02:32:30 “we live in a world that is pervaded by lots of assumptions that we can’t fully abstract ourselves from because they’re too much of the air we breathe - they’re a part of the language we speak. although we don’t agree with the implications, if we abstract we make ourselves incomprehensible”

i want to go back and summarize a crucial section around 00:52:00. paraphrasing: “my ideas haven’t changed much since 1971. there is one area that is the exception, and that’s the centrality of the concept of freedom. i thought all these philosophers were talking about the same thing;

there were differences in conception, there were disagreements but there was supposedly one subject matter there that was central and persistent. in the 80s i tried to write a book on that, and failed completely and moved away from that view.

berlin says that people project all the good features of human life positive freedom and it becomes an inflated, distended mess - i wish he would have realized the same is true about freedom as a whole. as i was analyzing the different concepts of freedom for my book, i found 12

(authenticity, self realization, self governance, development of one’s powers, self control, autonomy, unobstructed action, unobstructed wants, unobstructed rationality, unobstructed powers, not deliberately obstructed, etc.). if you lay these out, you don’t get a nice dualistic berlinian picture,

you get a whole array of things. why don’t i simplify my life and talk about these concepts in their own right rather than projecting them into the concept of freedom and pulling them out again? why don’t i save myself the step?