Essentialism and Human Nature. Excerpts from “Unfinished Dialogue”

Keywords: Isaiah Berlin, Unfinished Dialogue, essentialism, human nature (English title, abstract and keywords supplied by the editors)

Abstract: The text consists of the excerpts from a book “Unfinished Dialogue” by Isaiah Berlin and Beata Polanowska-Sygulska published in New York in 2006. The passages include one of the letters that the British philosopher wrote to Beata Polanowska-Sygulska in 1986, printed earlier in „The New York Review of Books”, and a transcript from a discussion between Isaiah Berlin, Beata Polanowska-Sygulska and John Gray that took place in 1988.