The Innate Predicament of Berlin′s Theory of Freedom and Its Way Out

The ideological orientation of Berlin′s theory of freedom is his pluralism rather than nonism. Nevertheless, because he strictly distinguishes freedom from the conditions of freedom and believes that any improvement has nothing to do with freedom itself, thus, objectively absolute antagonistic relations are formed between freedom and other values such as knowledge, equality and democracy, etc. and on the other hand, an unabridgeable gap is dug between freedom and its conditions. Consequently, his theory of freedom lands itself in an innate predicament. The way out is to put freedom itself under the practical prerequisite of freedom′s conditions anew.