, 296, 306

  Sextus Empiricus, 316

  Sforza, Francesco, 300

  Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of: anti-intellectualism, 251, 366; on artists, 362; influence on Germans, 400; and historical judgement, 406; and nature, 421

  Shakespeare, William: literary style, 350–1; reputation, 362, 389; Herder and, 369, 399, 421; and plurality of values, 426; as ‘fox’, 437; Pasternak’s knowledge of, 531, 550; Russian interest in, 539; patriotism, 589; Hamlet, 23, 50; Troilus and Cressida, 573

  Shaw, George Bernard, 137, 451, 452n, 539, 614

  Shchepkin, Mikhail Semenovich, 512

  Shcherbakov, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 528

  Shelgunov, Nikolay Vasil’evich, 440

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 264, 550, 622

  Shklovsky, Viktor Borisovich, 440n, 457n, 468n

  Simmons, E. J., 441

  Simon, Père Richard, 365

  sincerity: as virtue, 553–4

  Singleton, Charles S., 278

  Sismondi, Jean Charles Léonard de, 305, 398

  Skinner, Burrhus Frederick, 328

  slavery: and freedom, 112–13

  Slavophils (Russian): on freedom and obedience, 72; compare family and political life, 75; and Tolstoy, 469–70, 481; Maistre and, 495; Herzen and, 505, 520; Pasternak on, 532; reaction against modernisation, 598

  Smith, Adam, 51, 198, 313

  social Darwinism, 292, 378

  social sciences: scientific procedure in, 33

  society: rational organisation of, 3–5, 216–17; institutional obstructiveness, 214–15; individual in, 226–7; conflicts of values in, 238; as organism, 364

  sociology: as natural science, 18–19, 41, 185; beginnings, 183, 185–6

  Socrates, 3–4, 225, 399

  Soderini, Piero, 286, 303, 306, 309

  Solon, 354

  Sophists (Greek), 244, 314, 555

  Sophocles, 8 & n, 11, 210, 426; Antigone, xii–xiii

  Sorel, Albert, 441n, 443, 478, 482

  Sorel, Charles, 333

  Sorel, Georges, 182, 538, 575, 601

  Soutine, Chaim, 525

  sovereignty, 65, 233–4, 237n

  Soviet Union see Russia

  Spanish Civil War, 629

  Sparre, Erik, 333

  Sparta, 233, 287, 307, 312

  Spencer, Herbert: materialism, 19; and social sciences, 25; and human relationships, 75; idealism, 155; evolutionary doctrines, 378; Tolstoy on, 469

  Spender, Stephen, 628

  Spener, Philipp Jacob, 253

  Spengler, Oswald: typology, 9; and historical laws, 33; and impersonal historical forces, 124, 126

  Spenser, Edmund, 421

  Speransky, Mikhail Mikhailovich, 448, 480

  Spinoza, Benedictus de: and lack of purpose in nature, 71; and empiricism of political thought, 73; and liberating value of knowledge, 98, 154, 155, 213, 334; and free will, 100, 103, 110, 117; and autonomy, 116; on rationalism, 217, 329, 333–4; on obedience in children, 218; Jacobi on, 260; and Machiavelli, 271, 276, 293, 308; on moral values, 290, 293; political theory, 333; on human nature, 347, 350; questions Bible, 365; Herder and, 391, 432; Tolstoy and, 457; on nature and God, 562; Ethics, 103, 329; Treatise on the Improvement of the Understanding, 329

  spontaneity: as human quality, xii, 11

  Stadelmann, Rudolf, 428n

  Staël, Anne Louise Germaine, baronne de, 454

  Stalin, Josef V., 172–3, 187, 525–6, 533–4, 548, 550–1, 604, 614–15, 621, 635

  Stassov, Vladimir Vasil’evich, 402

  State, the: and interference, ix, 198–9, 201–2, 206; and minority interests, xii; goal of perfection, 12; and authority, 75, 242, 265–6; views of, 85; as term, 131n; Marxist ideal of withering away, 191; and rationalism, 216–17; Machiavelli and, 278, 288, 294, 301, 304–5, 307, 309; Herder deplores, 373, 376–7, 396–7, 400, 428; and socialism, 584; Hegel on, 591; and self-identification, 594; as unit, 600; see also nationalism

  status: as human goal, 227–31

  Stein, Karl, Baron vom, 454

  Stendhal (pseudonym of Marie-Henri Beyle), 167, 472, 478, 482

  Stephen, James: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, 200

  Ste
phen, Leslie, 364n

  Stern, Fritz (ed.): The Varieties of History, 54n

  Sterne, Laurence, 445

  Stirner, Max, 263, 507

  Stoics: ideals, 4, 211, 558; and science of politics, 69, 85; and human relationships, 75; logic, 86; on liberating value of knowledge, 91, 95, 98; on self-control, 92; and causation theory, 99; and acceptance, 103, 115, 179; and self-determination, 110, 223; on inner integrity, 209n; and rise of autocracy, 211; and Machiavelli, 284; and divine Logos, 313; and absolute principles, 350

  Strachey, Lytton, 605

  Strauss, Leo, 279

  Stravinsky, Igor, 532

  Stravinsky, Vera, 543

  Stroganovs, the, 532

  Sturm und Drang movement, xxix, 252, 257–8, 328, 388, 419, 558, 563, 565, 573, 575, 596

  subjectivism, 64, 70, 171, 429; see also relativism

  suffering: avoidance of, 14–15

  Sulzer, Johann Georg, 415, 424n

  Süssmilch, Johann Peter, 383

  symbols: and words, 381

  Tabidze, Nina, 539

  Tabidze, Titsian Yustinovich, 529, 539

  Tacitus, 51, 289, 293, 319

  Taine, Hippolyte: materialism, 19; and scientific history, 21, 34, 37–9, 55, 155; and study of human and social samples, 38–9, 43; historical view, 159; and knowledge, 496

  Tairov, Aleksandr Yakovlevich, 525

  Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de, 453, 622

  Tamerlane, 273

  Tatlin, Vladimir Evgrafovich, 525

  Tawney, Richard Henry, 240; Equality, 196n

  teleology, 23, 129–30, 132–4

  Thayer, Judge Webster, 605

  theory: and formulation of doctrines, 27

  Theseus, 288, 295, 300, 307, 309

  Thierry, Augustin, 503

  Thiers, Adolphe, 445

  Thirty Years War, in, 211, 562

  Thomasius, Christian, 365, 594

  Thomists: and science of politics, 69, 71, 85; see also Aquinas, St Thomas

  Thoreau, Henry David, 398, 583

  Thrasymachus, 270

  Thucydides, 51, 173, 270, 309, 319

  Tieck, Johann Ludwig, 263, 371, 574, 575–7; Prince Zerbino, 576; William Lovell, 576

  time: as moving river, 22

  Timoleon, 288, 295–6

  Tocqueville, Alexis de, 196, 236, 514, 583–4

  Toffanin, Giuseppe, 272

  Tolstoy, Aleksey Nikolaevich, 544

  Tolstoy, Countess Aleksandra, 522

  Tolstoy, Count Lev Nikolaevich: and need for leaders, xii; I. Berlin on, xiv; ideals, 3; on truth, 16; parodies historical explanations, 46; dismisses Marx’s doctrines, 81; on understanding and knowledge, 154, 327, 470, 486–96; and historical judgement, 158, 159n; difficulty of categorising, 437–8; philosophy of history, 439–69, 484–8, 491–2, 498; reading, 444–5; disbelieves in free will, 456, 458–60, 485, 489–90; creative genius, 465; and personal conflict, 465–7; advocates simplicity, 466–8; influences on, 468–79; anti-intellectualism, 469, 480; and Slavophils, 469–70; Maistre and, 472–91, 497–8; rejects political reform, 484; destructive force, 493–4; isolation, 498; on Herzen, 500, 521–2; Pasternak on, 531–3; Akhmatova attacks, 539, 545–6; rejects Western values, 567; discounts Utopianism, 579; Anna Karenina, 463, 486, 545; The Kreutzer Sonata, 545; Sevastopol in May, 16; War and Peace, 2, 439–42, 446, 448–50, 457–61, 465–8, 470–1, 474, 482n, 486–7, 502, 545

  Tolstoy, Nikolay Nikolaevich (Lev’s brother), 463, 472

  Tolstoy, Countess Sof’ya Andreevna (Lev’s wife), 545

  Tommasini, Oreste, 275

  Tönnies, Ferdinand Julius, 75, 424n

  totalitarianism: and authority, 268

  Toynbee, Arnold, 33, 124, 130–1, 182

  Treitschke, Heinrich von, 143, 307, 399

  Trevor-Roper, Hugh, 307n

  Trotsky, Leon, x, 13, 159, 632

  truth: as ideal, 16; and history, 17; and knowledge, 91–118

  Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna, 527, 531–2, 534, 546, 549

  Tukhachevsky, Marshal Mikhail Nikolaevich, 534

  Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich: as ‘fox’, xiv; as ‘pure’ writer, 423; and Pushkin, 437; on Tolstoy, 439–40, 451, 460, 466; on Herzen, 500; reads Hegel, 505; reputation, 511n, 514; gradualism, 520; Pasternak on, 539; Akhmatova despises, 546; discounts Utopianism, 579; Fathers and Children, 487, 521

  Turgot, Anne Jacques Robert, baron de l’Aulne, 178, 408, 586

  tyranny, xxxii, 233–4

  Tyutchev, Fedor Ivanovich, 469, 531–3

  United Nations: and nationalism, 585

  United States of America: political idealism in, 212n; Churchill on, 612; vision, 623–4; Roosevelt’s New Deal in, 629

  unity: search for, 180

  utilitarianism, 15, 223

  Utopias: and belief in attainable happiness, xxxii, xxxv, 137, 191, 313–14, 556, 568, 579; value of, 12; and fantasy, 58; nineteenth-century, 585

  Uz, Johann Peter, 370

  Vaihinger, Hans, 148n

  Vakhtangov, Evgeny Bagrationovich, 525

  Valentino, Duke of see Borgia, Cesare

  Valéry, Paul, 550, 614

  Valla, Laurentius, 330

  value judgements, 63–5

  value pluralism see pluralism

  values (cultural and moral): incompatibility and plurality, 7, 9–12, 14–16, 238–9, 244, 248, 425–6, 556–7; and human purpose, 67–8; and empirical fact, 80; and defining man, 83; Kant on, 209; determination of, 240, 242, 262–3

  Vanini, Lucilio, 323

  Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 605

  Verdi, Giuseppe, 402

  Verhaeren, Émile, 531

  Verne, Jules, 137

  Versailles, Treaty of (1919), 587

  Vesterling, Hermann, 428n

  Vettori, Francesco, 283, 299

  Vico, Giambattista: I. Berlin champions, xi; concept of history, xxix–xxx, 24, 48, 50, 56, 165n, 340, 342–3, 349–58; opposes scientific method, xxix, 334, 352, 357; and cultural succession, 7–9, 14, 247–8, 350–1, 354–5; and social activities, 19; on ‘inner’ and ‘outer’, 53; rediscovery of, 120, 393; on mathematics as human invention, 246, 341; denies doctrine of timeless law, 247–8; on understanding, 253; background, 340; on language, myths and rites, 344–9, 355, 381, 387; on fantasia (imagination), 346, 351n, 354–6; Herder and, 361–2, 405; and spirit of nation, 363; and Homeric scholarship, 365; on nature, 389; and artistic creation, 418n; on social group, 586; Scienza nuova (New Science), 7, 246, 248, 345n, 347n, 353

  Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy, 614

  Viennese positivists, 328

  Vignier, Nicolas, 333

  Villari, Pasquali, 278

  Villey, Michel: Leçons d’histoire de la philosophie du droit, 201n

  Vincent of Lérins, 327n

  Virgil, 404n, 558

  virtues: diversity of, 553–4

  Vitmer, A., 440n

  Vögelin, Eric, 273

  Vogt, Karl, 493, 516

  Vogüé, Eugène Melchior, vicomte de, 441, 482

  Voltaire, Françis Marie Arouet de: on Enlightenment, 8n; influence on French Revolution, 46; and toleration, 142; on attaining human ends, 245; Herder attacks, 252, 255, 362, 406, 411–12, 415, 434; mocks variations in laws, 256; Maistre on, 267, 284–5; and Machiavelli, 320; and unified reality, 328, 359; on history, 334–9, 352, 355, 361; and scientific method, 334–5; dismisses mythology and rites, 344n, 346, 348, 351n; literary style, 350; absolutism, 355; praises foreign civilisations, 362–3, 431; anti-clericalism, 377; and Wolff’s syllogisms, 394; condemns Middle Ages, 407, 411; on progress, 408; on cultural differences, 415; on artistic creativity, 419; and bon sens, 428; Tolstoy rejects, 484; German reaction against, 563, 574; on Muhammad, 573; and spirit of time, 622–3; Essai sur les moeurs, 335, 362, 415; La Philosophie d’histoire par feu l’abbé Bazin, 408

  Vranck, François, 333

  Vrubel, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, 532

  Vyatka (Russia), 504, 512

  Vyazemsky, Prince Petr Andreevich, 443
r />   Wackenroder, Wilhelm Heinrich, 493, 575

  Wagner, Richard, 360, 407, 516, 579

  Walder, E., 272

  Walker, Leslie, 272

  Walpole, Robert, 633

  Warton, Thomas (senior) and Joseph, 365, 400

  Weber, Max: on explanation of actions, 41; and sense of history, 56; social order, 75; and sociology of knowledge, 89; and growth of sociological mythology, 183n; on power of bureaucracy, 585

  Wegelin, Jakob von Daniel, 362, 430n

  Weil, Simone, 87

  Weizmann, Chaim, xxiv

  Wells, G. A., 361n, 386n, 427n, 433n

  Wells, Herbert George, 137, 168, 328, 334, 451, 530, 568, 614

  Weltanschauung, 23

  Whitehead, Alfred North, 559

  Whitfield, John Humphreys, 293

  Whitman, Walt, 579

  Wieland, Christoph Martin, 403, 424n 564

  Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 614

  will: and causation theory, 99–100; and moral freedom, 259; Rousseau on, 259; Fichte on, 570–2, 574–5; freedom and supremacy of, 577

  Willkie, Wendell, 634

  Wilson, Woodrow, 614, 625, 631–2

  Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 347, 363, 396, 430, 529

  Wirkungszusammenhang, 55

  Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 84

  Wolf, Friedrich August, 355, 365

  Wolff, Christian, Baron von, 359, 386, 394

  Wolin, Sheldon S., 311

  Wood, Robert, 388

  Woolf, Virginia, 451, 530, 539, 614, 629

  Wordsworth, William, 261, 565, 574

  World War II, 613–14

  Writers’ Union (USSR), 526

  Wundt, Wilhelm Max, 25

  Xenophon, 305

  Yakovenko, Professor, 441n

  Yakovlev, Ivan Aleksandrovich (Herzen’s father), 501–6

  Yashvili, Pavle (known as Paolo) Dzhibraelovich, 529

  Yeats, William Butler, 530, 614

  Yggdrasil, 312

  Young, Edward, 355, 389, 400

  Zadkine, Ossip, 525

  Zamyatin, Evgeny Ivanovich, 585

  Zenkovsky, V. V., 441n

  Zeno, 155, 557

  Zhdanov, Andrey Aleksandrovich, 545

  Zhikharev, S. P., 474

  Zhukovsky, Vasily Andreevich, 532

  Zimmermann, J. G. Ritter von, 363

  Zinzendorf, Nikolaus Ludwig, Count von, 363

  Zola, Émile, 167

  Zoshchenko, Mikhail Mikhailovich, 540

  Zweig, Stefan, 441

 

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